Healthy, active, successful aging is the aspiration of every DiscoverAge Activist into the Deep years.

To write about healthy, active ageing is expected; adding ‘successful’ is probably not. It is the DiscoverAge slant, and it’s important. Historically, health happened to you. Today, you happen to health.

Health has, in many ways, become a ‘commodity.’ It is something to achieve. Healthy, active ageing is ambition. To achieve health, and to be active, requires determination and discipline. 

We can choose to be healthy or not to be healthy? It is personal choice and individual responsibility. We choose, successful or unsuccessful?