How to healthy aging
For 65 & older
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Aging can be defined as "progressive changes related to the passing of time." While physiological changes that occur with age may prevent life in your 70s, 80s and beyond from being what it was in your younger years, there's a lot you can do to improve your health and longevity and reduce your risk for physical and mental disability as you get older. Research shows that you're likely to live an average of about 10 years longer than your parents and not only that, but you're likely to live healthier longer too. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 40.4 million Americans (about 13 percent) were 65 years of age or older in 2010 and by the year 2030, almost 20 percent of the total U.S. population will be 65+.
1. Watch Your Stress Levels
2. Stay Physically Active
3. Have a Plan for Your Later Years
4. Be Socially Engaged
5. Rethink the Idea of Older Age
6.Learning something new every day
Watch you stress levels
It’s advice we’re all used to in our increasingly hectic daily lives, but stress is a bit more complex than that. On the one hand, debilitating stress can have negative effects on our health later in life: a February study on the Journal of Gerontology found that adults who reported greater work stress in midlife were more likely to show disabilities and physical difficulties in older age.
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Stay Physically Active
If you want to remain vital and healthy well into your later years, exercise is a must. Regular physical exercises will help you maintain muscle mass and flexibility, sure, but it can also keep you feeling young. It’s mentally empowering to be able to continue doing many of the physical activities you did when you were younger some people, in fact, are more fit as older adults than they were as young adults.
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Be Socially Engaged
Maintaining active connections with our family, friends, and community is critical to staying healthy, both mentally and physically. As we ourselves get older, our family relationships change, and we have opportunities to mend fences — particularly with our own aging parents.
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Rethink the Idea of Older Age
Several aging experts are starting to lay some of the blame for our ambivalence about getting older on the pervasive effects of ageism in our society. Learning to accept the natural changes to our minds and bodies that occur as we age is a big part of combating the problem. Whether it’s the media or pharmaceutical companies, we are bombarded with messages about how we’re going to start falling apart, our bodies losing vitality and our minds losing acuity, and this makes the prospect of getting older somewhat depressing.
http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/2013-6-24-tips-for-aging-well/
Have a Plan for Your Later Years
psychologist at the University of Minnesota, points out that our ever-increasing life expectancy presents an amazing opportunity for personal growth: “Because people live longer and with greater independence, they can plan their futures more actively,” she says. Of course, that means we can’t just sit around waiting to get old and watching our bodies and minds deteriorate. We have to think about what we might want to do, whether it’s spending more time in the garden or learning a new creative skill. “[T]he most important thing we can do to ensure a comfortable and interesting old age is to plan for one.”
http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/2013-6-24-tips-for-aging-well/