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Let’s get active to learn about ageing.
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Aikido: Martial arts for the elderly
Aikido is a a practice that can help people balance body, mind and spirit. It can be practiced until very old age, and it's also a fun and social activity with many benefits
Keep in touch with FamilieFoto
Students of Communication and Multimedia design Amsterdam came up with this concept to help elderly stay connected with their family via an interactive picture frame. It displays messages and pictures sent to them, they can respond with voice message
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Advanced Glycation End (AGE) products
Recent studies have confirmed that refined sugar accelerates the aging process by adding inches to our waistlines and wrinkles to our faces.
Community health and secrets to living to a healthy 100
The Florida Hospital has created a community health network of community initiatives, workshops, events, screenings, and nutrition seminars to facilitate and disseminate tools for adopting healthy lifestyle changes at all ages.
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Simply Walking
Walking is a great way to "keep on moving"
Lifelong Sports and Social Clubs
Taking up a sport and joining a club at any age can be an amazing way of becoming embedded in a wonderful supportive community, comprising of multiple generations. The younger you start, the more you stand to gain.
Phased Retirement
Work shouldn't just stop when you retire. What if instead of a sudden stop your working life slowly wound down?
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Keep Moving and Breathing
You've got to keep all your vital parts moving to keep working well. I have done yoga for years. Though the school of yoga I do changes to accommodate me, I can still derive a lot to remain flexible and breathe deeply.
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Social Approach to Fitness
Not everyone is a hardcore fitness enthusiast, so how can one make the casual day-to-day activities or encourage people to participate in group fitness to help motivate themselves, connect and share their activities. Cody app is trying this approach.
CrossFit for seniors and everyone!
Utilizing CrossFit, especially its sense of community and camaraderie, to link generations and maintain overall health and fitness as we age.
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Laugh your Way to good health!
The Laughing Clubs of Mumbai have been quite popular for some time now. A "healthy exercise" which needs no club membership, done in groups can result in happier times. In a world filled with pressures and stress, laughter is truly the best medicine
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Elderly Playground
Japan has one of the world’s most rapidly aging societies. As a result, the number of elderly citizens who are in need of costly nursing care increases each year and a new nursing care insurance law was enacted in 2000.
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keep on moving
even very slowly but never stop...
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"Your body language shapes who you are"
An interesting talk by Amy Cuddy on the power of body language and its ability to change the way that we feel and see ourselves.
Partnering with Universities for an active mind
Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) at UCF is a community educational program for retirement aged individuals in the Central Florida Community.
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Keep It Fun... And "Just Keep Swimming"
In a recent trip to Florida to visit my husband's grandparents, we hit the pool with a few water toys and had a blast.
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Eat real food
Learn to exchange processed foods for healthy, real/whole foods that taste just as good, but leave you feeling better.