You can add details about the info here. You can Save your work at any time and go back to it. You will see below what it looks like.
This information is about the specific health area mentioned above. It comprises a combination of textual and video information, on our site and on external sites. We will be adding new specific health areas and further information continually.
The idea is for you to understand more about the health area you are addressing before you get too far building your action plan.
Healthy Ageing!!
What an interesting term, but what does it really mean? So many people would answer this differently. But in general terms healthy ageing is often not just about what you do in older age but more importantly what you did in younger age that affects your older age.
The government initiative on healthy ageing is all about; remaining active, eating healthy, keeping an active brain, social interaction etc.
People over 65 do need to be mindful of the above but a lot will depend on the state of you mind and body at 65 which determines how you deal with these things.
We have some information on healthy ageing on our life journey
There is information available which will help you formulate your action plan – both on our site and on external sites.
Eating healthy and hydration are the critical things you need to support healthy ageing.
Life is about having fun, enjoying life, staying fit, eating healthy and keeping the mind active. Part of that is maintaining a healthy sex life as you get older. SexDrive covers this in some detail.
Ask one of our life Experts to assess where you are now and how you can improve.
AgeUk has some great ideas and suggestions – here are 10 tips for ageing better
WebMD has lots of hints and tips for healthy living – see this article on some scientific secrets for healthy ageing
Sometimes the owner of a video will not allow the video to be played on external sites. If you see the video is unavailable on the left just click the ‘WATCH NOW’ link on the right and the video will play in a new window.
In order for you to assess what you know about this health area, we suggest using a questionnaire. This might help you understand your situation in this area, or taking it might improve your understanding of the area.
You may be able to take this questionnaire online – either here on our site or on an external site – or download it and complete it on paper – it depends on copyright (and whether we’ve managed to build it on our site!).
The ways you can take a questionnaire:
You can take a questionnaire on our site. This will score the questions automatically and give you a summary showing what your score means.
You will see our questionnaire first, possibly followed by a tab which may contain a second questionnaire (see above). If you scroll down you will see links to external questionnaire(s) or downloads if there are any. Scroll down until you get to the right place for you!
This questionnaire is from the National Ageing Research Institute Ltd, an Australian national leader in ageing research. NARI produces evidence, tools and resources to improve health and aged care systems. It’s very simple – 22 questions in all, and will only take you 5-10 minutes to complete.
This is a simple ten questions which aim to give you a bit more information about ageing.
This questionnaire is from the National Ageing Research Institute Ltd, an Australian national leader in ageing research. NARI produces evidence, tools and resources to improve health and aged care systems. It’s very simple – 22 questions in all, and will only take you 5-10 minutes to complete.
This is a simple ten questions which aim to give you a bit more information about ageing.
You can download at least one questionnaire from our site. You will have to score the questionnaire yourself.
Take the questionnaire from the Australian National Ageing Research Institute and look for our experts who can give advice on healthy ageing.
Title
Summary
Source
URL
Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.
