Women pull the short straw when it comes to active aging

Watching the think tank on active aging work makes you stop and think about your own aging process. For me, this is a new experience, but as has been said many times, aging affects all of us as we are all aging each and every day. At the same time, I’m seeing the results of the Philips Index for Health and Well-being coming in from around the world. Women are much more stressed than men, wherever you are. I assume this is because of the “double burden” that women face of working and then working at home managing a house and a family. And this double burden gets you in the end, so I discovered this week. This article is worth a read http://cot.ag/bt1pQT as it explains that “women have a more than 20 percent greater chance of suffering from bad health in their old age.” So, in short active aging seems far more difficult if you are a woman - yes we live longer than men, - but suffer much more disability and disease – as a result of the double burden that causes us such stress in earlier years.