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Topic- Wellness
Therapy to Fitness to Wellness: 10 strategies to improve older adults' quality of life by Susan L. Jackson and Christine R. Schnitzer
To serve as a roadmap for coordinating professional efforts, we developed and implemented 10 strategies for the Therapy to Fitness to Wellness program at the Fountains of Melbourne, a Kisco Senior Living community in Florida. This program has a three-year proven success record with independent and assisted living clients, ages 78–98 years. Outcome measures include a 400% increase in resident participation in fitness, aquatics and therapy (2000–2004); and a 50% increase in resident satisfaction scores (2001–2003).
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Living life to the fullest: what does successful aging really mean?
In 1998, the lead investigators of the 10-year MacArthur Foundation Study on Aging published a landmark book challenging many previous ideas about aging. Entitled Successful Aging, the book by Drs. John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn was part research, part education and part message of hope to an aging population.
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The journey back by Marge Coalman
Most of the homilies associated with fitness are based on truth. You cannot put fitness in the bank. Use it or lose it applies. And it is an inside job. But when the physically fit individual experiences a catastrophic, life-changing event- especially a life-threatening illness- a history of fitness can play a crucial role in the person's recovery and journey back to wellness.
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The wellness solution by Jan Montague
Modern day wellness has its roots indirectly embedded in the Eastern tenets of body, mind and spirit. Long before the Western world became aware of the importance of these three entities coalescing as one, early philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism subtly laid the groundwork for what we now call wellness. Out of the firm belief that the mind, body and spirit must coexist in perfect harmony and balance, the first real wellness model was born.
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