This dialog has been very interesting to me. What I'm taking away from these comments is that we all have to wade through this ageing business individually. We can find help in the strangest places for individual anomalies but there is no effort made by the medical establishment to coach us in the best way forward. So we try things and decide subjectively if they are working for us and take our hits as they come. That's rather disappointing actually. I don't believe we are destined to just dribble our way in the final quarter of our lives, "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste.....". But now that I know that, I will just stay with my young trainer and physical therapist and continue trying to sort the best way forward. These two understand the body extremely well but they are in their 30's and really have minimal experience with the specifics of these ageing issues. We are addressing them as we see them. And so far the results look promising. I'm in better shape now than I was in my 60's because I'm paying attention. I was stronger then but in much poorer shape. It seems sad that anything I learn won't be passed on to others outside of my immediate group and I am sure I'll make some mistakes that hurt, but I guess this subject is not interesting enough to the establishment. They seem to have sort of kind of stopped with Silver Sneakers.