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AARP has partnered with Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) to take advantage of the power of online learning. Senior Planet has hundreds of online classes in multiple languages including English and Spanish which can help you broaden your horizons. Among the classes are weekly fitness and health classes, all taught by a live instructor on Zoom and can be found at www.seniorplanet.org/fitness
AARP has partnered with Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) to take advantage of the power of online learning. Senior Planet has hundreds of online classes in multiple languages including English and Spanish which can help you broaden your horizons. Among the classes are weekly fitness and health classes, all taught by a live instructor on Zoom and can be found at www.seniorplanet.org/fitness
Oddly enough, new research found that if you are unable to balance on one foot for 10 seconds, you’re twice as likely to die over the next decade. So if any of you girls were sent to charm school when you were young and taught proper balance and posture, now is the time to thank your mother. The peer-reviewed study was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine and found that poor balance is linked to frailty in older adults and one’s musculoskeletal fitness is a prime indicator of declining health.
Surprisingly, a recent AARP/Interloq study of people ages 50 to 79 found that as people age, they feel better about both their physical and mental health. Of those surveyed in the 50-59 year old age group that rated their health as good, very good or excellent, the results were 71% in physical health and 79% for mental health. This rose to 77% and 88%, respectively, for those in the 60-69 year old group and up to 81% and 94% for those in the 70-79 age bracket. “As people get older, their attitudes about aging become more positive because they realize, ‘It’s not as bad as I thought it would be,” said Manfred Diehl, a researcher in the psychology and attitudes about aging as a professor at Colorado State University. The biggest fear of those in the survey was losing their mental or physical faculties, becoming a burden to their families and having to give up their independence. Ironically, most people were more concerned about physical discomfort than life-threatening diseases. High on the list of concerns was weight gain, joint pain, loss of mobility and high blood pressure.