HAPPINESS IN OLD AGE
“The foundations of a hale, healthy, happy old age are really laid in early life. Now some people are old at 60, while others are mentally and physically alert at 80. It’s often said that a woman is as old as she looks and a man is as old as he feels," says a dome health guide issued by the Department of Health. “Mental as well as physical diversion is essential to true happiness in old age. Exercise, hobbies, social intercourse, and the reading of current newspapers, magazines, and good books are a definite antidote to the frequent habit of introspection and the tendency in the aged to despondency. The help-less-hopeless and the wilful-woeful atmosphere which is permitted to surround many elderly persons is conducive to premature mental breakdown. Old people regard their condition as far less serious when dressed and out of bed,” the statement says.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 2
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