Exercise

If you’ve been fortunate enough to live well into your later years, you may have a few bits of wisdom to share or ideas to suggest on how you’ve managed to live so long and prosper. Well, a new survey released by United Healthcare offers an in-depth look at some…

We’ve covered the important role of core exercises before, but it’s always valuable to update and underscore the essential role that core muscles play to keep you strong, stable, and capable of carrying out your daily activities. Thinking about your hips, pelvis, stomach, and lower back, those areas all have…

While aging itself is not a reason you’re at risk for falling, so many of the health and medical circumstances you face as an older adult do raise your risk. Consider some of these basic facts: From 1990-2021, there was a 182% increase in falls globally, with projections that the…

As the weather cools down and the air becomes frosty, you may hesitate to head outside for your daily walk, or you may decide that a few quick walks are more tolerable than a long and chilly stroll. But new research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine may encourage…

It’s been said there’s strength in numbers. When it comes to health, the older your age, the more important that strength, and the strength training behind it, become. Not only can strength or resistance training help build muscle, strengthen bones, and help reduce injuries from a fall, but the act…

For the last 40 years, October has been considered Breast Cancer Awareness month, a time to highlight for women the importance of early screening and routine mammograms to enable early detection and treatment of breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2025 alone, 316,000 US women will be…