While the list of advantages for staying at home versus entering a retirement village are vast there is one very big reason that many people or families fail to realise until it’s too late – keeping your beloved family pet. Science has proven the health benefits of owning and cat and dog from keeping fit […]
While I talked about the importance of regular physical exercise as we age in my first blog I am going to take it a step further and talk about the importance of keeping mentally fit and how certain activities in particular have been proven to do both – keep mind and body stimulated. Researchers have […]
Some people believe that physical fitness is no longer appropriate, older people are frail and weak and exercise is indead a health hazardous. This of course is incorrect and almost half of the population over 50 years of age experience physical decline and ill health as a result of no exercise.