70 is the new 50 - if we think more positively about ageing, says neuroscience professor

Professor Ian Robertson, keynote speaker at the Irish College of GPs annual conference on Saturday.

The age of 70 "can be the new 50" if older people lose “highly inaccurate and out-of-date” ideas about what growing older feels like, a leading neuroscience expert has said.

Many people become less active as they age because of these old-fashioned ideas, Professor Ian Robertson, a fellow emeritus of psychology at Trinity College Dublin Institute of Neuroscience, said.