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The busy bees of Active Aging Week
When it was time to plan Active Aging Week last year, staff members in the activities and wellness departments at Brandermill Woods Retirement Community sat down for a brainstorming session. What would encourage residents to participate? How could the week include multiple dimensions of wellness?
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GenCare's Whole Food, Whole Life program supports living well for residents
With more than 28 years experience in real estate development and 20 years in the retirement industry, Leon Grundstein founded GenCare Lifestyle “to provide a premier senior living environment with options that promote a healthy and robust atmosphere.” From his years of being a sprinter at the University of Michigan to his current passions for running, yoga and playing softball, Grundstein has always known that “what you do with your body influences your quality of life.” So he initiated the Whole Life Living™ concept and began creating what he believes is a new approach to wellness—one that simultaneously improves, and protects, the environment.
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Older adults get WISE in New Jersey by Diane Liga, BS
It all started in the mid-1990s with an article in a local newspaper. A reporter happened to visit his mother, who lived in one of New Jersey’s many retirement communities, on recycling day. As he drove through the neighborhood to her house, he was amazed to see street after street lined with recycling containers overflowing with liquor and wine bottles and beer cans. Rather than simply shake his head, he realized he was witnessing evidence of a serious problem.
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Transforming New York into an 'age-friendly' city: a model program by Marilynn Larkin, MA
By 2030, 20% of New York City’s population will be over the age of 60. Today, life expectancy at birth is 75.7 years for boys and 78.7 years for girls. Most New Yorkers can expect to live well beyond retirement—in fact, close to 12% of the city’s population is over age 65, and in some neighborhoods, the proportion is as much as 20%.
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Auburn Hills' 100 Days to Health Challenge encourages lasting lifestyle change
In 2007, Senior Services developed the 100 Days to Health Challenge, a wellness program designed to encourage lasting lifestyle change and improve quality of life. This program has run for three successive summers, and aims to help Auburn Hills’ older-adult community stay “informed, educated, socialized and as active as possible at their level of fitness,” Chapman states. With participation increasing every year and many past participants returning, “we feel our program is making a great impact on all the people involved, and plan to repeat the program every summer,” she says.
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Selling wellness from the inside out by Amy Ostrolenk, MA, RN, L. Andrew Morgan, and Diane Doster, MS
Enticing people to adopt an active, integrated lifestyle, even when programs and facilities are readily available, can be an ongoing challenge. Far too often wellness program participation is dominated by those who have been living optimally most of their lives—those who are already intrinsically motivated; not the less active people who are the majority within any population group.
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