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Mayo Clinic Minute: Tai chi keeps seniors on their feet
Video taken from the channel: Mayo Clinic
Study proves physical activity helps maintain mobility in older adults
Video taken from the channel: UFHealth
Healthy aging for seniors
Video taken from the channel: AHSChannel
7 Easy Exercises to an Active Lifestyle (Full Version in English)
Video taken from the channel: HPBsg
Healthy Aging: Promoting Well-being in Older Adults
Video taken from the channel: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Healthy Aging: Promoting Well-being in Older Adults
Video taken from the channel: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Art of Aging Well
Video taken from the channel: Harvard Medical School
Cardio Exercise for Seniors Because endurance can decline over the years, it’s important to engage in some type of aerobic exercise. The National Institute on Aging recommends seniors shoot for 30 minutes of cardio exercise each day.Swimming has been identified as one of the best overall exercises for seniors. It’s gentle on the joints, great for muscle strength, builds the core and improves cardio.
One study has shown that swimming reduces falls among seniors by over 30%.Regular exercise offers great benefits for seniors, including an extended lifespan, reduced risk of falls, better muscle health, improved bone density, better sleep, reduced risk of a stroke or heart attack, reduced risk of developing dementia, and increased confidence and independence.”Exercise is almost always good for people of any age,” says Chhanda Dutta, PhD, chief of the Clinical Gerontology Branch at the National Institute on Aging. Exercise can help make you stronge.
Physical activity and exercise can help you stay healthy, energetic and independent as you get older. Many adults aged 65 and over spend, on average, 10 hours or more each day sitting or lying down, making them the most sedentary age group.One out of every three older adults experiences severe muscle loss, according to an analysis in Age and Ageing. Meanwhile, when it comes to fighting age-related abdominal fat—a marker for overall health—Harvard research shows that strength training is more time-efficient than cardiovascular exercise.In the end, of course, what’s important is not just how long you live, but how well — and physical activity is essential for maintaining your overall quality of life as you age, King says.
Older people who exercise are healthier, stronger, sleep better, perform daily tasks more easily and are less likely to experience cognitive decline.Without exercise, adults over age 50 lose 15 percent of their strength each decade, and those over age 70 lose 30 percent of their strength each decade according to an article published in.Pushups: This exercise works the same muscles as the chest press, but it also stretches them while training the core muscles to stabilize your torso and protect your lower back. Not many older people can do traditional pushups, with your hands and feet on the floor.
Exercise is good for you; it’s just a matter of making it a priority and a habit in your daily life. In the aging population, exercise has been shown to prevent disease, lower the risk of falls, improve mental health and well-being, strengthen social ties, and improve cognitive function.It’s best to start off with a simple balance exercise for seniors.
Here’s how you do this one: stand behind a steady, solid chair (not one with wheels), and hold on to the back of it. Lift up your right foot and balance on your left foot. Hold that position for as long as you can, then switch feet.I recommend yoga if you want to learn how to stretch.
Check for yoga centers in your neighborhood or at your local rec center or senior center. Check your local rec center or Y for stretching classes. Stretching classes are a great way to relax, improve your flexibility, and maybe even meet some new people!Strength Training. Muscle loss is one of the main reasons people feel less energetic as they get older.
When you lift weights, work out on machines, use resistance bands, or do exercises with your.Everyone can benefit from exercise, but as you age, it becomes even more important to stay active and get in your exercise. And certain exercises for seniors are extra important when it comes to maintaining the health and strength needed for everyday living.
Physical activity is an important part of healthy aging. Check out these articles, which were previously housed on the Go4Life exercise and physical activity website, to learn the latest on how exercise and physical activity can help you stay healthy as you age. Find tips on how to fit exercise into your daily life safely and get motivated to get moving!
List of related literature:
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| from Handbook of Theories of Aging |
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| from How to Care for Aging Parents, 3rd Edition: A One-Stop Resource for All Your Medical, Financial, Housing, and Emotional Issues |
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| from Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging |
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| from Fast After 50: How to Race Strong for the Rest of Your Life |
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| from Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts |
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| from Nutrition Through the Life Cycle |
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| from Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide |
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| from The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia |
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| from Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging |
35 comments
A lot of talk about what us scientist will be able to do in the future about increasing healthspan.
