What are your strategies for aging well?

It takes way longer to wear out than to rust out.

Exercise is the number one key. For the body, work out regularly. You need at least 3 days a week of good, aerobic exercise. If you want to retain strenght as well, alternate between aerobic and strength routines and work out daily. Check out this septuagenarian. And exercise your mind as well. Read, write, surf, intreract, work crossword puzzles, find new passions and study them till you are reasonably proficient in them. If you don’t use it, you lose it.

Eat a healthy diet with lots of fresh vegetables and fruits. Get adequate sleep. Stay connected and active with people. You’ll live much longer if you like living each day. Of course, there is a strategy of being miserable every day. You won’t live nearly as long, but it will seem like an eternity.

Stay well, all.

Eat plenty of vegetables and fruit, less meat and grains, and no snacks or sodas. Drink lots of water (at least 6 – 8 glasses a day) and walk at least a mile or equivalent a day. Keep your body clean and take care of your teeth.

Accept the changes gracefully.

Use it or lose it! That means head to toe and the gray matter especially. Plus a laugh a day will keep the Grim reaper away.

All the above but also just thinking young. Spend time with young people (and I don’t mean by pretending to be young and wearing clothes that are suitable for people 10 years younger or trying to be hip). I think just being around young people and their energy and pulling yourself up when you find yourself dismissing something because it is new and different. Have a go. Play with that new technology. Listen to that new music. And as @Cruiser, @Yarnlady and @ETpro said keep your brain and body active and healthy.

All of the above, PLUS I think it’‘s helpful be belong to a group that includes all ages. A class in a community college, a church choir, a community activity of some kind. Volunteer to help with a group of high school or college kids. They’re really great. A chance to talk to different people can expand your viewpoints and help your thinking stay younger. If everybody around you all thinks alike, you can become stagnant.

I’m just glad to still be walking around! After all, birthdays are like landings, any one you walk away from is a good one! (And really, who doesn’t like cake?) I think aging well is about learning what’s important and what’s not, loving up the people and beasties in your life, laughing with your buddies and treating others with respect and grace. You’re not getting old sweetie, you’re aging, yes, we all are (and that beats the hell out of the alternative), but you’re certainly getting richer with experience and smarts. I’m only sorry I didn’t have much more time last weekend to take advantage of that.
We’re much better at crosswords than the younguns are, we experienced the Beatles phenomenon from day one, and we know all the words.

And yes, it just sucks that our knees hurt all the time. That is not a plus!

Staying hydrated makes a big difference in how you feel and how your skin looks.

I’m almost terrified of growing older. I don’t take care of myself healthwise so my strategy is obviously to lose weight and from there strengthen my body somehow. Problem is I’m allergic to exercise! Another strategy is keeping my mental state alert by pursuing my creative passions. Lastly, make sure I expose myself to situations where I will end up laughing a lot.
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No plans to considering that around the 2030–2050 mark we may easily become immortal thanks to the material provided by the HeLa cells.

Thus far, all the above are great answers (right on!).
Plus..don’t sweat the small stuff.
And take a Yoga class.

I hate to call it a strategy. I prefer to call it using every minute as the valuable precious time remaining with verve, vigour, and love. Keep fit and you will be happy. Live each day as if you were still young and you will feel that way. Trite, but true.

How to live to be 100

Actually, the simple key to attaining a very advanced age is to steadfastly avoid dying.

@ETpro : – )

@ETpro telomerase? lol

@King_Pariah Telerome about it. If we figure out how to keep our telomeres from losing material during cell division, we may well live as long as the Giant sequoias.

Exercise,a decent diet, doing things you love and a sense of humor help :)

Lucille (Lucy) is right on target with her answer. I would only add a good multiple vitamen each day. I am 67 and feel like I am about 45 years old.

Staying young requires a young state of mind as well as exercise.

You are you and no one can change this, except you.

Your mind controls your body. Think young…....be young.

@john65pennington -Afternoon,John!I take supplements too :)

Exercise, sex, reading and humor

I agree, humor is important, but you have to have had it in the first place. I’m amazed at the number of people who do not have much of a sense of humor. And you can’t really teach it. They have no sense of the absurd nor of the ridiculous. I have a friend who told me that a joke situation would not have happened. I don’t think humor will be part of her old age, unfortunately.

True – just speaking about myself.

Yeah, yeah, @janbb , brag about how you’re gettin’ some! :-P

Well – we were apart for a week.

I think it’s cute that you reune with such enthusiasm!