Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells OAP's to 'take control of your health and have fun'

Llewelyn-Bowen says 'design important arsenic we age' (Image: Rangeford Retirement Villages )

Design adept and tv property Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen says the UK needs to revoutionise its cognition to increasing aged to debar a ‘tsunami of wellness problems.’

The erstwhile Changing Rooms big and Strictly Come Dancing contestant said unless radical ‘take work for their ain health’ the state volition beryllium crippled by a burgeoning fig of radical with costly to dainty property related wellness problems.

The flamboyant 59-year-old begetter of 2 who lives successful Gloucestershire said: “Speaking arsenic an aged idiosyncratic it boils down to the information that it is down to us. We person a tsunami coming of older radical with sick wellness needing care. We request to look aft us. Don’t portion excessively much, don’t smoke, instrumentality much workout and broaden our horizons. If we each did that for ourselves determination would beryllium nary tsunami. No authorities tin hole this. Change has to travel from wrong you.”

He added ageing good is not conscionable astir steadfast surviving but besides astir ‘being brave’ and ‘having fun’.

He said: “ I americium present designing a step assistance for my location with a mini barroom attached truthful that if it gets stuck halfway up the stairs I won’t interest astir becoming dehydrated. You don’t privation to beryllium astir similar a feline woman surrounded by copies of People’s Friend mag and feline medicine. Make definite you enactment worldly away. I can’t carnivore it. You request to alteration your satellite and by talking astir this alteration I tin possibly alteration immoderate different older person’s mentation of themselves erstwhile they work your nonfiction successful the Sunday Express.”

Llewelyn-Bowen: "tsunami of OAP's needing care." (Image: Getty)

The outspoken personage added: “I’ve got astir 20 years near of life. I privation 20 years of fun. I americium not spending 20 years successful past year's couture - get escaped of it. Why? We are getting this wrong. We request to absorption connected however beauteous thing is, not however young thing is. You don’t request a choky face. My knees are opening to springiness out, but I’m not giving up connected my Cuban heels - adjacent if I person to deterioration them connected a brace of slippers.

“It each boils down to attitude. Either propulsion your arms unfastened to beige oregon conscionable support connected dancing. If you can’t creation similar you utilized to, larn a caller dance. Do it and dance. Don’t bash it and shuffle. We person to beryllium realistic astir our lives and our situation. Things were good erstwhile you were successful your 30’s but they are not good astatine 60, but it's astir not giving in. Older radical request to measurement up and cognize we cannot use the judgements of younker to the mode we are. As we boomers were increasing up we were each anticipating being punk rockers, being Sid Vicious - present we are aged we are each dangly and baggy, america boys person breasts. We person to beryllium much realistic and hide the thought of being Apollo. Yes you volition look baggy but you don’t request to shuffle into oblivion successful your life. Keep changing. Never halt being brave - I’ve ne'er felt 60, 40 oregon 18. I’m inactive amazed by my age. The worst happening that mankind came up with is numbers. Do we request to cognize what clip it is? How aged we are? Get escaped of numbers!”

"Older radical beryllium brave, person fun, support dancing" (Image: Getty)

Mr Llewelyn-Bowen, who has present turned his manus to designing for Rangeford - a institution which runs luxury status villages crossed the UK - added: “People are paying from resources that they don’t need, surviving successful immense houses that they can’t spend to unrecorded successful properly, successful houses they can’t spend to vigor - arsenic you get older you request to look astatine your abstraction and however things work. I wanted to enactment with Rangeford arsenic soon arsenic I recovered retired astir it. I genuinely consciousness these status homes volition marque a quality to the lives of older people. It's astir however we make abstraction and astir a mode of surviving for each of america who privation to beryllium arsenic autarkic arsenic imaginable successful older property alternatively than being near retired connected my ain successful a community.”

And helium added: “We request to find a caller connection for status - erstwhile generations worked truthful physically hard that status was different. Now what are we retiring from? Mostly we are retiring from sitting down a machine surface and erstwhile you halt you thin to beryllium much physically active. Retirement is present much astir reincarnation and it is fundamentally astir looking astatine your beingness and doing it successful a antithetic way. People request to truly look astatine what their satellite needs to go to beryllium who they request to become.”

Lewelyn-Bowen: "Keep changing. Keep being brave." (Image: Getty)