Focus on future|Looking and feeling

Time files when you are having fun, and even when you aren’t! Once you’ve forged through your fifties you’ll probably soar through your sixties, as time really does seem to get faster all the time post – forty.

Remember what a long time a year seemed when you were ten? Now it comes along at least six times as quickly in our perspective, and we can visualize next Christmas almost as soon as we’re finished with this one, So, since time files whether you’re having fun or not, you might as well have fun!

GRAB YOUR CHANCES

Focus on future and Opportunities may be decline in your sixties, says Professor Cooper which can be depressing if you let it be, but you should be making positive plans for what you intend to do with the next corner now. ‘Women usually have more varied interests outside their main work than men,

which is healthy, so they often don’t have to work so hard at creating opportunities or cementing friendships as men do’, Professor

Cooper notes “Men are often a disaster area a t this age, and if you are partnered, you may have a problem with your man if he’s retired, trying to get him to focus.

But stress can also come from seeing yourself as alone, without the status and support your work or family used to give you, or because of lack of prudent financial planning for retirement.

Whether you’re still working or not, this is a good time to join the local drama society, sign up for evening classes or being doing some work for charity because under employment or retirement, can be a huge health hazard’, says Professor Cooper, ‘and it’s good to plan ahead’.

TAKE PRIDE: LOOKING AND FEELING GOOD

With active, attractive over – sixties role models such as Joan Collins, Jilly Cooper, Gloria Steinem, Sophia Loren, Shirley Bassey and the Duchess of Kent around, women who reached their first prime in the 1960s and who have taken the same sort of care of themselves can feel they’re still in prime time in their sixties in the Focus on future.