What activity do you refuse to give up? How do you adapt to age?

Like you, I no longer fret if it takes longer. When I get to a time crunch, I call in the cavalry (paid help) -lat fall a couple did our heavy work that would have taken us a week in 2 hours! Four hours of pay well spent. I also enlist my daughter and her family for help instead of Mother's day gifts.

About the time winter was coming to an end and the house was stuffy from the furnace, who knows what …
I was practicing scales on the piano, pretty quickly, those black & white keys were going back & forth in my field of vision. 15 minutes, maybe more. I got up to leave & whoa! Dizzy. Standing up from my #1 way of relaxing. I guess at 70, I need to slow down. So I sat in a relinet , feet up, closed my eyes and told myself, you haven’t been drinking enough water. Especially with the extreme heat we’ve had this summer, I stay inside with AC, and 1 hydrate. Hydrate! Back to basics. And I haven’t had a problem since.

thanks for sharing your new plan. at 8o ive changed to containers, river rock in the beds, and upper body training makes my hoisting of container plants easier. Squirrels kept digging in the containers, so i put rocks in the containers to thwart them. the strong winds this year knocked one hanger down 3 times so i had to make a n-more secure attachment to the porch overhang. still love gardening though less is more.

I am not willing to give up water aerobics! I’m enjoying it and know it’s beneficial, also made some friends while doing it.
Am 84 and had relatively minor issues.
Hv learned not to do activities that hurt, so have gone to lighter water weights and always quit movements when my joints act up.
I just have been diagnosed with psoriasis, am pretty sure I have psoriatic arthritis, and don’t know yet if the doctors think that the water may aggravate the rash. (My primary care physician just retired, hv a dermatologist and rheumatologist appointment coming up, probably need to have my eyes checked by my Optomologist because of blurry vision.)
In addition, I do house walking, stretching too, and I know those activities are helpful.
Like many of you say, we have to move as much as we are able.
PS. Also have learned that not all aches and pains are just old age issues, to be ignored and suffered through like I did, but that there may be a real disease behind it.

I agree! This site has been a God blessing to me. I like to share. My spouse doesn't talk very much. He has always been a man with little to say. He is a giver and it frustrates him just to go out and not walk without a walker. 🫂

you are welcome. One life on earth, make it count.

Musicals. I participate in at least one musical a year. I’ve been told by my older musicians when I was young that you keep playing and performing on stage until you fall off the stage dead. Of course it’s hard to fall off the stage when I’m in the pit playing below the stage but I understand the thought to never give up what you love.

I LOVE IT! Many of my friends have rekindled their music hobbies in retirement - once the pressures of family and career are past.
One dear friend had his guitar at his bedside while undergoing chemo for several months. Other patients loved to stop by his door and listen, the staff knew if he was having a good day because he would play while waiting for his breakfast. Sadly, we lost him in April, but his music will live on - his favorite instruments were passed on to his grandchildren.

I refuse to give up exercise and thanking God I am blessed with fairly good physiology.

This is an incredibly important topic, one of the most important, at least in my estimation as I muddle on through life. Only yesterday there was something happened in my life (which I posted about on the Neuropathy forum) that had me pounding my fist and saying, Here's something else I refuse to give up! That "something"? The outdoors. What had happened was a friend phoned and invited my partner and I to go with her to an outdoor concert. Lawn seating? I blanched. My neuropathy has given me terrible balance. I knew I'd have a miserable time getting down to sit on the ground, and an even more miserable time getting back up. A the few folding camp chairs we own tend to be tippy. So I said, No, I'll stay home. The more I thought about what I had just done … well, it was only minutes later that I turned to my partner and said, "I'm not going to spend the rest of my life indoors!" How the story ends: I still skipped the concert, but on the advice of Connect moderator John B., I purchased a camp chair that gets high marks for max stability on all surfaces, including bumpy, tricky, grass-slippery concert lawns. 🙂