All Entries in the "Health and Fitness" Category
Extreme Leadership: On Coaching Trust
If you feel your faults and defects prevent you from seeing the faults and defects of others, remember, you may be the only contact with God someone may have today. Be proud of that.” Iyanla Vanzant
I read that quote this morning. It is from Iyanla’s One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. One Day… is [...]
Respectful Aging LGBT Services
Loree Cook-Daniels delivered a comprehensive tutorial on respectfully serving the aging LGBT populations at the annual conference of AAHSA. She has a wealth of information on her website. Here are some of the points she made and there were more available. Respect is a must for everyone and in any situation:
Use the client’s terms: Reflecting [...]
When it comes to our health, are we poorly informed?
Is it fair to say that all of us would rather be healthy and avoid illness? Are we really lazy and not wanting to do the type of research necessary to fully understand the options that are available to us? Could I be eating better then I am, excising more? This much I know is [...]
London National Gallery-Aging Creatively Project
There is Positive and Continuous work done to learn more about how seemingly passive activities may result in providing our aging populations with ways to manage there wellness better. The London National Gallery has a program part of which is directed towards people who have suffered a stroke.
Ageing Creatively is a programme of practical art [...]
Positively Healthier – Something to Think About
One of the ironies of the hunger in the United States, unlike some other countries, there is no shortage of food, just an abundance of waste. Good food (our interpretation) is overpriced, food that is said to be not good for us, foods loaded with salts, sugar and fats, are under priced. So an inquisitive person might extrapolate from all of this, let’s get healthier/nourishing food to the people who need it
Not Always in our Best Interest
There are some things that we are pretty sure of, things that we know work and are are good for us. Yet we go out of our way to support efforts that are clearly not good and that serve to undermine what it is that we know will work. We continue to promote foods that [...]
Gail Sheey at AAHSA: Powerful words on Caregiving
People are living longer but this does not mean they are living longer well and without the need of assistance.
“Going to Chicago” AAHSA 2009 Annual Meeting
The United State is getting older and will need to shed many of its adolescent habits, much like Europe did after the second world war. How this country pays attention to its’ aging population in the 15 to 20 years will define what kind of country we are and have been. The issue of aging is as important as our concerns about “Climate Change”, Immigration and all types of extreme fanaticism.
Future Olympian
This is Kaylah who at a very young age was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. Without hesitating she said “an ice skater.” Well July 4th in Las Vegas, NV she won a gold medal in her division…with a lot of support and encouragement from her Mom, Dad, Grandparents, coach and [...]
Promises are tools that build dreams.
You’ve got a dream, a vision, a goal and you make a promise that by such and such a date you’ll do this or that action to make it happen. You either do it or you don’t. If you don’t for what ever reason, procrastination, fear, etc. you now have either your reasons, stories, rationalizations, [...]
