Reflective Report on Healthy Aging and Lifestyle for Longevity

This reflective report delves into the concept of healthy aging, emphasizing its significance in maintaining functional capability and overall wellbeing, as defined by the World Health Organization. The report explores the importance of a healthy lifestyle, encompassing regular exercise, a balanced diet, and a stress-free environment, to promote longevity and holistic wellness. It highlights various factors influencing healthy aging, such as physical comfort, social integration, and autonomy. Furthermore, the report discusses the availability of community resources and programs, like those in Australia, that support older adults in maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle. The assignment also includes a personal reflection on how to modify one's lifestyle to ensure good health and an active, independent lifestyle at the age of 75.

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What you have learned in relation to healthy aging. Explain how you would modify your
lifestyle now to ensure good health and an active, independent lifestyle when you are 75
years of age. I gained my understanding of healthy aging that could be effective to making a
healthier life. Healthy aging could be determined as the procedure of developing and keeping
the functional capability that facilitates wellbeing with respect to age. I also gained my
knowledge about healthy aging that facilitates individuals to be and do what they have cause
to value World (health organization, 2019). It includes the capability to meet their basic
requirements to study, grow, and make the decision for building an effective relationship. It is
vital to keep a healthy lifestyle to be physically active by exercising on a regular basis
(Rogers & Pilgrim, 2014).
It is effective for increasing the understanding of healthy aging. I observed that there are
many factors that might be caused by healthy aging at the age of 75 exercises, good diet,
stress-free life, and happy life. It is effective to promote healthy aging to enhance holistic
wellness and life expectancy. I improved my knowledge about different factors that might
impact on the healthy well-being like physical comfort, social integration, contribution,
security, autonomy, and enjoyment (de Frias & Whyne, 2015).
Moreover, I gained my understanding of eating healthy diets that could consider fresh fruits,
vegetables, protein, meat, poultry, and fish. In addition, it is examined that regular exercise
could make feel fresh to the individual, as it will also support to make healthy and happy
lifestyle. In Austral, there are many communities that provide facility for the old age people
for making healthy lifestyle (Chatterji, Byles, Cutler, Seeman, & Verdes, 2015). I also gained
my understanding of Golden Oldies, Townsville Seniors Swim Club, Aquatic Centre, and Tai
Chi for Over 50s. I understood that these scheme will help to encourage to an individual for
being happy in the age group of 75.

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