immediately you turned 55 years of age, you are a senior citizen. Although, you would not be collecting your social security benefits until you are 62 years of age. The fact remains you are a senior citizen at 55 Listen to the advice below: CANDID ADVICE TO SENIOR CITIZENS_* Every aged person must agree there is need for extra personal well-being. 1. Avoid sleeping alone at night in the room. 2. Don't ever lock yourself up alone in your room at night. 3. Where your spouse is not available, get somebody to stay with you, especially at night. 4. Don't be too busy/tired to take your drug(s), especially before retiring to bed. 5. Take to your Doctor's directive/advice, especially on what to eat or not what to eat or do. 6. Ageing is not a sickness, it's a natural process. 7. Avoid loneliness at all cost. 8 Make yourself happy, no matter the circumstances, because life goes on with or without you. 9. Reach out to people or places of interest, for as long as your strength could carry/allow you. 10. Be less rigid/ conservative about issues and circumstances. 11. Make people around you happy, but not at the expense of your joy. 12. Chase wealth less, rather, love to enjoy that much you have stored up over time. 13. Be prayerful and less materialistic. 14. Be grateful to God at all times. 15. Make the effort to take walks early in the morning to renew your ageing body 16. Avoid eating after 6:30 pm and where you feel very hungry in the night, eat fruits only and drink a lot of water. God bless you Nature is not kind to men & women who did not cater for their old ages when they were young .