MAINTAIN AND INCREASE YOUR PHYSICAL WELLBEING 

It is vitally important to keep your level of ability above The Line as shown in the diagram above and there are four activities that will significantly reduce your risk of dropping below the line in your eighties and nineties 

• Increase your physical fitness - your stamina, skill, suppleness and strength 
• Look after your body - body maintenance is much more important than car maintenance
• Reduce your risk of disease
• If disease develops adapt and manage it

Activity, physical, mental and social, is of vital importance in achieving optimal ageing, that is in keeping the gap  between your actual level of ability and your best possible level of ability - the Fitness Gap- as narrow as possible. The benefits of physical activity are obvious. Mental activity increases your ability to think clearly and logically, the cognitive fitness and the social activity will help emotional fitness, not just feeling better because people have done something nice for you but because you have done something good for something for other people.