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Topic- ICAA initiatives
Promote Active Aging Week through public officials
As you prepare your list of Active Aging Week events, consider kicking off the action by reaching out to elected officials. Community outreach is likely already one of your organization’s goals. By extending that reach to elected officials, you can bring a local celebrity to your event, recognize your clients and organization, and garner additional publicity.
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Active Aging Week 2010: kicking off the planning stage
Older adults living life as fully as possible within the dimensions of wellness—that is the concept of aging promoted by Active Aging Week, the annual health promotion event spearheaded by the International Council on Active Aging® (ICAA).
Because wellness is a multidimensional model—one that encompasses physical, spiritual, vocational, intellectual, social, emotional and environmental wellness—a myriad of activities can enhance health and well-being. The key is to find the right activities for an individual. By offering everything from health fairs to lectures, brain games to concerts, dances to walks, and painting to canoeing, professionals in the ICAA community help older adults discover how to “be active your way”—the theme of Active Aging Week 2010.
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Touring the ICAA website by Krystyna Kasprzak, BA
With each New Year comes opportunities for fresh beginnings—and we respond by making resolutions to help us improve, progress and move forward. The International Council on Active Aging® had just these goals in mind when it relaunched the ICAA website on January 1, 2010.
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Measure what matters: using benchmarks as a tool for program evaluation by Patricia Ryan, MS
There are a lot of choices when designing a wellness program for older adults. What is the mix of wellness dimensions, and how can they be integrated? Should you add more classes and activities, or reduce the number? What is the appropriate level of staffing? Within the budget, where is the money spent?
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ICAA Conference 2009: ideas and observations
Why do you attend a professional conference? To update skills and learn new things, according to delegates who attended the International Council on Active Aging Conference, held in December at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. With a roster of 52 presenters, a variety of services and equipment filling the trade show, and interesting colleagues to meet and learn from, the stage was set to achieve those goals.
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Fun activities from Active Aging Week
Each year during Active Aging Week, ICAA’s annual health promotion event held during the last full week of September, organizers show they are experts at blending old favorites with creative new ideas. They also are committed to planning single and multiple activities that integrate the dimensions of wellness.
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