THE SOCIAL & ECONOMIC COSTS OF INACTIVITY Part 1
Health care is enormously expensive – about £150 billion pa in the UK. Just 4% of this goes % on prevention.
LONGEVITY Part 1
This is the bottom line – how long you live. As I have banged on about in the previous blogs, I regard healthspan as more important than lifespan, but no-one wants to die sooner than necessary. As the old question goes – “who wants to live to be 90?” The answer is “someone aged 89.”
FRAILTY PART 4
That part of life spent in good health is Healthspan and is a better measure of a nation’s wellbeing than Lifespan.
FRAILTY PART 3
Increasing age inevitably brings reduction in physical fitness and the risk of dependency. Regular exercise greatly reduces this risk.
FRAILTY PART 2
Frailty and Physical Fitness Several surveys have highlighted the low level of fitness in the general population and all confirm the progressive reduction which occurs with increasing age. However physical capacity becomes increasingly important as age increases. For...