Age Is Just a Number: How to Stay Forever Young
Exercise, good financial planning, & healthy mental habits are the key to healthy ageing according to this 85-yr-old
Mr Palanisamy Ramadas was born in 1929, the year of the Great Depression. He was 16 when World War II ended, and 36 when Singapore was founded. If you're picturing him as a frail elderly, you couldn't be more wrong. This 85-year old will see you at the gym... or on Twitter. As a young lad milking the family cows in now-Malaysia, Mr Palanisamy Ramadas, now 85, probably didn’t imagine the long life he had ahead of him.
His story in a nutshell: He came to Singapore in the early 1950s and started out as a nurse. Became a nursing administrator after pursuing further studies overseas. Got married, had four children, but became a widower nearly 25 years ago after his wife passed away in a car accident in which he was also involved.
Having experienced such a tragedy, he could be excused for choosing to live in the past, but the man is focused on the present. His memory is solid; his gait and voice, steady like those of a man at least half his age. How does he do it? How come he has so much energy that during the interview, he got up from his chair to enthusiastically perform a series of knee bends to demonstrate his good knee condition? If the answer could be summarised in two words, they would be: Healthy habits.
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