1. If your parents are using their hands to get off the sofa, thats not because of ageing but its because of lost strength. After age 30, people naturally lose 3-8% of muscle mass per decade. After 50, this speeds up especially if they’re inactive. Now send this to your parents before you forget. Strength can be rebuilt and all it takes is 3 moves for just 5 minutes a day. First Chair squats Make your parents Sit down on a chair and stand back up slowly and make them use their arms only when necessary, the goal here is to rebuild leg strength. If reps of 10 are hard, then start off with 5-8 reps. This helps them sit, stand, and even get off the sofa with ease. Second: Heel raises Ask your parents to hold the back of a chair. Let them slowly lift their heels up, take pauses and come back down 15 times. This builds balance and foot strength so they can be like the same parents who danced at weddings not the ones now asking for help to stand up from the sofa. Third: Wall Pushups They should stand in front of a wall and place their hands on it. Then lean in and gently push back. This makes their arms and shoulders stronger so that your parents can carry the sabzi bags, not just WhatsApp forwards. Now, putting things in perspective, You track your steps while they lose theirs, share this with your parents and make them move now so they don’t fall later.