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Doctors once warned older adults against vigorous exercise. Now many promote the benefits of physical activity as prevention against age-related decline. Dr. Laurel Coleman, a geriatrician in Augusta, Maine, gives her patients written prescriptions for weekly weight-training sessions. "Some of them say, 'Oh, come on, you're kidding!' because they don't picture themselves lifting weights," she says. "So we start off doing biceps curls with cans of soup, or leg extensions with tiny ankle weights...
...Geriatrician Linda Fried, director of the Center on Aging and Health at Johns Hopkins, noticed over the years that some of her retired patients suffered not only from loneliness but also from loss of self-worth. To address those problems, she and her colleagues developed a novel program called Experience Corps, which trains teams of seven to 10 retired adults and places them in elementary schools to provide classroom support to teachers in everything from reading and math to violence prevention. The team approach gives schools a critical mass of input from the volunteers. It also gives the volunteers something...
...Health Care in San Marcos, Texas, published the results of a two-year study of five Texas homes at which Eden is implemented. The study showed dramatic reductions in infections and behavioral incidents among residents and lower rates of absenteeism among staff. Later this month, Bill Thomas, the impassioned geriatrician who founded the movement in 1991, will head to Washington, where Eden will be the sole focus of a hearing before the Senate Committee on Aging...
...then-90-year-old Calment $500 per month in return for her apartment after she died. Raffray died last year at the age of 77 after paying Calment more than $184,000 for a place he never lived in. His heirs kept up the payments. A geriatrician called Calment "the Michael Jordan of aging," adding that you or I have about as much chance of living to 122 as of playing in the NBA. Calment herself said there's no real secret. "I took pleasure when I could," she said at her 120 birthday party. "I acted clearly and morally...
...average man who lives to be that age can, according to actuarial tables, expect to live an additional 11 years and four months. Dole's health report shows him to be solidly above average for this stage of life. "It's remarkably unremarkable," says Dr. Mark Williams, 45, a geriatrician at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine who reviewed the information for Time. "I'd be happy to trade lab results with him right...