Improving with age by Risteárd Mulcahy



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Improving With Age

Part memoir, part practical guide, "Improving With Age" addresses the increasingly topical area of health and ageing. The book is organised into three sections covering the importance of exercise, practical advice on exercise and most candidly the author's own experience in later life - he took up jogging at 51. Risteárd Mulcahy explains how exercise is increasingly important as we grow older. His account of his own involvement in running, cycling and exercising is both practical and inspiring - and on occasion amusing.

About the Author

If there was anyone you had to choose to represent an active older person, Professor Risteárd Mulcahy would be the perfect choice. At the age of 81 he still works two days a week, cycles to his clinic and ran his first marathon at the age of sixty-one. While head of the cardiology department in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin, he was one of the very first joggers on our 1970's streets. He remains a keen walker who fits in 18 holes of golf, two or three times a week.

Author Risteard Mulcahy with Ulick O'Connor and Sean O'Keeffe at the launch of Improving With Age.

			Risteard Mulcahy When I cycle against the heavy traffic in Dublin and see the long lines of slow-moving private cars, occupied in most cases by one person, I have a feeling of despair about the direction the human race is taking.”