Active Aging

If there’s one thing we’ve promoted, especially as an antidote to the perils of the pandemic, it’s to go outside and take a walk. Along with extolling the value of walking for your physical, emotional, and mental health, we’ve recommended some basic items to enhance the comfort of your walks….

Daryl Moss is the Founder of Mission To Wellness, a Nutritional, Health, and Wellness Coaching Service located in New York. Through individual one-on-one counseling as well as group sessions (all available virtually), she works with clients to provide concrete support and guidance as they journey toward better health and wellness….

No doubt most of us slow down as we get older. Getting out of a chair may take more effort and dashing out the door may not come as easily if you’re running late. In fact, research shows that after age 70, flexibility declines significantly, which may explain the challenge…

Face it: When you conjure up an image of a frail person, you likely picture an older man or woman, hunched over a walker and moving at a snail’s pace. And while that image may reflect a certain percentage of our senior population (Johns Hopkins estimates that 7-12% of adults…

Given the year we’ve had, you probably don’t need to be told to go out for a walk once spring weather is here. Cooped up by COVID, you’re more than ready to head out and walk, even without a firm destination. As we’ve previously touted on agebuzz, the value of…

Spring is in the air (even if the weather doesn’t always match)! And the usual impatience to break free and run outside is certainly exacerbated this year, as so many of us are approaching saturation point with the pandemic and are ready to re-embrace our former worlds. But are we…