We’re well under the three year mark for when the first Baby Boomers will be eligible for Medicare in 2011.  A short seven years later, in 2018, the trust fund that pays Medicare bills will go broke.  We have some issues, creeping quickly, that we clearly need to deal with.

Maybe it starts with personal responsibility for your own health.  Municipalities in two foreign lands have made that task easier—no gym membership required.

PSFK brings us a trend of Boomers in Hong Kong working out in public parks.  Making this happen in the United States may be another story, “While it seems to be possible to grow older and remain an active lifestyle in China, being elderly in western society at the same time predetermines you to be totally passive.”

They also link to an article (pdf) about the first playground for senior citizens in Berlin.

The good folks at PSFK provide some pictures at Flickr.
Why stop there?  How about work out facilities in parks for all ages.  Now if we could only figure out to get people away from Seinfeld reruns and days-long sessions of Guitar Hero…

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