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World Health Organization quote research that people who hold negative views about their own ageing do not recover as well from disability and live on average 7.5 years less than people with positive attitudes.
60 percent of respondents said they believed older people “were not respected.”
Attitudes towards older people were more negative in richer countries.
WHO study of 83,000 respondents aged 18 and older in 57 countries.
