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It's become a very popular debate .??
I'd say you're finished when you reach 50.
I saw Stanley Matthews in the old Div 1 playing for Stoke at Fratton Park when he was aged around 48/49 - and he only played one game in the following season 1964/65. Was he the oldest guy to play in the top flight (except Milner, of course)?
I recently researched the father of an adoptee using DNA matching and Matthews was connected to his family. He was the best man at the wedding of Ivor Powell the oldest football coach to receive an honour https://www.insidethegames.biz/artic...ch-ivor-powell
Hope this is what you had in mind....
I hope not.
If so, I've only got a decade to go
My dad just turned 80.
Swims 3 times a week, walks every day, drives and reads a lot. He has had a few health issues (stents in 2007) but he is in good shape. Although I have noticed he has started to dither quite a bit and his stories are getting longer filled with completely irrelevant details (which I find funny), I can't complain - he's still with us and doing well. Long may he continue.
Don’t plan leisure time, holidays etc, for a year, two years time do it in a month or two’s time. We go away as much as possible, there’ll be a time when age, infirmness or worse dictates that you can’t. We only got one go at it.
Well i was born on 17/8/1933 and there is no way I think I am finished, I have lymphoma and bladder cancer and according to the hospital, I am making good progress.
I have 3 children and 26 grandchildren including great-grandchildren who keep me occupied, my wife passed away 3 years ago at 86 yrs old but was very active till her death, I just came back from holiday with 16 family members in Salou Spain, we are going on a caravan holiday with 20 of the family to celebrate my granddaughters 45th birthday next month, have booked a holiday to Benidorm next May with 25 family members, and if any bargains come up between now and then we will take them. I have recently joined a men's shed, so that it keeps me with something to do, and looking forward to the school holidays to spend time with all the great-grandchildren
George Soros and Warren Buffet would argue not. They are still trading the financial markets and making fortunes into their 80s. I don’t know what the secret is, but I reckon the odds are tilted in your favour (but no guarantee) with 6 things from what I observe:
- not smoking
- not taking alcohol
- a healthy diet
- keeping yourself physically active
- mentally active
- socially connected
That is my gameplan. Life is just a game, with survival being a game of probabilities.
There are groups of older folk called super brainers they are as bright as someone in thier 20's along with life experiences that makes them very capable to compter or better younger folks .
Interesting read :
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/super-agers-brain/
Oh heck, only 3 years to go then.
Looking at the list given above:
- not smoking
- not taking alcohol
- a healthy diet
- keeping yourself physically active
- mentally active
- socially connected
I can tick all six at the moment. I do find that my memory is deteriorating though, in as much as I often do know the answer but it takes longer to recall it which can be very frustrating, hence I would be hopeless in quizzes like "The Chase"!