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Feel Young after 50 Feel Young after 50 (or 60, or 70, or 80, (or 60, or 70, or 80,
or more…)or more…)
Fernando J. Castro-Urrutia, M.D.
Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist
You can’t help You can’t help getting older, but you getting older, but you
don’t have to get old. don’t have to get old.
-George Burns
I don’t think I’ll I don’t think I’ll ever live to be a ever live to be a
hundred. I’ve been hundred. I’ve been fifty for twenty fifty for twenty
years now.years now.
-Helen Ksypka
Age is a question of Age is a question of mind over matter.mind over matter.
If you don’t mind, it If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.doesn’t matter.
-Satchel Paige
How old would you be How old would you be if you didn’t know your if you didn’t know your
age?age?
-
-Satchel Paige
The secret to staying The secret to staying young is to live young is to live
honestly, eat slowly, honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your and lie about your
age.age.
-Lucille Ball
Characteristics of Feeling Young
Youthful mind
Acquiring new skills
Pursuing knowledge for its own sake
I concentrate on I concentrate on what I can do, not what I can do, not on what I can’t do.on what I can’t do.
Never let what you can’t do, interfere with what you can
do.
People do not quit People do not quit playing because they playing because they
grow old. They grow old. They grow old because grow old because they quit playing.they quit playing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lifestyle Changes:How to get started
Have fun Eat right Rest adequately Reduce stress Get enough exercise Take charge of your health Break bad habits
Life is ten percent Life is ten percent what you make of it what you make of it and ninety percent and ninety percent how you take it.how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Have Fun
Take a class
Socialize
Learn to play a musical instrument
Read
Be flexible
People rarely People rarely succeed at anything succeed at anything unless they have fun unless they have fun
doing it.doing it.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
Eat right
Good nutrition = right foods, right amounts
Stay fit
Fight disease and infection
Supply energy for work and play
Anyone can get old.Anyone can get old.All you have to do All you have to do is live long enough.is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
Rest adequately
Daytime– Pace, break, relax, naps
Nightime– Enough sleep
Reduce stress
Breathe deeply
Be flexible
Express yourself
Think things through
Be realistic
When we are unable When we are unable to find tranquility to find tranquility
within ourselves, it within ourselves, it is useless to seek it is useless to seek it
elsewhere.elsewhere.
- La Rochefoucauld
Get enough exercise
Medical check up
Pick an enjoyable activity
Warm up
Exercise regularly
My grandmother My grandmother started walking five started walking five miles a day when miles a day when
she was sixty. She’s she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, ninety-seven now, and we don’t know and we don’t know where the heck she where the heck she
is.is.
Take charge of your health
Regular check ups
Scheduled screening tests
Self exams
Medication adherence
In life, as in In life, as in forest fires,forest fires,
big problems always big problems always
start out smallstart out small
Break bad habits
Caffeine Nicotine Alcohol Drugs Medications Procrastination Self Talk/ Beliefs System
Life moves pretty Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop fast; if you don’t stop
and look around and look around every once in a every once in a
while, you could while, you could miss it.miss it.
-Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Seven keys to a successful life change
1. Become AWARE of negative feelings
2. DEFINE the problem
3. Listen to AMBIVALENCE
4. PREPARE for risk
5. NARROW your options
6. Take ACTION
7. EVALUATE the decision
Whether you think Whether you think you can, or whether you can, or whether you think you can’t, you think you can’t,
you’re right.you’re right.
- Mary Kay Ash
Become AWARE of negative feelings
Physical
Verbal/ Mental
If you are distressed If you are distressed by anything external, by anything external, the pain is not due to the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to the thing itself, but to
your estimate of it; your estimate of it; and this you have the and this you have the
power to revoke at any power to revoke at any moment.moment.
- Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
DEFINE the problem
Written definition
Describe barriers
Reprogram attitudes and beliefs
Focus on the here and now
Unlearn conditioned fears
I have seen what a I have seen what a laugh can do. It can laugh can do. It can
transform almost transform almost unbearable tears into unbearable tears into something bearable, something bearable,
even hopeful.even hopeful.
- Bob Hope
Don’t let FEAR stop you
False
Expectations
Appear
Real
A bend in the road A bend in the road is not the end of is not the end of the road – unless the road – unless you fail to make you fail to make
the turn.the turn.
- Victor Hugo
What is the purpose of my life?
I LOVE TO ……………….ACTIVITIES
I AM ………………YOUR QUALITIES
I WOULD LIKE TO…………...GOALS
Listen to AMBIVALENCE
Decision to change can provoke mixed feelings
Inner emotional preparation is necessary for successful risk taking
Many persons have a Many persons have a wrong idea of what wrong idea of what
constitutes true constitutes true happiness. It is not happiness. It is not
attained through attained through self-gratification but self-gratification but through fidelity to a through fidelity to a
worthy purpose.worthy purpose.-
Helen Keller
PREPARE for risk
Assess interests and needs
Goal setting
Personal strengths
Self exploration- current situation and alternatives
You miss 100% of You miss 100% of the shots you never the shots you never
take.take.
-Wayne Gretsky
NARROW your options
Assess compatibility
People who wait for People who wait for all conditions to be all conditions to be
perfect before perfect before acting, never act.acting, never act.
Take ACTION
Learning experience
Nothing is more Nothing is more rewarding than to rewarding than to
watch someone who watch someone who says it cannot be says it cannot be
done, being done, being interrupted by interrupted by
someone actually someone actually doing it.doing it.
EVALUATE the decision
Continuous monitoring
Enjoy the outcome
There isn’t a person There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t anywhere who isn’t
capable of doing capable of doing more than he thinks more than he thinks
he can.he can.
- Henry Ford
Self-evaluation questionnaire
Do I feel good about the change?
What other gains did I derive from the change?
What did I lose?
What factors contributed to the success of my change?
The greatest The greatest discovery of my discovery of my
generation is that a generation is that a human being can human being can alter his life by alter his life by
altering his altering his attitudes of mind.attitudes of mind.
-William James
Self-evaluation questionnaire
If I could do it all over again, what would I do differently?
Who was most helpful in the process?
Who let me down?
To remain fulfilled To remain fulfilled in life lead one in in life lead one in
which you can which you can continue to have continue to have
choices.choices.
The race is not The race is not always won by always won by
the fastest runner the fastest runner but sometimes by but sometimes by
those who just those who just keep running.keep running.
If you keep doing If you keep doing what you’re doing, what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting you’ll keep getting
what you’re what you’re getting.getting.
Yesterday is Yesterday is history. Tomorrow history. Tomorrow
is a mystery. is a mystery. And today is a gift. And today is a gift.
That’s why it’s That’s why it’s
called called “the present”.“the present”.