A study by researchers at North Carolina University and psychology professor Dr. Tom Hess shows that older adults’ ability to remember can significantly suffer when affected by negative stereotypes.  Review the study findings in this article from Long-Term Living.

“For example, older adults will perform more poorly on a memory test if they are told that older folks do poorly on that particular type of memory test,” Hess says. Memory also suffers if senior citizens believe they are being “stigmatized,” meaning that others are looking down on them because of their age.

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