Grandchildren, the floor, and why I am doing this

My hearing and my eyesight mean appointments are harder work, and asking for things in writing has solved most of that.

What I would flag is that muscle matters more now than it did at forty, and protecting it is worth more attention than anything else.

Here, reading, and glad you posted.

The falls conversation was worth having explicitly, and it produced a practical set of things I would not have thought of.

I found the online material almost entirely aimed at people thirty years younger, which is why this circle matters to me.

What helped was one clinician who took a view of the whole of me rather than four people each managing one thing.

The bloods I asked for turned up a deficiency that had probably been there for years, and correcting it changed how I felt more than anything.

What I got right was bringing my daughter to the first appointment, because two sets of ears is worth a great deal in nine minutes.

No advice, just company. Here if it helps.

Somebody here said that the aim at our stage is capability rather than anything else, and I have used that framing at two appointments since.

I would gently say do not accept everything being attributed to age. Mine was, twice, and something specific was found both times.

Something practical: everything is in one place with a written note of what it is for, so that anybody could pick it up and understand it.

I found this circle because everywhere else assumed I was thirty-five and had never had a hip replaced.

Thank you. Genuinely.

I went considerably slower than the schedule, agreed, and it has been entirely uneventful over two years.