Active and Healthy Ageing

I will soon visit the European Parliament for the first time in my life and I am pretty excited about it. Or maybe I should only pretend that this is something I do every day? Anyway, the theme is Active and Healthy Ageing and I decided that I would like to prepare myself by imagining what I will hear on Thursday. I suppose that we will hear how important it is to create an atmosphere and discourse of activity. No-one should be passive in the future. The mindset is steered towards an active attitude to everything. No-one should say that they just sit and meditate or look at the birds flying around in the garden. With this comment I want to address the danger with talking too much about active this and that, although I know that it is a way of keeping people up and running for a longer time. To age in a healthy way is everybody's goal and we should not even have to write it out. Somehow I feel that within the word healthy there is a nuance of success. If you age in a healthy way you are a successful person. Just think about a person who could be defined as a passive and unhealthy ager....