YOU’VE GOT TO MOVE IT!

… or lose it. Keep-fit tactics that will keep your body functional through the long haul

By Bert Archer

FUNCTIONAL wellness?” said Dr. Ken Rockwood, the world authority on aging and frailty with the soap opera name. “Oh, dear.” He didn’t like what I’d been calling the concept I wanted to talk to him about: how to age well enough that you’re able to do the things you’d been looking forward to in your retirement, whatever age it comes; not marathons or Everest so much as lifting grandkids over your head, sitting on the floor at a restaurant in Japan or being able to take that yoga class at the foot of the Himalayas, even if you’d never actually gotten around to doing yoga before. I’d caught up with the 62-year-old Dalhousie professor after a few days of trying during a brief break from his shift in the ER at Halifax’s…

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