101-year-old working woman, who lives alone in New York, shares 3 tips to live longer, healthier, and happier, and none is about fitness

A 101-year-old woman in New York City still works a weekly job, lives alone, and outperforms dozens of people younger than her when it comes to staying fit. Eileen Lavine attributes her long, active life to three habits, none of which include exercise, according to a report by TODAY.com. Old age is often portrayed as fading away, sleepiness, forgetfulness, fewer plans on the calendar. But Lavine’s routine tells a very different story. At an age when many people have trouble remembering what they had for breakfast, she still edits professional publications, works on a slew of newsletters and keeps a social calendar so full that her younger relatives might tire out. According to the report, his core belief is that a mind kept busy is very different from a body left idle throughout the ages.

Tip 1: Exercise Your Mind, Not Your Body

These days, Lavine no longer swims or walks around with a walker. He doesn’t hide it. But he is quick to highlight where he still has an advantage.

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Mornings reportedly work like clockwork: Raisin Bran and coffee, followed by a cover-to-cover reading of two daily newspapers, followed by that week’s New Yorker and the crossword puzzle. By the time most people start their workday, they’ve already pored over a pile of news releases and opened tabs on several researchers and media outlets. Evenings of “Jeopardy!” It belongs to the competition programs called. A deep-rooted family tradition.

Tip 2: Keep Doing What Feels Useful

The report noted that Lavine’s career rarely followed a traditional timeline. He finished high school and left New York for college in Wisconsin at just 16, years ahead of his classmates. She wrote for the student newspaper on campus and became the first woman to serve as the newspaper’s editor for a semester. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia and then worked in France, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, eventually landing in the newspaper business, working at The New York Times, public relations and radio.

In 1962 he and seven others contributed fifty dollars to found a company called Information Services; this company offered writing and editing assistance to nonprofit organizations that could not afford to hire full-time staff. That company closed a long time ago, but his editorial business did not. He has served as a senior editor at Moment, a magazine about Jewish life, since 2008, logging in for a video call every Wednesday to proofread the latest issue, according to the report.

Tip 3: Never Let the Social Calendar Go Empty

Shortly after moving into a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, Lavine met her husband, Richard, a 32-year-old lawyer and musician, according to the report. They raised two children together. After his death in 2014, he continued the tradition of the weekly card game and alternately hosted a group of neighbors at his apartment for bridge.Also Read: Why are home prices rising in the U.S. and why is it becoming harder for middle-class Americans to buy a home?

These days Thursday nights are for poker. Their kids come to visit in the afternoons for a British spy series, and they always kick in after “Jeopardy!”

In her memoirs, written at the age of 97 and titled “A Medley of Extemporanea,” Lavine summarized her perspective in five words: “I’ve never felt truly alone!”