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by Angostura 2935 days ago
Except there's no suggestion that the people who were thinking negatively about old age actually had worse health at that stage.

The headline is rather misleading, the study suggested that where older people are more respected in a society, they tend to live longer.

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But what if countries with a better attitude towards the elderly are also correlated with a higher likelihood of being ok with their taxes going to health care for the old? It doesn't necessarily have to do with respect.
What, places like Pakistan, you mean?