Fight the ageing process by keeping fit and active

By staying physically and socially active the quality of our lives as we age will improve. Margaret Jennings offers healthy tips to get you started.

THEY may be drawing the pension now, but many Irish women of that age were among those who shocked the nation by wearing micro minis — a first in the history of fashion — and a bold statement of defiance in the sexually liberated sixties.

Having lived through so many socially historic changes and in an age when they are expected — according to European Commission projections — to live on average 20 years beyond 65, and men 17, their life trajectory is very different than that of 60-somethings a few decades back.