VITAL Community Health Topic
The Myth of Aging
September 10th, 2019

Loss of strength, loss of mobility, loss of sex drive. These may sound like the all-too-familiar phrases of what you lose when you get old, but research on aging has definitely shown that clichés about aging are just that — clichés.  In thinking about the concept of normal aging, many current images have generally reinforced negative stereotypes of the elderly. Certain conditions do occur, but how often they happen and the seriousness of them have been exaggerated.

In today’s VITAL Health Topic, we’ll help you put to rest many of the common myths and how those stories don’t need to be yours.

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