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Rosanne Leipzig

Geriatrician Rosanne Leipzig, MD, PhD is the Gerald and May Ellen Ritter Professor and Vice Chair Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and author of Honest Aging.

Oct 2, 2026

14:23
So Roseanne, are there questions about aging that people aren't asking, but they need to?
14:29
[chuckles] Um, yes.
14:34
All right.
14:34
I think the first is what are the most important things that you can cultivate throughout your life to help? And, you know, getting rid of ageism is number one, two, and three.
14:46
There's no question about that.
14:48
There is a wonderful clinical psychologist at Yale, Becca Levy, you may have read some of her work, and she really has, has nailed it, that your attitude toward aging influences what your old age will be like.
15:02
It influences your, how you do on memory tests.

6 MINS LATER

20:50
Okay.

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