WHO puts healthy ageing on the front burner.

“You old people get out and do something!” The advice comes from Felimina Rotundo, who runs a laundry shop in Buff alo, NY, USA. She turned a hundred on Oct 20, 2015, and has been “doing something”—working 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, from dawn to dusk—for the past 85 years. “I talk to people all day”, she tells the journalists gathered in the doorway of her shop. “I get up in the morning and say: ‘I have to go to work.’ It does something for you.” She’ll continue working, she says with a broad smile, “as long as I stay healthy”.