Why Everything You Think About Aging May Be Wrong Summary

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This article, “Why Everything You Think About Aging May Be Wrong”, by Anne Tergesen explained what we don’t know about aging. This article was able to describe and explain some of the misconception we have about the aging process. What was shared through the reading is that not everything declines with age as we think. Researchers have found that friendships tend to grow more intimate with age as older adults choose what is more important to them. It was also shared that although the brain ability may decline in processing information, however research has shown that the brain does enhance productivity and creativity. Having your brain reciricut to develop more productivity and creativity skills can reinforce emotions of positivity rather negative emotions, memoires, and stimuli. …show more content…
Such as the cognitive ability, not all cognitive skills decline. One may have the cognitive skills to recall but like an older computer, described by Professor Salterhouse of Virginia it will take longer for the older adult to retrieve that information. When this happen many will jump to the conclusion that one has dementia. Another myth that was covered within the article was that older workers are less productive. That is not true as stated from the reading that workers 55 or older make up 22% of the United States labor force, compared to 12% with the year of 1992. Harvey Sterns, the director of the Institute of Life-Span Development and Gerontology of University of Akron, has stated there is no relationship between age and job performance. With this myth being nipped, a case of this would be the Merecedes-Beanz cooperation and it assembly line. They have stated their older workers are found more equipped then their younger workers. The older workers are much more prone from making a mistake or committing fewer severe