Statistically we are all living longer and what is more we are able to enjoy our old age much more than our parents or our grandparents did. This is because we are a lot healthier than the generations before us.
The question is, how best to plan our retirement to make sure that we can make the most of our lives before ill health does eventually creep in? The key to a healthy retirement is to live life to the full for as long as you can.
Take some money out of the house using an equity release calculator and simply enjoying yourself for as long as your health allows you is one certain way of achieving the dream. Many older people are now able to do this and choose to embark on the journey of a lifetime.
Yes, you may have the odd ache or pain, the beginning of this or that, but by worrying what will happen next year or in five years time, you will worry yourself to early ill health. See the world, take up those hobbies that you have always wanted to and do what you want to do for a change instead of what other people want you to do.
Live your life as if every day was your last and experience a second youth. It is possible to see seventy year old people continue down their checklist of life experiences as if there was no tomorrow, with one old auntie skydiving and going up in a hot air balloon well into her retirement years – and I am convinced that is what kept her young.
