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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.
Asbury's Taste of America: engaging residents with multidimensional dining events
Asbury~Solomons Island is part of Asbury Communities, based in Germantown, Maryland. A not-for-profit senior living organization, Asbury Communities manages a system of continuing care retirement communities in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. With the mission of “Creating services for seniors that enhance the value of the life span,” the company introduced Sodexo Senior Services’ HealthAbility™ program throughout its campuses in early 2009.
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Wildlife habitat enhancement: good for wellness, good for business by Emily Voldstad, MS, and Katie Basiotis, MS
Global biodiversity—the number and variety of species on earth—provides people with numerous necessary resources, including food and medicine. The important role that many species play in our lives makes the conservation of biodiversity crucial. Unfortunately, global biodiversity has been experiencing a dramatic decline, largely as a result of human activity. Despite numerous strategies to address the problem, biodiversity continues to decline.
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Directions in active aging: trends in wellness development
The age 50-plus market offers tremendous opportunities for organizations that know how to meet the needs, desires and aspirations of their potential customers. Whether planning a new wellness center or expanding an existing one, upgrading or maintaining current facilities, or developing new or renovated residences, developers and operators whose projects target older adults need to make wise decisions.
Knowing the market is an essential first step. The age 50-plus population is diverse in many ways, including needs and abilities, so the choice of which market segment(s) to serve will color almost every decision when completing a project. The key to success, though, lies in understanding the active-aging opportunity and where the industry is heading.
Functional mobility in adults 50 - 70 years of age by John C. Griffin, MSc
Have clients ever had trouble getting in or out of a car? Are their recreational activities involving agility or balance a thing of the past? Is it becoming more difficult for them to carry groceries? These are all tasks that require functional mobility. Challenges in performing the above tasks and others may signal diminished functional abilities.
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NuStep celebrates the 'Pinnacle' of wellness
The recipients of the 2012 NuStep Pinnacle Award are The Garlands of Barrington in Barrington, Illinois; and Granite Reef Senior Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to a NuStep T5XR Recumbent Cross Trainer, each organization received airfare and a two-night hotel stay for a representative to attend the 2011 International Council on Active Aging Conference in Orlando, Florida. Steve Sarns, NuStep’s vice president of sales and marketing, presented commendations to these representatives at the December event.
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Strong shoulders: water exercise for rotator cuff health by Mary E. Sanders, PhD, FACSM, RCEP
Joan Stoltz is an active 77-year-old with a long history of exercise and active living. In 1997, as a member of the Golden Waves® functional water fitness study at the University of Nevada, Reno, Joan became an enthusiastic water exerciser. Since that time a series of rotator-cuff shoulder injuries have left Joan with pain that limits her ability to reach overhead, forward and backwards. She has completed a land-based physical therapy program and receives periodic corticosteroid injections to relieve pain. But her physician and physical therapist say there is nothing more they can do to help her. Joan is now back at the pool, wondering what she should do.
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