If you're lucky enough to reach old age, there's a whole new world out there!

We spend our entire lives working and striving to reach old age. We don't hear about people getting awards simply for reaching the end of life, yet that's our ultimate goal. To arrive at the final stage, content and in good health.

Whenever people are asked at the end of their life about what they wish they’d done more of or spent more time doing, never is it that they wished they’d squeezed in an extra few hours working, and never is it that they wish they’d saved up more money.

It is ALWAYS that they wished they’d seen a part of the world they never got to visit, that they’d spent more time with the people they love, that they’d gone after something they had always wanted to do or try, that they’d told someone how they really felt, and that they’d simply had more fun, laughed more, and worried a lot less.

Nobody wants to get old, but it's inevitable. It happens to everybody.  If you're lucky! 

Aging is part of life -- a gift of freedom. From the moment we are born, the journey begins. How we reach our later years and how we maintain our health, both physically and mentally, is crucial.

Every day is a challenge to dodge a blizzard of lifestyle choices that can get in our way and derail a normal, healthy life. 

Regarding cardiac health, the impact of time is less significant than the impact of inactivity. Hippocrates understood this about 2,400 years ago, stating, "That which is used develops; that which is not wastes away."

As Dr. Christiane Northrup says, “Getting older is inevitable, aging is optional”. The world’s population of people aged 60 years and older is growing rapidly meaning that people worldwide are living longer. But does longer always mean happier and healthier?

Since by the time people reach age 65 approximately 2 in 5 adults in this age have a disability. My research aims to deepen our understanding of successful aging from the lenses of physical activity, social engagement in the presence of a disability.