Advanced Adults https://www.advancedadults.com/ Aging is not the end of the world Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:32:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.advancedadults.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-logo--32x32.webp Advanced Adults https://www.advancedadults.com/ 32 32 How Long Distance Walking After 60 Led Me to London https://www.advancedadults.com/long-distance-walking-after-60/ https://www.advancedadults.com/long-distance-walking-after-60/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:31:23 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=605 Most Saturdays, you’ll find me somewhere along a footpath with a flask in my rucksack. These days, my weekend walks cover anywhere from 10 to 15 kilometres. Not long ago, that distance would have sounded mad to me. Recently, though, I went even further and walked a half marathon through London at night. That night […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/long-distance-walking-after-60/feed/ 0 Why I’m Training My Grip Strength After 60 https://www.advancedadults.com/grip-strength-after-60/ https://www.advancedadults.com/grip-strength-after-60/#respond Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:04:44 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=594 A stubborn jar of pickled onions beat me last month. I twisted, tapped the lid on the worktop, and finally ran it under the hot tap. Even then, it took a tea towel and a fair bit of muttering. Small moment, but it bothered me. For a while now, I’ve been lifting weights, yet my […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/grip-strength-after-60/feed/ 0 Easing Loneliness After 60: Small Steps That Help https://www.advancedadults.com/easing-loneliness-after-60/ https://www.advancedadults.com/easing-loneliness-after-60/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:01:59 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=590 Easing Loneliness After 60: Small Steps That Help Loneliness is not a character flaw, and it is far more common than most of us admit. Around 940,000 older adults in the UK feel lonely often or always, which tells you something important. If quiet days have crept up on you lately, you are not broken […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/easing-loneliness-after-60/feed/ 0 Protecting Your Hearing: A Guide for Over 60s https://www.advancedadults.com/protecting-your-hearing-after-60/ https://www.advancedadults.com/protecting-your-hearing-after-60/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:18:31 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=584 Struggling to catch words in a noisy cafe is more than a small annoyance. It turns out our ears and our brains are far more closely linked than most of us ever realise. Protecting your hearing is one of those quiet health habits that pays back in ways you might not expect, from staying connected […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/protecting-your-hearing-after-60/feed/ 0 Vitamin B12 After 60: The Quiet Deficiency https://www.advancedadults.com/vitamin-b12-after-60/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:14:43 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=580 You can eat plenty of B12 and still run short of it. That sounds contradictory, yet it is exactly what happens to a great many of us as we age. The problem is rarely the food on the plate. The problem is that our bodies grow steadily worse at pulling the vitamin out of that […]

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]]> Resistant Starch: A Simple Diet Add-On After 60 https://www.advancedadults.com/resistant-starch/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:51:32 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=575 Here is something odd about your dinner. Some of the starch on your plate never gets digested at all. It travels straight through your small intestine untouched, arrives in your colon, and feeds the good bacteria living there. That clever stuff is called resistant starch, and most of us eat far too little of it. […]

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]]> 7 Summer Foot Care Tips to Keep You Moving Well https://www.advancedadults.com/summer-foot-care/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:33:45 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=504 Your feet carry you the equivalent of five times around the planet in an average lifetime. That number stopped me in my tracks. We ask so much of them, yet they tend to get noticed only when something starts to ache. Good summer foot care is one of those quiet habits that pays you back […]

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]]> 6 Simple Ways to Keep Your Eyes Healthy in Summer https://www.advancedadults.com/summer-eye-care/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:29:32 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=501 Your eyes take more sun damage in summer than in any other season. That caught me off guard when I first read it. We slather on the sun cream without a second thought, yet the eyes often get forgotten entirely. Good summer eye care turns out to be one of the easiest wins in the […]

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]]> Gardening Safely After 60: Stay Well in the Sun https://www.advancedadults.com/gardening-safely-after-60/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:45:19 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=497 An hour of weeding can burn as many calories as a brisk walk. That always surprises people. Gardening looks gentle, yet it bends, lifts, twists and stretches us in ways the body remembers the next morning. Gardening safely after 60 is something I had to learn the hard way, after one glorious Saturday in the […]

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]]> Sleeping in a Heatwave After 60: What Actually Helps https://www.advancedadults.com/sleeping-in-a-heatwave-after-60/ Tue, 26 May 2026 06:31:53 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=492 Sleeping in a Heatwave After 60 – What Actually Helps Three in the morning. The sheet is damp. The fan is pointed straight at me. The window is open but the air coming through feels like a hairdryer. Sound familiar? Sleeping in a heatwave after 60 is a different beast to what it was in […]

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