Category Archives: Fitness

Muscle Loss with Aging – The official medical term for age-related muscle loss is Sarcopenia. We stumbled across the article below that provides some great information that we think you might just like to read as well.

Swimming Might Be The Exercise That Helps in Preventing Falls What’s that you say? Another article about Preventing Falls! Well, of course, core stability is so important when it comes to fall prevention. (This article originally appeared on Grandparents.com.) Odds are you know an older adult who’s fallen at home. Perhaps the person ended up with a […]

12 Medication Safety Management Tips That May Save Your Life Medication Safety has never been more important than now! As we get older we start to take more and more medication. For some, it can be between 5 to 10 different medications per week. According to the American Nurse Today “44% of men and 57% […]

How to Manage with a Loss of Appetite as we Age! As we age statistics suggests that at least 30% or up to, will experience some sort of change in their appetite or loss of appetite! Do you have a loved one who is losing their appetite? I would love to know what you do […]

Seniors Group Exercise I’ve been writing a lot lately about how important it is to exercise as we get older. There are so many exercise options from weight training, High Intensity Interval Training HIIT, walking and Group Exercise programs. Ultimately the biggest take home from all the research is that a good balance between exercises […]

Fighting Frailty with High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). The University of Buffalo conducted a study with the purpose of determining if HIIT might help reduce frailty during the aging process. The results were published in the Gerontology Journal. Frailty puts people at an increased risk of death and also for multiple chronic diseases. The study’s results […]