View all articles by Steve Vernon on CBS MoneyWatch» Steve Vernon helped large employers design and manage their retirement programs for more than 35 years as a consulting actuary. Now he's a research scholar for the Stanford Center on Longevity, where he helps collect, direct and disseminate research that will improve the financial security of seniors. Steve Vernon.
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But she was so burned out from years of training in the pool that she decided to give up swimming to pursue broadcasting. When Nyad turned 60, her mind came back to a dream that had never died. When she was 29, she tried and failed to make the swim from Cuba to the United States. Could she battle ocean currents, box jellyfish, and even sharks to do it now? But it hit me like an existential angst. What little had I done with my life? I became choked up with how little time was left.
After four failed attempts, on the fifth try, at age 64, Nyad completed the mile swim from Havana to Key West, something no other swimmer has been able to accomplish. Now, at 71, Nyad travels the world as a public speaker, inspiring others to pursue their impossible dreams. And though she fulfilled her dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida, she has decided to dream even bigger.
In , Nyad created EverWalk , a walking initiative aimed to get more than 1 million Americans walking to improve their health. The question people have to ask themselves is, what do you want to do with these last vital years of your life?
You may not be a CrossFit athlete or an Ironman triathlete, but today you can walk. And tomorrow, you can walk farther. As an 8-year-old, the Louisiana native Janice Lennard would dance around her house so often that her mother sent her to ballet school.
As an adult, when Lennard moved to California, she never stopped dancing, continuing to study alongside the Russian ballet dancer Alexander Godunov and the legendary Hollywood actress and dancer Cyd Charisse. Later in life, a curiosity about other forms of movement inspired Lennard to take yoga and Pilates classes.
After several years of practice, she was ready to help others learn. Now 76, whether it is yoga, dance, or Pilates, Lennard teaches six days a week throughout Palm Springs, California. You do what you can do. Eventually, you will catch up to everyone else. I never believed in pushing people into yoga positions. And if you're on diuretics for high blood pressure, speak to your doctor about taking your pill in the morning.
Stress incontinence — urine loss when coughing or sneezing — affects one in three women in their 60s. And women in their 60s also are more prone to experience urge incontinence an uncontrollable urge to "go".
You can reduce symptoms through bladder training, medications and pelvic floor exercises "Kegels" , which strengthen the muscles around the bladder. Find yourself running to the bathroom all the time?
You may have overactive bladder, a condition caused by bladder muscles that contract sporadically. Many people write it off as just another symptom of aging, but Kegels, meds and bladder training can help. What's Ahead: More than half of men in their 70s will have prostate issues. See a urologist if you suspect you might have a problem.
The Good News: We get happier. A recent AARP survey showed that from your early 50s on, happiness increases over time. One explanation for the trend: years of experience.
The Not-So-Good News: You might stay away from stressful situations, thereby missing out on new opportunities. Just make sure all your social interactions stay strong. They may be key to facing future challenges with resilience.
Are you worried that you're not as worried these days? What's Ahead: People in their 70s are consistently happy and satisfied with their lives, studies show. The Good News: The growth of new brain cells, called neurogenesis, continues well into your 60s.
And the capacity to learn new things stays strong, says Gary J. Kennedy, M. The Not-So-Good News: Part of your brain circuitry starts to burn out with age, but most of us compensate by relying on other parts of our brain, and our past experiences, to make decisions. In your 60s you may also find yourself slow to access memories. But the loss of memory — once thought intrinsic to aging — is often avoidable, new research shows.
Case in point: MRIs show that adults who exercise regularly have a bigger hippocampus the brain region responsible for memory and learning , which helps keep the mind sharp. So you find yourself looking into a cabinet with no idea why you opened it. In your 60s mild forgetfulness happens because the transmission of nerve impulses between cells slows down. It's rarely a sign of something serious.
While many folks in their 60s start to worry about Alzheimer's, the risk of developing this devastating disease is fairly low in this decade: Less than 5 percent of Alzheimer's patients are under What's Ahead: Real cognitive decline becomes especially prevalent in your 70s and 80s; nearly half of Americans 85 or older have Alzheimer 's.
Your best prevention plan: regular exercise , intellectual stimulation and plenty of social interaction with family and friends. Member Discounts! Save on eye exams, prescription drugs, hearing aids and more. Visit the AARP home page for great deals and smart tips. You are leaving AARP. Please return to AARP. You'll start receiving the latest news, benefits, events, and programs related to AARP's mission to empower people to choose how they live as they age. You can also manage your communication preferences by updating your account at anytime.
You will be asked to register or log in. In the next 24 hours, you will receive an email to confirm your subscription to receive emails related to AARP volunteering. One of the biggest is around computer literacy. Whilst the perception is the older you are the less familiar you'll be with modern technology, a large portion of older people are able to use computers and quite well.
A large number of YouTube consumers are retirees with around 36 percent of users clicking on the plethora of free entertainment and informational videos. Dementia is nothing to joke about. However, many jokes in the media we consume poke fun at older adults and their memory loss. Along with perceptions of older people having memory loss, is the continued stereotype of older adults being mean and rude. Everyone can be mean and rude, those behaviours aren't reserved from every older person, and studies have found that those stereotypes can further push ageist views and leave older people feeling excluded and neglected from society.
One study even found that elderly people are usually depicted very negatively in literature and not often cast in major roles in books or do not have fully developed characters. Depending on who you ask, the definition of what old is can differ depending on opinion and the age of the person being asked. If a 95 year old Finnish woman can be one of the oldest person to bungee jump, or a 80 year old can be the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest even after four open-heart surgeries and suffering a shattered pelvis, who really gets to decide if you are too old to do something?
With life expectancy growing every year in Australia, currently at Let us know by commenting in the box below. Talking Aged Care.
So, when are you considered old? In Libya, a country in Africa, the retirement age was raised from 65 to 70 years.
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