Not one word about the practical steps that have been tested and proved so far e.g. autophagy and fasting. eliminating sugar, regular exercise, Ketogenic diet.
Us ordinary folk want new information that we can put into practice NOW! (especially if you are a well 78 like me)
The art of aging well? SDA’s have mastered that art, according to every U.S. gov. study. Some will disagree with SDAs, for those who believe we are omnivores, I have spent years working at Seventh-Day Adventist restaurants, five to be exact, and these people that I met, grew up on that diet, I have met many that have never had meat in their whole life, being raised in an SDA family. Now, to prove you are wrong, you only have to ask yourself, what city in all the United States, is the only area of the U.S. of A. that is a certified “blue zone.” (an specific area where most people live over 100, and are in vibrant health ) The fact is, it is Loma Linda CA, a city of mostly Seventh Day Adventists. Their prophet, Ellen G. White, tells them that “not a morsel of meat is to be eaten” in Counsels of Diet and Food. In their restaurants they have no meat, no eggs, no fish, no dairy in the menu. All government studies (4) show they have the longest life span, the least heart disease and the least cancer. All of this proves we are not meant to be omnivores. And yet the greatest proof of all, is that the diet our Designer gave for mankind, in Genesis to Adam and Eve, was a plant based diet. I think God knows more than you my friend, and more than all the doctors and scientists in all the world. The problem is, is that people that teach that we are omnivores, choose to only look for evidence that supports your bad habits, and yes, eating meat is certainly a bad habit. It is the major cause of all chronic degenerative diseases, I should know, I have assisted quite a few doctors in my life time in the health field.
Stop with the moral and aging is natural bullshit.
Aging is the disease that drives all other diseases. Aging in itself is unhealthy and so “healthy aging” is completely illogical. Wanna age healthily? Don’t age.
The reason you see wrinkles, the reason you can’t run fast anymore, the reason your memory is getting worse, your vision is blurring is because your body is unhealthy, regardless of how you “look at it”, a disease you we are all born with. We are going to stop the aging process altogether, not “better it” Aging, does not belong in our modern society, it’s a primal function that serves no purpose anymore. Aging will be stopped and reversed. Let go of this “healthy aging” crap, it’s not real. Healthy aging is to not age at all. There’s a reason we find young people attractive, because youth is a sign of vigor and health. When you are looking at an old person, you are looking at a sick person, event hough they may not “feel” sick. We are all suffering from the disease we have named aging.
I believe he’s right treating one symptom one by one ignoring the fact there must be a root cause.
Video starts at 8:00
Summary of practical takeaways:
Speaker 1: some sort of anti aging pill may come out within a few decades
Speaker 2: having a positive attitude that embraces challenges helps prevent cognitive decline.
Speaker 3: use it or lose it. Exercise is a big deal.
This only has 2655 views after 3 months, while cat videos get millions of views within a week sometimes. Crazy world.
With our age span continually increasing and the number of older adults growing as well, this is such important information. More helpful articles related to aging well can be found here: https://www.partnersinseniorcare.com/category/healthy-aging/
I’m surprised diet never came up. A whole-food, plant-based diet is brain and heart healthy, but here they talk about looking for a drug to fix dementia.
Dear Dr. Sinclair. You are absolutely one of my personal heroes. I cannot thank you enough for what you do. Long life to you and your loved ones ✌️♥️✌️
Why? Its A Nuclear END… One Way, Or The Other….The Math Said So
TOP 7 FACTS ON HOW TO AGE GRACEFULLY?
https://easyfit.in/blog/blog-content.aspx?BlogID=24&BlogTitle=TOP%207%20FACTS%20ON%20-%20HOW%20TO%20AGE%20GRACEFULLY?
Joe Rogan had Dr Sinclair on his show and showed an interest in taking NMN so it would be nice to hear if Rogan has had similar results to Sinclair’s dad.
