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The Journal on Active Aging brings articles of value to professionals dedicated to older-adult quality of life. Content sweeps across the active-aging landscape to focus on education and practice. Find articles of interest by searching the article archives in three ways: Enter a keyword in the articles search bar; click on search by topic; or type a keyword or phrase in the general search bar at the top of the page.
Dance for older adults: a fun approach to exercise by Terry Ferebee Eckmann, PhD
If you want to increase physical activity among older clients, consider adding dance to your fitness/wellness programming. There are many reasons to incorporate dance into your activities. Dance to music is fun. And people are more likely to become and stay physically active if they enjoy what they’re doing. Dance can add variety to group fitness classes or a new dimension to services offered to this population. In addition, dance is a great physical activity—one that offers important benefits for older adults.
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Enrich the lives of older adults through civic engagement by Marge Coalman, EdD
As defined by the American Society on Aging (ASA), civic engagement with older adults encompasses individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public and personal concern that are both life enriching and socially beneficial. “Late life civic engagement can take many forms,” observes ASA, “from individual volunteerism to paid part- or full-time work to organizational involvement to electoral participation. A community can be a neighborhood, city, county, nation or the world.”
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The value of partnerships for Active Aging Week by Patricia Ryan, MS
During ICAA’s annual health promotion campaign in September, the organizations that host Active Aging Week events have offered everything from health promotion lectures and exercise classes to dances and health fairs. One of the advantages of hosting an Active Aging Week event is that you are free to offer activities that fit well in your local area. That flexibility presents a great opportunity to team with others to plan the week.
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The state of wellness programs in CCRCs
The passion and energy of the Baby Boom generation has redefined society for decades. Now, as this generation heads into retirement, its life-affirming values have spurred a cultural shift in the way people view and plan for retirement. For Boomers, whole-person wellness is not a concept, but a way of life. And they expect quality choices in how they spend the years of retirement rolling out before them.
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The Generational Resource Center: taking eldercare services to the community
Silicon Valley, situated in Santa Clara County, California, is associated in many minds with innovation, industry and the Internet. Notable companies in the area include Apple, Google, Intel, eBay and Yahoo to name a few, while younger entrepreneurs and employees abound. However, Santa Clara County is also home to 260,000 people over 60, as well as about 200,000 caregivers of older adults, according to the Council on Aging Silicon Valley. The Council’s mission “is to assist seniors, adults with disabilities, family members and caregivers to achieve independence and to improve quality of life as they age in place or care for those older family members,” says Mary Vadakkan, who is responsible for the Council’s community outreach.
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Successful grant program strategies for active-aging organizations by Terry L. Bazzarre, PhD
Regardless of the kinds of services many nonprofits provide, most depend on funds they raise from a variety of sources, and few have any significant endowment that provides them with financial security from one year to the next. Many of these organizations seek to identify foundations that may become partners in supporting their programs and services. However, numerous foundations may receive hundreds of grant applications in response to a single call for proposals, and generally fund only a small percent of the many promising proposals they receive. In this article, I offer you insights into why some nonprofits are more successful than others in submitting competitive proposals, plus tips to assist your organization’s fundraising plans and help you rethink your current approach to grant writing.
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