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Four Important Ingredients of Old Age

My wife told me recently four important ingredients for successful old age living: Sufficient savings, Living old partner, Don’t fall, and Good and successful children to which I totally agree. The first two ingredients are obvious. There are good evidences for the third ingredients. Old bones are brittle and once broken hard to heal. Thus a fall can lead to being bedridden which may in turn lead to permanent disability or worse, multiple organ failure and death. The last ingredient is also essential. Heart aches induced by problem adult children are impossible to dismiss and difficult to resolve. It was preparation, effort, and luck that my wife and I are enjoying all three (1,2,4) ingredients and being extremely careful with number 3 as we move about daily.