Here are a few books that offer tips to staying healthy, happy and energetic while looking forward to your 100th birthday. Scott-Gauthier includes suggestions on both preventing the effects of aging, and reversing them, like how to return your hair to its natural color with massive doses of B vitamins. This five-chapter book includes tips to increasing longevity, ranging from improving outlook to the role of vitamins and hormones, to choosing a good doctor. Inlander and Kelly also stress the importance of quality medical care, insurance coverage and dietary modes that boost immunity. They offer health-based advice, such as ways to reduce the odds of heart disease, and more personal pearls of wisdom, like owning a pet.
Retirees talk about the opportunities, needs, problems and challenges that retirement can bring.
Instead of being bored, these retirees found quite the opposite by spending time on volunteer work, travel and community involvement. Retirement is the time to tend that garden, finish that quilt, spend more time with loved ones or get on an exercise program. Others concentrated on making a difference by recording books on tape for blind people, conducting missionary work, visiting patients in nursing homes and hospitals, teaching Sunday school and delivering meals to shut-ins. The book includes pictures, facts, financial information and anecdotes. In one chapter, the couple tells a funny story about volunteering as campground hosts in Yosemite National Park in an area geared for tent camping.