Ageing With Attitude: Go with Gray and still feel young at 70

Old people’s bodies aren’t more susceptible to disease argues a new book. It’s just the longer you live the more likely you are to pick something up along the way writes Margaret Jennings.

Ageing With Attitude: Go with Gray and still feel young at 70

SINGER Debbie Harry made the headlines on July 1 and actress Helen Mirren will be joining her in nine days’ time — both the latest poster ‘girls’ to reach their 70th birthday, still doing what they do with incredible vitality — and looking good in the process.

As we live longer in the western world, gerontologists are taking a new look at how we categorise growing old, with some studies defining the process by three sub-groups of approximate age groups: ‘young old’ 65-74; ‘old’ 74-84, and ‘old-old’ 85 plus.

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