15 Sep Staying Active While Dealing With Elderly Problems
Psychological Article on Staying Active to Deal with Elderly Problems
Elderly problems are only worrying for those ill equipped to deal with them. Like everything else in life, if you have the tools to tackle the job, you are halfway to being successful. The tools required to deal with elderly problems, however, are things you cannot always see and touch: they are the life skills we all have in our tool kits in early life but have no need for, until old age comes knocking…
We all know that the secret to a successful old age is activity because it is drummed into us over and over by those whose professional job it is to educate us on how to live an enjoyable life without all the inconveniences caused by elderly problems and those associated with advanced old age. They are right. Activity is the answer – the key to the secret of a happy and longer life.
We sometimes misunderstand the word ‘active’ to describe something exclusively physical. It is important for anyone, especially someone experiencing elderly problems, to be active both physically and mentally. The physical maintenance of the human body is hard work but easy to carry out: just buy the books or movies and do what they advise you to do! Go to the gym; take frequent walks and so on. Fitness of the mind, however, can be a tricky old thing to master and not so easy when you might have other problems to conquer.
Just as the body needs to exercise muscle to stay supple, a mind that is seldom used to its maximum capacity will atrophy and develop elderly problems as its faculties are under utilised and left to vegetate. The resources available to the elderly to encourage activity, both physical and mental, are designed to stimulate the mind and keep cells ticking over well into later life.
Mental activity need not necessarily mean joining an intellectual society or writing a thesis on brain surgery! Join the library instead and while you are about it, try out the local chess club or learn to salsa! Staying active into old age need not be an unpleasant chore and in fact you could ensure you keep elderly problems at bay simply by joining the Knitting Circle or the UFO Spotting Club! What is important is using your body and your brain (both sides, preferably) to ward off lethargy and ennui; the biggest enemies of the qualities of youth.
By staying alive in your outlook and being determined to enjoy what is left of your life, you could extend your life expectancy and stave off elderly problems indefinitely. Let someone else worry about elderly problems and use your life for something better!
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