Meet Per-Anders Ygberg, a 97 year young gentleman.

Per-Anders is living proof that physical activity is great for your brain, memory and balance.
He realized when he was 90 years old that he was tripping and falling, sometimes over 10 times per day.
Muscles that are not used decay, so does the brain, so he started to walk up the stairs in the stairwell where he lives, took the elevator down to the basement and then walked back up three stories again.

Per-Anders, who is an extremely curious person, found an app so he can follow up his daily activities.

-Besides the fact that I am not tripping anymore, I don´t forget to lock the front door either he says with a smile.
His memory is remarkable, when he is talking it is often quite long stories with anecdotes from the past - but he never lose the point or what the question was about!

Per-Anders says that he is in better shape now than he was 15 years ago, it is never to late to start.

Being gifted with “clever hands” Per-Anders has always loved to find solutions to problems and here is one example: He is almost blind due to macula of retina, so when he got a new microwave with touchscreen it was pretty useless for him. After some thinking he found some old O-rings in a drawer, glued one on the 30-seconds touch, another on the 1-minute touch etc. This way he has made his own braille on his microwave. and now he uses it for cooking every day.

Per-Anders showing one of all his brilliant solutions, O-rings on the touchscreen microwave. At the same time while he is doing this, he is mumbling “my memory is getting better and better”.

-When I make my porridge in the mornings I use pearl sugar instead of powdered sugar. The pearl sugar I can grab with my fingers and that way I know how much I take which I wouldn't know pouring powdered sugar. Another example how his brain is helping him with daily solutions in order to make his life better.

Where does he get his motivation? When I ask him, he answers that it is because of lifelong bad self-confidence. To deal with this bad self-confidence he has always been interested in people and learn from them everything they know. The result is a humble and curious person with a huge amount of general education which makes him a rockstar one of a kind.
Thank you Per-Anders for sharing your life with us.