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Ages 40–65
Gross motor
- Balance work from 40
No guideline requires balance work before 65 — but it declines from midlife and is cheap to keep. A couple of minutes, a few days a week.
Social & emotional
- Something to get up for
A role — volunteering, grandchildren, teaching, a group — protects mood and thinking as much as exercise does.
Self care
- Retirement and pension review (55)
Consolidate pension funds, check fees and the survivor/disability cover, and model the income gap.
Feeding
- Protein 1.2–1.6 g/kg/day (from 40)
Spread over 3–4 meals, 25–40 g each, to keep muscle while training; e.g., 80 kg → 100–130 g/day.
Health
- Eye exam every 2 years (from 40)
Baseline at 40, then every 2–4 y to 54, 1–3 y to 64, 1–2 y at 65+; yearly with diabetes. Professional consensus, not USPSTF-graded.
- Perimenopause: what to expect (from ~45)
Cycle changes, sleep, mood, hot flushes; hormone therapy is safe and effective for most within 10 years of menopause — ask, don't suffer.
- Hearing test every 3 years (from 50)
Every 3 years from 50 (yearly if around noise); untreated hearing loss is a leading modifiable dementia risk factor.
- Mammography every 2 years (50–74; discuss from 40)
Israeli program: 50–74 biennial, from 40 with family history or on request; BRCA carriers follow a separate plan.
- Colorectal screening: FIT yearly 50–74 (discuss from 45)
Free FIT kit from the kupah each year; colonoscopy every 10 years is the alternative, and earlier with family history.
- Prostate (PSA) — shared decision at 50
Talk with the family doctor about the pros/cons of PSA testing (45 with family history or African ancestry).
- Shingles vaccine (recombinant, 2 doses) from 50
Two doses 2–6 months apart; partly covered by supplementary insurance in Israel; in the basket from 65 (verify).