How does it feel to be sixty? I was asked this on the morning of my sixtieth birthday, not just once but repeatedly, and at the fourth or fifth asking I answered, or shouted: ‘Oh, feck sixty, what does chronological age matter? It just means you have to become more active.’
I then started to write a book called ‘Feck Sixtyy’, wondering how it would be positioned on the bookshop shelves, but busyness overtook me and it was never finished . In 2014, the year I became seventy I determined to finish the job , and then a decision was made that Sod Seventy sounded better, from the point of view of alliteration! So here it is Sod70! , paper or Kindle and remember you don't need to own a Kindle to use the Kindle software. Give it as a present and if the person who is going to become or is already 70, or 70+, is not online help them get online!
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Ageing is not a major problem
Beware the fitness gap
Ageing and disease are different processes
What you believe matters
Chapter 2: Don’t worry about ageing – take action to get fitter
What is fitness?
The Five S Fitness Programme
Designing your daily programme
Choose your timing
For the shoulders
For the neck
For upper limb strength
For core body strength
For the hips
For the knees
For stretchable hamstrings and calves
Improve your pSychological fitness
Chapter 3: The art of body maintenance
New Year resolutions
Brain maintenance
Memory maintenance
Digestive system and liver maintenance
Hearing maintenance
Heart maintenance
Bone maintenance
Joint maintenance
Muscle maintenance
Lung maintenance
Foot maintenance
Metabolic maintenance
Sexual health maintenance
Skin maintenance
Spine maintenance
Waterworks maintenance
Tooth and gum maintenance
Vision maintenance
Chapter 4: Choosing and using healthcare wisely
Too much medicine
Not enough medicine
Getting the right care for you
Be clear about what matters most to you
Ask for clear, high quality information on the risks and benefits
Do your own research
Reflect on the decision, take your time
The Decision Checklist
Right care for people aged seventy plus
Vaccination
Reducing Risk
Living healthily with a chronic condition
Use Medicines Wisely
What about alternative and complementary medicine?
Chapter 5: Living well and dying well
Mood maintenance
Planning a good death
Define yourself or be defined
The reaction has been positive and here are some examples
the Guardian
the Daily Mail
the Daily Mirror
the Today programme with the wonderful Green Goddess
I then started to write a book called ‘Feck Sixtyy’, wondering how it would be positioned on the bookshop shelves, but busyness overtook me and it was never finished . In 2014, the year I became seventy I determined to finish the job , and then a decision was made that Sod Seventy sounded better, from the point of view of alliteration! So here it is Sod70! , paper or Kindle and remember you don't need to own a Kindle to use the Kindle software. Give it as a present and if the person who is going to become or is already 70, or 70+, is not online help them get online!
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Ageing is not a major problem
Beware the fitness gap
Ageing and disease are different processes
What you believe matters
Chapter 2: Don’t worry about ageing – take action to get fitter
What is fitness?
The Five S Fitness Programme
Designing your daily programme
Choose your timing
For the shoulders
For the neck
For upper limb strength
For core body strength
For the hips
For the knees
For stretchable hamstrings and calves
Improve your pSychological fitness
Chapter 3: The art of body maintenance
New Year resolutions
Brain maintenance
Memory maintenance
Digestive system and liver maintenance
Hearing maintenance
Heart maintenance
Bone maintenance
Joint maintenance
Muscle maintenance
Lung maintenance
Foot maintenance
Metabolic maintenance
Sexual health maintenance
Skin maintenance
Spine maintenance
Waterworks maintenance
Tooth and gum maintenance
Vision maintenance
Chapter 4: Choosing and using healthcare wisely
Too much medicine
Not enough medicine
Getting the right care for you
Be clear about what matters most to you
Ask for clear, high quality information on the risks and benefits
Do your own research
Reflect on the decision, take your time
The Decision Checklist
Right care for people aged seventy plus
Vaccination
Reducing Risk
Living healthily with a chronic condition
Use Medicines Wisely
What about alternative and complementary medicine?
Chapter 5: Living well and dying well
Mood maintenance
Planning a good death
Define yourself or be defined
The reaction has been positive and here are some examples
the Guardian
the Daily Mail
the Daily Mirror
the Today programme with the wonderful Green Goddess