“And you’ll get a statin for your heart”……… That’s when I turned off.
Instead of telling us how to get Ferrari the girl is comparing it with Folkswagen:-) We do known the difference.
No such thing as aging well. Aging is always harmful. And the more aging the more harmful. Search Aubrey de grey, gennady stolyarov, zoltan istvan, ray kurzweil, natasha vita-more jose cordeiro, bill falòon.
Great presentation! Will these wonderful medicines be on the more costly side, or will it be available for the masses, in the sense that it will be affordable?
Video starts at 08:10 the lady at the opening is just introducing people and yapping about nothing and nothing.
Isaiah 65:20 No child will die in infancy; everyone will live a very long life. Anyone a hundred years old will be considered young, and to die younger than that will be considered a curse. Also John @, 1John 5: 11,13, John17;3 all promise ETERNAL LIFE for believers in Jesus.
Acts 2: 38 Repent & be water baptized for the forgiveness of sins and for the gift of Holy Spirit.
Mark @ The person who believes and is baptized is saved ; the person who believes not is condemned.
A lot of talk about what us scientist will be able to do in the future about increasing healthspan.
Not one word about the practical steps that have been tested and proved so far e.g. autophagy and fasting. eliminating sugar, regular exercise, Ketogenic diet.
Us ordinary folk want new information that we can put into practice NOW! (especially if you are a well 78 like me)
How does red light therapy research fit in with NAD & ATP and brain health?
Harvard has been so arrogantly wrong on so many medical issues I just don’t read, watch, or believe them any more.
An hour and a half to basically tell you that you have no hope of living long and well without Big Pharma’s costly drug cocktails. Nothing about behaviors and lifestyle changes common folk can do right now that would help them to have a better quality of life. Here is yet another example of an out of touch, snobby Elite institution that caters to the rich and has no clue nor desire to help society or the human race in general. Unless of course, you have the $$$…
Listening to this is a waste of time. Many put these profs on a pedestal. I am asking why? The majority of them (the profs) are compliant suckers. The guy with the least hair was involuntarily comical at the end.
Dr. Sinclair said we may be able to live the last 10 years of our lives as healthy as when we were in our 20’s or 30’s. If that would come to be, how would we die (as in “last 10 years….”)? Of an infectious disease? An accident? A new disease or one that is relatively unknown? It doesn’t make sense to me.
Thanks for this informative overview of the many ways in which seniors can positively impact their health and well being as they grow older. For more tips on the importance of helping seniors maintain healthy eating habits, this article is useful: https://seniorhomecareoftucson.com/overcome-senior-nutrition-problems/
Sometimes I hear The word overweight used when it comes to a health risk, but the vast majority of times I come across the word obesity. Overweight starts at BMI of 25 and obesity starts at BMI of 35, or so I’ve heard.
WHAT ON EARTH DO MICE HAVE IN COMMON WITH HUMAN BEINGS??? Who cares about rats? Why always test rats as a yardstick for us? Is there a god-rat also?
Sadly, this equates dementia with aging. This is good information but the title is misleading. This is about cognitive decline. Important but hardly all there is to pursuing wellness while aging.
Medical Science still see’s Alzheimer’s as a mystery but I think the community is closing the gap:-) #TheMedicalScribe
I have followed this set of exercise daily through the Circuit Breaker period and have adjusted my weight by at least 3 kg.
an excellent set of exercises. may i suggest that clarification should be built in for rest time in between these exercises. i
Please check out the chair Yoga videos I’m making for seniors! I share in the desire to help folks grow old with grace and dignity.
I enjoy these educational opportunities. I am so happy that you share them on social media. It would be wonderful to actually attend one of these public seminars.
As this video points out, remaining active helps seniors maintain mobility, which is very important as we age. As this article point out, remaining active also helps with fall prevention, which can have serious consequences. https://www.continuumcare.com/increase-balance-decrease-fall-risk/
This is a great, low-impact exercise that can help not only with physical improvements, but in reducing stress for seniors as well. More tips to help older adults thrive can be found here: http://morninggloryhomecare.com/tips-for-dealing-with-stress/