'Seventy can be the new fifty' if attitudes change towards growing old

He gave the example of men who retire early in Italy or Austria “playing boules, sitting happily with their coffees in the piazza.” 

Seventy can be the new 50 if older people lose “highly inaccurate and out of date” ideas about what growing older feels like, a leading neuro-science expert has urged.

Many people become less active as they age because of these old-fashioned ideas, Professor Ian Robertson a Fellow Emeritus Psychology at the Trinity College Dublin Trinity Institute of Neurosciences said.