Healthy Aging

This is the baby boomer generation. They are well educated, familiar with the Worldwide Web and are keenly interested in health, fitness, and living a full life.

This is the baby boomer generation.  They are well educated, familiar with the Worldwide Web and are keenly interested in health, fitness, and living a full life.  Boomers want to age gracefully, stay active, and want to live their life to the fullest.  Aging involves all parts of our body and all systems.  It is a gradual process that we can speed up or slow down by personal habits.  Aging is not a disease but it is a condition that will continue at its own pace.  We can try to slow down the process by using multihormone balancing, taking nutritional supplements, and taking antioxidant therapy.

Baby boomers are health conscience and aware of the newest ways of staying young.  They try human growth hormone, eating healthier, and stay active.  They do not take aging as a process they cannot avoid; they try postponing it as long as possible.  Botox, plastic surgery, tummy tucks, are considered normal for most adults in today's society.
Today's population is living longer; many are working past retirement age, and practice a healthy lifestyle.

Healthy aging includes eating a healthy diet, engaging in regular physical activity, and avoiding tobacco products.  They also are taking preventive measures to stay healthy and detect diseases.  They are screened regularly for breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancers, depression, prostate cancer and diabetes with its many complications.  Poor health does not have to be a part of the aging process.  There are effective ways to prevent or delay chronic conditions like arthritis, depression, osteoporosis, and urinary incontinence.
 
Baby boomers are banding together to make manufacturers aware of their tastes and alerting them to make changes in their styles to accommodate aging boomers.  Retirement communities are sprouting up across America.  You can live in a senior community and still live an independent lifestyle, stay in the same location for assisted living, and stay in the facility for long-term health care if it is needed. 

Those who are aging are demanding their rights to live and die as they choose.  They are computer savvy, traveling, and contributing to society.  They are not going into the aging process with an "oh well, it happens to all of us" attitude!  Those who are in their late 50's are taking care of their bodies, and longevity is increasing.  The population is growing older.  Just one hundred years ago, only three million people were over the age of 65.  Today there are more than 36 million who are 65 or older and researchers predict that by the year of 2030, there will be over 70 million of this age group in the general population.

Our aging population will have an economic impact in the years ahead.  More people will be drawing on Social Security; there will be a need for more senior housing, and enough medical programs to meet the needs of this generation.  Preventing disease and injury should be the number one goal of today's adult population.  Staying healthy while you are young will help you as you begin the healthy aging process.

Healthy Aging Issues Today

09/03/2010
Special events planned for Active Aging Week
Cumberland County Aging and Community Services, in collaboration with the local senior centers and the Carlisle YMCA, will offer multiple activities for older adults during Active Aging Week Sept. 19-

Special events planned for Active Aging Week

09/04/2010
Aging can be a battle
The North Platte Telegraph Watching an elderly parent struggle with daily life is hard. It can be even more challenging when that parent is resistant to receiving the help they need, either from their children or from in-home professionals.

Aging can be a battle

09/01/2010
Aging campus makes U of A air quality a growing concern
Matt Hirji , Sports Editor The University of Alberta Department of Environmental Health and Safety is making air quality on campus a priority, despite not having enough money for all the projects needed on an aging campus. read more

Aging campus makes U of A air quality a growing concern

08/29/2010
Aging philanthropist is Pakistan's Mother Teresa
The aging man in mud-splattered, frayed clothes has barely lowered his body onto the sidewalk when the money starts piling up. Heeding his call for donations for flood victims, Pakistanis of all classes rush to hand over cash to Abdul Sattar Edhi, whose years of dedication to the poor have made him a national icon.

Aging philanthropist is Pakistan's Mother Teresa

09/03/2010
Johnston aging council in turmoil
The Johnston County Council on Aging board kicked out one of its members Thursday following accusations that he slandered a fellow board member and had an inappropriate role in decisions regarding the fate of the agency's embattled director.

Johnston aging council in turmoil

09/03/2010
Special events planned for Active Aging Week
Cumberland County Aging and Community Services, in collaboration with the local senior centers and the Carlisle YMCA, will offer multiple activities for older adults during Active Aging Week Sept. 19-

Special events planned for Active Aging Week

08/29/2010
Aging philanthropist is Pakistan's Mother Teresa
The aging man in mud-splattered, frayed clothes has barely lowered his body onto the sidewalk when the money starts piling up. Heeding his call for donations for flood victims, Pakistanis of all classes rush to hand over cash to Abdul Sattar Edhi, whose years of dedication to the poor have made him a national icon.

Aging philanthropist is Pakistan's Mother Teresa