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{weblog_name} - Are You as Old as You Feel?
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If I asked you how old you are, how old would you tell me you are?  What would your answer be based on?  Most of us would answer with our chronological age.  But many of us would add a different answer, as this woman did: “I’m 79, but I feel like I’m 37.”  This second age is based on feeling, on how we feel “inside.”  How old we feel has been called our “subjective age.”  A recent study at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research yielded a striking finding: there is a 13-year gap between how older adults feel and how old they really are!  Psychologist Jacqui Smith, co-author of the study, says, “When people reach age 25, and certainly by age 30, they start to feel younger…. The gap between our subjective and real ages only… read more