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    This document discusses aging well and living a high quality life in older age. It notes that aging affects the body physically as well as cognitively and emotionally. Many Filipinos suffer from lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension at early ages, reducing their quality of life. Practicing healthy habits like exercise and diet can promote healthy aging. While a magic pill to stop aging would be beneficial, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, managing stress, social engagement, and finding purpose are also important for successful aging. The goal is to remain active, independent and in good health in older years.

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    The Art of Ageing Well

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    This document discusses aging well and living a high quality life in older age. It notes that aging affects the body physically as well as cognitively and emotionally. Many Filipinos suffer from lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension at early ages, reducing their quality of life. Practicing healthy habits like exercise and diet can promote healthy aging. While a magic pill to stop aging would be beneficial, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, managing stress, social engagement, and finding purpose are also important for successful aging. The goal is to remain active, independent and in good health in older years.

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    This document discusses aging well and living a high quality life in older age. It notes that aging affects the body physically as well as cognitively and emotionally. Many Filipinos suffer from lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension at early ages, reducing their quality of life. Practicing healthy habits like exercise and diet can promote healthy aging. While a magic pill to stop aging would be beneficial, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, managing stress, social engagement, and finding purpose are also important for successful aging. The goal is to remain active, independent and in good health in older years.

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    The Art of Ageing Well

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    Drhaidee Bass
    This document discusses aging well and living a high quality life in older age. It notes that aging affects the body physically as well as cognitively and emotionally. Many Filipinos suffer from lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension at early ages, reducing their quality of life. Practicing healthy habits like exercise and diet can promote healthy aging. While a magic pill to stop aging would be beneficial, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, managing stress, social engagement, and finding purpose are also important for successful aging. The goal is to remain active, independent and in good health in older years.

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    Dr. Haidee M.

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    The Art of Ageing Well

    Ageing is inevitable. It is one stage of our lives that most people did not prepare for and

    give much attention. Along with its physical changes, cognitive, emotional and memory are

    among those human functions that are greatly affected with ageing.

    In the Philippines, there is an alarming number of Filipinos suffering from lifestyle

    diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Cerebrovascular Accident, or Chronic

    Obstructive Disease at an early age starting from thirties to fifties. This would result to living

    their years with disability with low quality of life.

    As a doctor, I believe that practicing a healthy lifestyle such as having regular physical

    exercise and being conscious of our food intake is a great factor in having a healthy and happy

    ageing. As years passed, people have been more conscious with their lifestyle specially now that

    there’s an easy access to social media. One click away and anyone can get information on a

    particular disease or any ways that could promote healthy living. Celebrities, social media

    influencers and the internet have played a big role on promoting this campaign. People then

    follow what their icons usually do or promote.


    With all the many debilitating and degenerative diseases of our ageing population, it

    made me wonder of how we can stop time or make a pill to make humans impenetrable with

    these diseases or perhaps living longer and enjoying life without ay disabilities. It would be a be

    a game changer if this pill will be materialized and produced as what the lecturer mentioned on

    the video.

    Billions of people will greatly benefit from it. The drug company will definitely have a

    sky rocketing sales on this magic pill. Imagine being able to extend life beyond the expected life

    span of a human, experiencing ageing beautifully and healthy without the burden of debilitating

    diseases and the complications of lifestyle diseases, ditching the maintenance medications which

    cost a lot and give a burden to the family of the ageing individual.

    However, this pill should not be the only factor that we should rely on. Still I believe that

    having a healthy lifestyle, managing stress gracefully, spending your days with loved ones and

    family mean to live life worthwhile and contented.

    They say age is just a number. Super agers are individuals at their 70s or 80s but still

    their cognitive and physical functions are same or better of those of younger individuals. Being

    one definitely is having a graceful, meaningful and happy ageing. Having mental exercises,

    increasing physical capacity, engaging more socially with loved ones and important people in

    your lives could help one to become a super ager.


    Having a support group is a big factor. A supportive family, an intimate group of loyal

    friends, and a community that could support your needs and lifestyle help you achieve a

    successful, healthy and happy ageing.

    Finding your purpose and meaning in life makes a person complete. Spending the rest of

    your years in this world meaningful could make someone happy and fulfilled. Thus a lot of ager

    now are doing charity works and clicking off their bucketlist.

    Therefore to become a successful ager, avoiding disease and disability, having high

    cognitive, mental and physical function, being actively engage in life, and being psychologically

    well adapted in later life are essential to live a high quality of ageing life.

    I can see myself twenty years from now, retiring happily with my husband and fully

    grown kids and grandchildren. I would still be active and engaging to social works and continue

    to do things that I want to do in my life. I would like to see myself and my family healthy, free

    from debilitating and degenerative diseases, less or no maintenance medications, thus I’d keep

    on advocating practicing healthy lifestyle and having good relationship to people.

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