What is Healthy Aging, Anyway?
by Nina Dahlia by Melina Meza It has only struck me recently that while we�ve written about what aging is and the many ways yoga can help foster healthy aging, we�ve never really addressed what �healthy aging� is. So I thought I�d take a moment to give an overview of the thoughts that Baxter and I currently have on this topic. At this point�we�re still just discussing these ideas�we consider healthy aging to have three important aspects: Compressed Morbidity Independence Equanimity And the reason why we�re such proponents of yoga for healthy aging is that we believe yoga can help with all three of these aspects of healthy aging. For now, I�ll just give you a brief overview of how. Compressed Morbidity. Last week I wrote a post Longevity vs. Morbidity comparing the difference between longevity and morbidity. The medical term �morbidity� refers to the period of time you spend in ill health before you die. Obviously we all would like�both for ourselves and for our loved ones�to keep thi...