Healthy aging

To me healthy aging depends on a number of factors such as where you come from, and I also think depends on how well you try to take care of yourself. The way healthy aging in the United states looks drastically different from the way healthy aging looks in Japan. They are completely different cultures and they have completely view points on how older people should live. For example Japan culture works hard to stay healthy at a younger age so when they get older there body’s will be better equipped to handle old age. While in the United States we have a much more reactive way of handling health instead of proactive like Japan. Also in Japan they focus on community and have such respect for the elderly. But in the United States often healthy aging is you live for as long as you can on your own or with a loved one, and then you progress from living o your own to living with a nurse or a family member until it comes to the point where you have to move to a nursing home.

For me I think healthy aging is staying connected to the things that make you feel young going out and enjoying life, spending time with your friends and your family, and staying active. Healthy aging is realizing that yes you may be getting older but that dose not have to stop you from living and experiencing life. When I get older I hope I can be as active as my Grandma she is 68 and still helps to take care of her grand children, still volunteers at church and still cooks dinner for my Grandpa every night she won’t let old age get her down and I ask her why she always has so much energy, and she says ” I won’t let the fear of dying keep me from living.”