Healthy aging: To stay physically active, better start early
Unlike their predecessors, baby boomers will remain as physically and mentally active as ever, even as they retire from their day jobs.
Sixty- and 70-year-olds will continue to push boundaries, explore and experiment, travel the world, play sports, and stay healthy and fit far longer than what has been considered possible only a generation or two ago – or so we are told by an onslaught of literature, advertisements and workshops for active retirement, declaring the twilight years as the best of all times.
The truth is that many retirees find it hard to stay active at all after having lived sedentary lifestyles for most of their lives.
How active people will continue to be largely depends on the kind of jobs they are retiring from, according to Dr. Stephen Kritchevsky, a professor of gerontology and geriatric medicine and director of the Sticht Center of Aging at Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Full story of healthy aging and exercise at the Auburn Reporter
