Living to 100 Blog: Staying Young at Heart and Young at Mind
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A Quick Guide on What Downsizing Seniors Should Do with Their Homes
Frequently, with advancing age, we face the likelihood of downsizing and the probability of selling our home. If you've decided to sell, the question of what you should do with the home you’re leaving must be weighing on your mind. Since your home is considered to be an important part of your estate planning, you need all the relevant information that can help you make the right decision.
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Meaning and Purpose in Life as A Source of Longevity and Successful Aging: Join the Livingto100.Club
The Brief Story of Orville Roberts and Julia Hawkins
There was a recent article on the Growing Bolder website about a man who began running at the age of 50, for the first time ever. In 2008, he entered his first national running competition, and subsequently set 20 world records for older runners, including American and world records in the 90-94 and the 95-99 age ranges. His name was Orville Roberts. He passed away at age 101 earlier this month. However, he lived a remarkable 100+ years. His background includes serving as a fighter pilot in WW II and the Korean War, and then a 31-year career ...
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Sports in Old Age - Successful Aging Means We Are Always Creating; Join the Livingto100.Club
Successful aging means we are always creating new roles. Sometimes, it's helpful to look back at our lives and see a series of chapters unfolding. These are a succession of events or milestones that mark our journey, like graduation, marriage, birth of children, promotions, retirement, death of a spouse, and on and on. These milestones serve as chapters in our life story.
With each new milestone, we look at starting a new chapter, whether intended or ...
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5 Healthy Habits To Add to Your Life for Longevity and Successful Aging: Join the Livingto100.Club
It isn’t uncommon to hear people joking about turning 40… for the third time around or sighing at the idea of becoming a year older. Aging successfully and happily isn’t something regularly talked about or even expected, but when did we all decide that getting older was a negative thing? One must ask themselves if aging really is as bad as we all interpret it to be. With age comes wisdom and new opportunities, and as long as you take advantage of everything that comes with another year, we can all age successfully and happily. To start you on this ... -
Intermittent Fasting: What Does it Look Like and What Does It Matter to the Body? Join the Livingto100.Club
A subject that I have become interested in recently is intermittent fasting (shortened to “IF” for this article). This has become a trend for the health-conscious population as a way to not only lose weight but also, according to many research studies, reduce disease and slow down the aging process. It basically refers to eating patterns that cycle between periods of fasting and eating – eating within a specific time period and fasting for the rest of the time. It’s typically seen as more of a lifestyle choice than a diet, per se.
If one were to do a search, the articles on this topic all attest to the fact that ...
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What You Should Know About Medicare Before You Enroll: Join the Livingto100.Club
What You Should Know About Medicare Before You Enroll
Medicare is a valuable resource that was created to provide affordable care for seniors and younger people with disabilities. For those looking to sign up or who are unfamiliar with the program, the numerous letters and plan names can easily confuse you. While it might seem overwhelming at first glance, Medicare is less a foreign language than what it initially appears. Here’s a glance at Medicare to help you understand how it works and which plan is right for you.
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Living to 100 is a By-product of Making the Right Choices, Not a Destination: Join the Livingto100.Club
On our last internet Radio episode, our guest was Nick Buettner, of the Blue Zones team. He spoke passionately about the lessons that we’ve learned from the centenarians living in the Blue Zones, and how these lessons are being applied in cities throughout the U.S. One of the points our guest made is that the environments can be set up in our cities to encourage people to make the right choices in family and community, diet, and lifestyle, almost as if they are the default choice, rather than, for example, the unhealthy option being the ... -
We May Soon Have Pills to Keep Us Healthy and Living Longer: Join the Livingto100.Club
Researchers studying age-related decline have been pursuing drugs that inhibit a pathway that regulates growth and metabolism in cells. What they have discovered is that besides regulating cell growth, this pathway, referred to as the mTOR pathway, is also associated with revved up aging, and consequently, age-related health problems. So, research is now showing that drugs that slow down or throttle back this mTOR seem to be bolstering immune systems and reducing risk of respiratory disease.
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Be Prepared: Good Advice for Those Likely to Live Longer Than We Think We Will. Join the Livingto100.Club
An eye-popping statistic from the medical journal, Lancet, has predicted that many 50-year olds living in Great Britain are only halfway through their lives. In a recent book, When We’re 64: Your Guide to a Greater Later Life, Louise Ansari cites this statistic and others when writing that getting older doesn’t have to mean that it all goes downhill. But, she cautions that most of us are not ready for these extra years. Louise is the Director of Communications at the United Kingdom’s Center for Ageing Better.
What she documents in her book are strategies and tips to prepare for the strong likelihood that ...
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An Inside Look at Positive Psychology - Part Three: Join the Livingto100.Club
This is the third in a series of articles on the principles of positive psychology. The first two looked at “explanatory styles” or how we explain and interpret different events in our lives and the concept of re-framing or seeing the glass as half-full or half-empty. In this article, we explore affirmations, the process of shifting our self-talk from negative to positive. This series was originally written for those caring for older adults in long term care settings: nursing and activities staff, rehabilitation professionals, administrative staff, and the many other positions that can be very demanding, stressful, and often falling short of the job satisfaction and reward that other industries afford its employees. This current version of an inside look at positive psychology has been adapted to the Living to 100 Club readers and enthusiasts, -
An Inside Look at Positive Psychology - Part Two: Join the Livingto100.Club
This is the second half of two articles on positive psychology. The first part focused on basic principles of positive psychology and positive and negative explanatory styles. In this part, we take a look at the concept of re-framing.
First, a little background. Positive psychology examines how the average person can be happier and lead a more tranquil, satisfying life by encouraging people to identify and develop their own positive emotions, experiences, personal strengths, and traits, and reverse the focus from negative to positive.
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An Inside Look at Positive Psychology - Part One
It’s been said that psychology, historically, has attempted to understand and help people by focusing on problems and dysfunction. Positive psychology is different; it instead examines how the average person can be happier and lead a more tranquil, satisfying life. Positive psychology encourages people to identify and develop their own positive emotions, experiences, personal strengths, and traits, and reverse the focus from negative to positive.
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