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A 95-year-old who plays golf and volunteers shares her tips for health and happiness

A 95-year-old who plays golf and volunteers shares her tips for health and happiness
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Sally Froelich in a yellow shirt, putting a painting of a flower on a shelf.
At 95, Sally Froelich is active and plays golf three times a week.

  • Sally Froelich has aged remarkably well. She still golfs three times a week at 95.
  • Froelich gave Business Insider some of her tips for staying healthy and happy.
  • They include being sociable and doing exercise every day.

Sally Froelich has been talking about aging for a long time. Which makes sense — she’s 95.

She credits that focus as part of the reason she has aged so well: she used to host a TV show where people spoke about reaching age milestones.

Froelich, a New Yorker, spoke to Business Insider to share the lifestyle habits she thinks have helped her reach 95.

Sally Froelich as the host of Bloomingdale's morning show.
Froelich presented “The Sally Froelich Show” on television for 21 years.

Be sociable

“The most important part is sociability. Friends are so very important. You need someone that you can confide in, there’s always somebody out there that’ll listen to you,” Froelich said. “And, if things go wrong, you got to make it right. Do unto others as you want them to do unto you.”

Professor Rose Anne Kenny, a gerontologist at Trinity College Dublin, thinks that having good friendships is just as important as eating healthily and exercising for longevity.

In a 2023 study of over 450,000 adults in the UK, researchers found that being socially isolated was linked to a 77% higher risk of death in adults aged 37 to 73 over a 12-year follow-up period.

Froelich herself is part of a study — the SuperAger study of people over 95 from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which looks for inherited factors that could help slow aging.

Do some exercise every day

Froelich started playing golf when she was 24 and now plays three times a week.

On days she’s not playing golf, she’s still active.

“I do 10 sit-ups. I do stretches. I lift eight pounds on each hand, and then bend over and lift five pounds on each leg, 20 times each. I walk in place very quickly,” she said. “And I ride my bike, not as often as I should. But I do something almost every single day.”

Experts agree that exercising regularly is one of the best things you can do for healthy aging, especially strength training.

Sally Froelich standing on her balcony in a yellow shirt and white trousers.
Froelich’s tips for longevity include being sociable and staying active.

Nathan K. LeBrasseur, director of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging at Mayo Clinic, previously told BI that spending 3% of your day exercising, or 30 minutes, can have a “profound impact” on overall health.

Keep busy

“Not everybody can be very athletic, but hopefully, most people can do something to keep busy,” Froelich said. “Help people out, do charity work.”

She plays canasta and bridge, talks with friends on the phone, and volunteers. After she had cancer, she worked with the American Cancer Society for 38 years to run a Hope Lodge in New York City, where people stay while getting treatment.

She was until recently a board member for a Jewish home for older people, where she redecorated residents’ rooms and threw parties for those turning 100.

A 2016 study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience found that busy lifestyles were associated with better cognition in 330 participants aged 50 to 89.

Read the original article on Business Insider



This article was originally published by Serafina Kenny at All Content from Business Insider – Read this article and more at (https://www.businessinsider.com/95-year-old-superager-longevity-tips-healthy-aging-golf-volunteer-2024-11).

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