A study from the UK and published in the December 2014 issue of JAMA on 6500 people aged 52 and above documented that if you felt older than your actually age that your mortality over the 8 year study period was higher. Seventy percent of this group felt at least 3 years younger, 25% felt the same age, and 5% felt older. The mortality rate for those people feeling younger than their actual age had a 14% mortality, those feeling the same age had a 19% mortality, and those feeling older had a 25% mortality!
