Active elderly live independently and avoid social care

Active elderly live independently and avoid social care Greater encouragement of older people to keep physically active would allow them to live more independently and could also reduce the need for social care, saving money, experts have argued in the BMJ this morning. In their joint analysis, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and others urge a change in attitude from seeing functional decline and the need for social care as an ‘inevitable’ consequence of ageing to regarding it as avoidable; and they call on national and local organisations to act to encourage opportunities for people to be active, incorporating this aim into built environments and transport. OnMedica