Learn English – the phrase or idiom for older people who still can function properly

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Sentence: Although he is 90 this year, he still _____: he can still walk, eat on his own.

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Sprightly is often used in that sense:

(especially of old people) energetic and in good health:

  • He's a sprightly old man of 75.

(Cambridge Dictionary)