Feeling constantly exhausted is not normal, regardless of your age. It’s a myth that as we age, fatigue becomes par for the course, though it is a common symptom: One study found that 29 per cent of 70-year-olds and 68 per cent of 85-year-olds experienced fatigue. In one study, among older adults, low energy was more often cited as the reason it’s hard to get out of bed than even chronic joint or back pain.

Fatigue may not bode well. A study of almost 1000 adults, age 75, living in Norway and Finland, found that those who reported feeling tired in their daily activities had more than twice the odds of becoming disabled within the next five years than those who did not. People who experience fatigue are also more likely to experience loneliness and have higher mortality rates.

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