for many of you I want you to look at
this face and this from the 1938 musical
in Old Chicago and from the 1940 musical
lilan Russell she of course as my
audience has already recognized she of
course is Alice Fay the star of some 40
Motion Pictures during the 30s and 40s
but according to her band leader husband
Phil Harris she Still's got she still
has the best legs in Hollywood today
Alice Fay is touring the country for
fiser pharmaceuticals teaching older
Americans to help themselves to Good
Health would you welcome the wonderful
Alice
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Fay oh
Terri for a moment there I thought you'd
heard I was taking tap lamp lessons
which I am are you really I'm trying to
learn how to tap dance for Miss America
this fall but I want to ask you look at
this figure what's the secret well it's
hard work lots of exercise dieting now I
know your husband loves to play golf do
you play golf a lot not much not much
that's probably the reason why you all
been married so long that's why okay
well we'll talk about that a Slim Trim
figure and what you're doing with fisa
today helping older Americans when we
come back all listen more today's
edition of our
magazine thank you and thank you for
being with us today I'm back with the
delightful Alice Fay and we've been
joined by someone that you perhaps
remember you've seen him enough times in
our program Dr Joe noello who's been
traveling with Alice promoting good
health for the elderly well how did they
manage to put you two together well
we're we're on tour for fisa
pharmaceutical and we are
visiting uh all the um senior citizens
in in all the big cities and we're
talking to them about good health and
about doing the things they should do
for themselves to be better on off as
they age mhm and have a better life now
Dr nll you're a
psychiatrist and but what is the angle
that you're working on well uh I'm
interested in in the whole person the
psychology of a aging Gary is really
just part of it and so we're talking
about how to promote a better lifestyle
a better exercise program I'm learning a
lot from Alice and the elderly people
that we meet and my wife Tony is jealous
because I get to travel all around the
country with Alice come on now one of
the things that obviously fizer is is
aware of is that uh you're not going to
put a
20-year-old in a retirement home to talk
to seniors about good health and
everything they want to know they want
to know that somebody's been there they
know what's going on and you've been
very open about well about your age and
about now have you always been in good
health well you know excuse me but that
reminds me of Phil you all remember Phil
Harris Phil always says if I if I'd have
thought I'd live this long I'd have
taken better care of myself
well that's a good that's a good point
so there you are but he waited too long
you're supposed to start maybe 30 35 I
think oh at least you started when you
were about 40 so there was a time that
you didn't take care of as yourself as
well as you did later on yeah what's
been the major change instead of in
Terms of taking care of yourself well I
mean I diet exercise diet no smoking uh
I walk a lot I swim a lot and uh you
just can't go wrong when you do those
things from your Vantage Point what's
the biggest problem you have to deal
with with uh with older seniors in terms
of of of of a of a good later life I'd
say the thing that we're picking up more
than anything else uh is that elderly
people tend not to follow their doctor's
orders they get confused easily uh when
we were in Boston I took a tour of a
group of elderly people we found that
50% of the people in that audience
swapped pills with each other you know
I've got a pain down here my doctor gave
me this blue one remember that fell here
try one of mine uh yes it's it's it's
it's true uh people tend also to stop
Med taking medication too soon or
they'll use out ofd prescriptions
another thing that happens is this the
older you get the more chronic diseases
you develop hypertension arthritis we
find people who will be taking the same
medication under different brand names
from different doctors because they tend
to see so many doctors so I would say
that not following the doctor's orders
is probably the single biggest problem
that we're encountering so far well then
how do you get them to recognize that as
a problem area and get them to change
there are several tips uh that we give
them number one to get it in writing get
everything written down in one place go
to your doctor have him go over it uh
make him a partner in your healthc care
uh use a reminder ERS a schedule of
pills that you take and so forth so that
you're not taking too many or too few uh
I think being educated getting smart
about your illnesses like Alice is Alice
happens to take some medication uh yet
she follows the prescriptions well and
has no problems that's true what's the
first thing you think of when you get up
in the morning Alice the first thing I
do attitude has a lot to do with it
attitude has everything to do with it
yeah it really does the way you think
and and your outlook
very very important what's the first
thing you think of or what's the first
thing you do I'm wondering if Phil is
using my
curlers no no I usually I really do I
get up and I usually take a walk I take
a walk first thing yeah because I'm
lucky I live down in the desert and
there's a lot of space there people just
don't know what good a walk is how much
good a walk can do for you do I've
trying to talk my mother into doing it
oh she should I I hope she listens to
you because it's probably the single
best exercise that you can do uh parents
listen to their children the children
listen to their parents I think the best
thing to do is get get her a little
puppy and she'll take the puppy out in
the morning you see that's one way the
only trouble was that she had a puppy
and then she got another one then she
got a cat oh then she had another and
she couldn't leave the house because of
all the animals I don't know which is
worse but she's happy well another area
that we have to concern ourselves with
is tune out yes where it becomes I mean
age becomes literally a state of mind a
lot of people are are seniors long
before they should be chronologically
seniors that's right that's right and
how do you deal with that to stay active
stay involved uh on this tour Alice is
up most mornings before I am she's out
there on the telephone she's planning
the day uh others can do that too we
meet a lot of wonderful people as we go
around the country they're contributing
they're giving something of themselves
back to their community and I I think
that's probably the single best piece of
advice that we can give give something
of yourself stay involved in in your
world in some way I would also imagine
it helps tremendously to to to have your
husband with you well of course to be to
be able to communicate and and certainly
with he's such a funny and interesting
you think so well yes but then I don't I
don't he's watching you I don't have
to don't have to be married to such a
funny man what oh oh I know that's not
the first time you've heard that lordy
lordy no is there anything we can talk
about Alice I'm not saying another word
about him Fable to go home you brought
him up he told me to oh he told you
to well listen before I I do give the
address where folks can write for more
information relative to what we've been
talking about if you had to say
something to someone out there and maybe
it's just a collectively what we've been
talking about someone who has not
reached their senior years what what's
the best piece of advice we could give
them I would say preparing in advance do
it as Alice did Gary start now no matter
what your age because the lifespan for
Americans is increasing you know uh it's
the largest growing segment of our
population we're leading longer lives we
better lead it in good health so start
preparing right now but are we ever
going to be able to and I imagine it
would help tremendously with Social
Security push back the retirement so
that we can continue to be involved and
work at things that we have worked at
for years and be become very efficient
at I might add I hope we'll be able to
do that that may happen but you might
have to do it like Ellice did Alice left
the movies at a very young age and yet
stayed active in her own ways she found
her own personal creative ways to stay
involved yeah well I'm sure glad you're
invit you're involved with
fizer I love working forer spokesperson
and I'm nice to see you happy to see you
involved with the two Dr let me give you
this uh hold
it let me give you this address if you'd
like more information you May write for
a free booklet called help yourself to
good health and simply write to fizer
niia booklet PO Box 1781 Murray Hill
Station New York New York
10156 wow what eyes you've got hey I'm
preparing I'm preparing thank you good
for
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you