Golden years
NEW STRAITS TIMES: The country’s greying population must take healthy-ageing seriously. Healthy-ageing is not anti-ageing. The former, according to an Australian government senior citizen website, is about "on-going activities and behaviours you undertake to reduce the risk of illness and disease and increase your physical, emotional and mental health". The latter, meanwhile, is often focused on the externals: defying wrinkles and firming muscles. In the long-term, the latter without the former is a waste of time, especially when anti-ageing focuses on the superficial, such as cosmetic surgery, without an equal or greater emphasis on the deeper aspects of the advancing years.
