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Seven ways to grow old in style

Take up cheerleading

Video: The cheerleading pensioners of Tokyo

Fumie Takino has set up Japan Pom Pom, a cheerleading squad for Tokyo's over 55s.

Take up yoga

The 98-year-old yoga teacher

Täo Porchon-Lynch still teaches 90 minute classes every week. How does she do it?

Carry on working

Working into your 90s

How working into your 90s could keep you healthier for longer

Carry on learning

The Bangladeshi grandmother determined to learn to read

Bashiron Nesa, aged 65, is attending school for the first time

Keep looking for new solutions

Is this Afghanistan’s most prolific inventor?

Ghulam Sediq Wardak's prolific inventing meant he was labelled as mad by many

Find love and get married

Wedding bells for Kenya's biggest croc

Big Daddy the crocodile married his two girlfriends of thirty years

Just keep going ...

Wisdom is the world's oldest known bird

The albatross is 66 years old and is expecting - again!