I prefer old age to the alternative
Maurice Chevalier
French singer and actor

It is quite true that if you want to live to successful aging, health will certainly be the decisive factor in your attempts to reach this goal. However, for many people the reasoning about productive aging, health, exercising, social activity at advanced years could seem quite fantastic and difficult to understand. The case is that many of us are sure that with aging health passes through gradual and inevitable decline due to numerous, consuming diseases. For such persons the idea of productive aging, health, and anything positive in old age might appear foolish and productive aging, health and all almost impossible. Notwithstanding this, men of science affirm that productive aging is quite attainable.