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Information and advice
Age UK
Useful when the practical questions are the ones actually keeping you awake.
Care, money, housing and health guidance for older people and their families.
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Worth your time on this question
Everything worth your time on the question: What is actually changing as you get older? What are you simply assuming will?
Six things on this subject: five things to read and one free service or course. Practical support sits first, before anything written to be interesting. Useful when the practical questions are the ones actually keeping you awake.
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Ageing: talk it throughREAD · GUIDE
Why am I tired all the time?
NHS
Useful before deciding that low energy is simply age or workload.
The common causes of persistent tiredness, including the ones worth ruling out medically.
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Physical activity guidelines for adults aged 19 to 64
NHS
A realistic baseline if you are trying to work out whether your body can sustain how you live.
What the evidence actually supports each week, rather than what fitness culture implies.
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Midlife MOT
MoneyHelper
Free and government-backed. A structured look at health, work and money, the areas that matter most for what comes next.
A free review of work, wellbeing and money for people in their forties, fifties and sixties.
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READ · RESEARCH
Mind Matters: Cognitive and Physical Effects of Ageing Self-Stereotypes
Becca Levy
Evidence that beliefs about ageing affect how people actually function. The point here is caution about assumption, not a claim that attitude overrides biology.
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Successful Aging
John Rowe and Robert Kahn
Separates ordinary ageing from disease and from disuse. The competing criticism, that it sets an unfair standard for people with illness or disability, is worth carrying with it.
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