What really matters is when they start having health problems they can’t manage between themselves.

pp, any warning of this? Meds they should have taken, and didn't?

My parents' health became an issue in their 70s; heart, mobility and stroke.

My dad is wheelchair bound from a medical condition, 82. He has cognitive slowing I think from really crappy sleep quality from poor sleep, but no dementia, high blood pressure or diabetes. It is reeeeaally a crap shoot. I'll never forget my family medicine rotation there was a young thin man mid 20s already with diabetes!

We aren't that active sports wise, and have no mobility issues

I find this interesting. I'm about your age. Walking is good but there does seem to be some downside to being too active. Young people I know will never believe that approach for us.

Mom got breast cancer at 61 and died two years later. Father developed Parkinson's in his late 70s but ultimately died from prostate cancer at 86.

My MIL is, thank God, fit as a fiddle at 84, doesn't even take any medications. FIL died from ALS at 84 (was only seriously ill for less than a year before he passed).

I am in my 60s, but my issues started in my 40s, namely thyroid which affects heart electrical response, so it's not age related. However, it's managed well and I'm pretty healthy beside that. Spouse has no issues. We only just lost our own parents in their 90s, and we have contemporaries, late 60s and early 70s who still have their parents- late nineties or over 100. My friends are pretty healthy too, but if I have to pick anything it would be joints. The more sports active, the more joint and back issues. Lots of replacements, cortisol shots. We aren't that active sports wise, and have no mobility issues.

Anonymous wrote:^^I meant my mom's heart condition didn't affect her until midlife and then was generally well- controlled.

What was her heart condition, though?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dad had perfect health and died just after his 70th birthday unexpectedly.

Best way to go. I hope I go this way.

At 70??? I certainly hope not. Sorry, for your loss previous poster.

80 Mother (stroke - still living), 80 Father (died of heart attack), MIL 80 - joint replacements, hearing loss, FIL 78 - cancer. I feel fortunate that they all were great right up until they weren't almost like a light switch.

Anonymous wrote:
Mother, 26 - Multiple Sclerosis. I was born when she was 30 and she's still alive and "well" at 73.

Father, 70s - rigidity/OCD/anxiety. We suspect these are the precursors to dementia. Still alive at 73 and physically well.

Me - auto-immune disease. Heart disease, dementia and breast cancer family history in grandparents and aunts.

DD - auto-immune disease markers elevated.

Virtual huge.

^^I meant my mom's heart condition didn't affect her until midlife and then was generally well- controlled.