{"id":20758,"date":"2016-12-09T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20758"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T08:13:08","slug":"what-should-baby-boomers-do-to-stay-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20758","title":{"rendered":"What should baby boomers do to stay healthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am officially a &#8216;baby boomer&#8217; because I was born between 1946 and 1964 (actually in 1948).<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-38249979\">BBC news item<\/a>, England&#8217;s chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has called on people aged between 50 and 70 to keep working to stay healthy. In <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/health-of-the-baby-boomer-generation\">a report<\/a> on the health of the so-called baby boomers, it is claimed that the physical and mental health benefits of being employed or volunteering &#8220;should not be underestimated&#8221;. Davies said working helps people feel fulfilled and less isolated.<\/p>\n<p>I an 68 and still working &#8211; not full-time, but around two-thirds, I reckon. As you can see from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/2010\/about.shtml\">my short biography<\/a>, I continue to hold six appointments in the field of consumer advocacy in regulated sectors of the economy. I enjoy the mental stimulus of working on complex issues with clever, younger people &#8211; and, according to the new report, this will help me to stay healthy and live longer. That&#8217;s the plan anyway &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am officially a &#8216;baby boomer&#8217; because I was born between 1946 and 1964 (actually in 1948). According to a BBC news item, England&#8217;s chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has called on people aged between 50 and 70 to keep working to stay healthy. In a report on the health of the so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}