Abstract

In this era of 100-year life spans, 60 is the halfway point of life and it is time to "change gears" in terms of health. It is time to start improving your health by "preventing frailty." If you are healthy, you will be healthy and able to do what you like 10 or 20 years from now. To get a healthy body that allows you to do what you want, it is important to first adjust your lifestyle. For people over 60, for example, are "simple food is best when you get older" and "walking more than 10,000 steps a day" OK habits? Or not? This book updates old health common sense, turns bad habits that we tend to do into OK habits, and explains in an easy-to-understand manner how to improve and optimal lifestyle habits so that we can extend our healthy lifespan.

Author’s Information

Yoshinori Fujiwara
Vice Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology Graduated from Hokkaido University School of Medicine, and worked in the geriatrics department at Kyoto University Hospital before completing his studies at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. Doctor of Medicine. Served as a researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology in 2000, a visiting researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Institute of Aging and Health in the US in 2003, director of the research team for social participation and community health at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, and director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Center for the Promotion and Support of Nursing Care Prevention and Frailty Prevention (concurrent appointments), before assuming his current position in 2023. He is researching health promotion and frailty prevention for the elderly from the perspective of intergenerational exchange and community development. He has served as a member of the Cabinet Office's Study Group on the Basic Approach to Aging Society Measures, a member of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Study Group on Measures to Promote General Nursing Care Prevention Projects, and chair of numerous local government councils.
Her books include "Until What Age Should You Work?" (Co-authored by Social Insurance Publishing), "Preventing Social Isolation of the Elderly through Employment Support: Promoting Social Participation and Improving Quality of Life?" (Edited and written by Minerva Shobo), "The Miracle of Picture Book Reading that Changed the Community?" (Supervised by Life Publishing), and "Did You Know? The Power of Nursing Assistants?" (Edited and written by Social Insurance Publishing).