Ways to improve getting older

.... ignoring it as much as possible.

Butternut -

..not having to work till you're 69....

..having a paid 'gap decade' at fifty to do all the things you want to do before the knees and hip stop you doing it...

crimson put your name on the list for replacement joints when you are 55 and you will be near the top of the list come 60! then off you go for another 30 odd yrs,job done

Take more exercise. Find a way to carry on doing some work, either paid or unpaid. I understand that retirement must seem attractive to those who have been grafting away 9-5 in the same job but not doing any useful or productive work seems to me a fast track to old age.
Get good glasses.
The notion of replacement teeth grown from stem cells is appealing - but I suspect they will be prohibitively expensive when the technology is established.

New teeth from stem cells sounds good, but in my optimistic moments I doubt they'll be too expensive... I bet the crowns and bridges and other stuff some of us have now would have seemed prohbitively expensive a generation or two ago and yet, when the time came, we afforded them.

Keep gardening - fresh air, exercise, new hopes / expectations every year, staying close to the natural life cycle.

Lots of sex

I second that susiecb

Mamie

susiecb I third it!

Yeah Susiecb - best excercise and cheerer upper you can have and you don't even have to get out of bed (unless you are looking for a bit of variety).

susiecb, nanny1, butternut, goldengran I wish! Chance would be a fine thing!

janthea where's there's will there's a way

Hello Jess! (shouted)

She's in Australia isn't she?!

Hello!!!! Waves....

What about those of us who haven't been grafting away 9-5? It's ok for us to carry on the same, isn't it?

That was to jess

Regular yoga to keep those joints and muscles supple. There's nothing like being creaky and doing the "ooh, ow" groan when you get up to make you feel and appear old And it is never too late to start!
Also drink lots of water every day to keep your skin blooming. Works for me

Or just get a toy boy

How much younger does he have to be to qualify? At least ten years?

Trust me to have read something which says the opposite about toy boys. I forget where it was (may even have been BBC), but apparently having a toy boy adds to the 'stress' of aging. Such a shame.

But you have fun while you stress out.

There was a lady in our street had a toy boy (about 28 years younger) oh I did envy her. He was always working on the house, he seemed to be able to turn his hand to anything