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Everything worth your time on the question: What is actually changing as you get older, and what are you simply assuming will?

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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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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, government backed, and covers the three things that actually decide the next twenty years.

A free review of work, wellbeing and money for people in their forties, fifties and sixties.

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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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