REFLECT ON YOUR ASSETS AND WHERE YOU ARE NOW  

In their book  The 100-Year Life.  Living and Working in an Age of Longevity Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott  emphasise the need to reflect on your assets, not your financial assets but your personal strengths and abilities 

• "productive assets.  These are the assets that helped you be productive and successful at work or home, your skills and knowledge
• vitality assets. mental and physical health and well-being.  Included here also are friendship, positive family relationships and partnerships,    
• transformational assets.  What you have learned from the changes and transitions you have experienced. These assets refer to your self- knowledge, and your ability to adapt to new experiences."

Decide on what is important and set objectives  

Here are some objectives, not in order of priority, expressing what people mean by a good quality of life (we have given you a few blank rows to add extra objectives) Put a score beside each one from 
 
1.”it would be nice to have this but it’s not very important” to 
5 “of vital importance, life’s not worth living without it
 
Objective 
Your  Score 

• To be living in this dwelling, or a new dwelling, and not in a Care Home
• To continue to be useful to other people 
• To continue to support my family and not be a burden
• To enjoy life at least as much as I do at present
• To keep my brain and thinking as sharp as it is at present
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Now you have your plan you need to be clear about what is happening to you ; we suggest you listen to  the ten episodes on understanding ageing in our Academy for Living Longer Better