Apple Magazine - Healthy Seniors

You are never too young or too old to be healthier. Becoming healthier is often about simple choices. It’s easy to find time for a short walk, to put a few more vegetables and fruits on your plate, and to decide to drink sugary

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beverages and alcohol in moderation.

Your health will also benefit greatly from making (and keeping) friends and from broadening your horizons through reading, travelling and interesting hobbies.

Looking after your health is
something I encourage people to
do at every age, but it’s especially
important as you age. How you live
in the first decades of your life sets
the tone for how you’ll live in the
later decades. Being active in your
younger years means you’re more
likely to be active in your later years.

In this special reprint edition of

Apple, we look at healthy aging. The stories in this special issue apply to people of all ages, because we’re all aging. How we age is more than a matter of our years. It can also be a matter of how we prepare for those years: setting goals, planning our finances and making arrangements for how we would like to be cared for (see Conversations About Aging on page 21).

Our relationships also affect how we age. Having a network of close friends can extend our lives and a close, intimate relationship can take on a new lustre with time (see Sex After 60 on page 14).

As we age, we often come to the realization that we can’t control everything in our lives, but I believe that when we make simple, positive choices, we can make our lives healthier, happier and longer.