**7. Conclusion**

This chapter explored the influence of a healthy lifestyle, physical exercise behavior, ANS activity, and adequate sleep on healthy aging. To reach healthy aging, it is recommended that older people adopt a healthy lifestyle, which involves being physically active, consuming a healthy diet, quitting tobacco, and reducing excessive alcohol use. A healthy lifestyle, particularly physical exercise and healthy sleep improve the balance of ANS activity in older people. The ANS involves important aspects for healthy aging. It is also suggested to maintain healthy sleep with adequate duration of 7–8 hours. Short sleep (<6 hours) and oversleep (>9 hours) increase the risk of CVD, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension. With these aspects to keep in mind, healthcare professionals are encouraged to promote activities and a healthy lifestyle to help older people reach healthy aging with good quality of life.
