Healthy aging can look different to different people. To me healthy aging is staying active and still doing the things that you like that are of course within your realm. I play Ice Hockey and I have been for 7 years. I can safely bet that I won’t be able to go out and tear it up with my friends at 80 years old. I can say that I would be able to ice skate still when I’m older just simply at an open skate session, as I have seen it before. I think eating healthy is a big part as it’s a fact that your metabolism slows, and you can’t be eating pork rines and bags of chips all day while drinking mountain dew and sitting on the couch. Staying engaged is a big part as my owner who is 90 years old is still very active at my work, of course when there is no virus going around. Healthy aging simply is if you stay active and exercise and keep doing things you like and if you can’t do the things that you like as in Ice Hockey you can find other things. If you let yourself down and stop believing you can do things and that all your friends are gone then you won’t do well in old age. If you have nothing to do you can go to the church festivals or something to keep you occupied.
To me it pretty much comes down to staying active and keeping yourself healthy in eating. It comes down to improvising and adapting. If you can’t play ice hockey anymore at 80 years old, then you should find something else that would suit you like a hobby of some sort. That is why there are some people that are in old age and they are out volunteering and doing stuff because they are finding something else that suits them and keeps them happy and involved so that leads to them not feeling left out and not having a purpose.
Conversations on Healthy Aging 
I agree with what you believe healthy aging is. In my blog post I also talked about that healthy aging involves doing the things you like doing while also staying mentally engaged in activities. I like how you involved your personal perspective of how you hope to still be skating when you’re older and that idea of how you will be able to adjust to your aging. Overall, I agree with your definition of healthy aging!
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Your example with ice hockey was interesting. I like how you said that you even though you probably won’t be able to play it like you once did when you are way older that you can at least settle for ice skating. Sometimes we have to modify the things that we are passionate about in order to still partake in them. For example: a person who is too old to play football might become a sports commenter. I agree with you that improvisation is very important.
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