Preparing for longevity—we don't need to become frail as we age

[rangerrebew]

Preparing for longevity—we don't need to become frail as we age
August 9, 2017
 

Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, highlights a review in Frontiers in Physiology.

"Societies are not aware of frailty as an avoidable health problem and most people usually resign themselves to this condition," says Jerzy Sacha, Head of the Catheterization Laboratory at the University Hospital in Opole, Poland. "Fortunately, by proper lifestyle and adequate physical, mental, and social activities, one may prevent or delay the frailty state."

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-longevitywe-dont-frail-age.html

[thackney]

So true.  My father-in-law quit playing golf, and everything else, because his knees hurt, and he wasn't willing to do more knee surgery.

Now at 92, he doesn't get out of the recliner except when the care givers wheel him to his bed.

[EC]

Yep. Dad's pushing 90 and still walks about 5 miles a day. Potters around in his workshop, does handyman work for half the street. Basically keeps busy and keeps moving, and he's about as frail as a 50 year old in great condition. Sure, he bitches about hurting some days, but sitting around hurts him more - so he claims, anyroad.