Re: Falls are one of the most common causes

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Hi folks:

The main message I get from this report is to remain intensely mentally active into old age. Did I get my wires crossed?

Certainly exercise to enhance balance will also be helpful, but it seems to me they are saying that physical agility (and hence avoidance of falls) is well correlated with mental agility. If so, I doubt the causation runs from better balance enhancing brain power?

It might be fun for us to put together a list of all the mentally challenging things it would be good to get in the habit of doing during retirement.

Rodney.

>> of injury and death among the elderly. > > Screening For The Risk Of Life-threatening Falls In The Elderly> > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080531085620.htm> > Just something to consider for those of you planning on 100+ yo > lifespans. Especially with possibly CRON weakened bones subject to > easy fracture. None of us want to end up severely debilitated in a > nursing home, but that's what often happens. (My 92.7 yo dad after > falling backwards in his apartment is now in one. Not sure he'll > make > 93.) Personally if I am among those reaching an advanced age, I plan > on taking some test or questionnaire (like mentioned in the > article "Screening For The Risk Of Life-threatening Falls In The > Elderly") and focusing on some kind of balancing stretches and > exercises. It's one thing to make 100, but how you arrive there is > equally important. > > a=z>