Keep moving! Yes! Also, emotional health is important. Many elderly people die of loneliness. If one parent dies, be VERY vigilant about getting the other into a situation where he/she has friends.
Good thing society banned people from visiting their relatives in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. We sentenced the oldest in our population to die in what amounts to solitary confinement.
But it is dismissive to those people with nobody at all in their lives, to equate "got calls instead of in-person visits" with "nobody knows or cares about you and you will never receive a call from anyone for the rest of your life".
The GGP conflated those experiences but they are qualitatively different.
I'm fully in favour of visiting the old people in your life.
But I wish people would also spend some time brightening the lives of other old people as well.
My wife worked with geriatrics. She directly saw the impact of having friendly people around the elderly. Even if you aren't visited by your family, any visitors can help. The pandemic made this especially difficult. My wife worked to overcome this: she partnered with a local "sniff" (think: old people left the hospital, but they need some help before they go home, so they go to an old-people hotel) to have fun events where people from our church would visit the elderly and just have fun.
Please visit the old people in your life.
It was about older people in nursing homes who were sent to pre-school, with unrelated children a few days a week.
The effect on these senior citizens heath and quality of life was profound.
Old People's Home For 4 Year Olds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13_rJVvxx_g
Consider, also: not all old people are mobile enough to leave their home (or even bed!). They need friends and happy people.
If you work with elderly, please be friendly. If you know elderly, please be friendly to them.
How does this work exactly? Medically speaking.
It's also underappreciated how often depression in the elderly can lead to confusion or even psychosis. Which can also lead to a fatal accident.