September 2012 - Spotlight on Healthy Aging

This annual observance focuses on the positive aspects of growing older and encourages events that promote personal responsibility for one’s physical, social, mental and financial health. According to Carolyn Worthington, editor-in-chief of Healthy Aging magazine and executive director of Healthy Aging, it’s never too late to “reinvent” yourself.

EMBRACE POSITIVE AGING 

10 Tips for Reinventing Yourself at Any Age From internships and volunteer vacations, to eating fresh, dancing, painting and rock-and-roll

Healthy Aging Month Event Ideas From open houses to walk-a-thons to reading nights

Healthy Aging Food Good food, good friends, good life

Healthy Aging Physical Fitness What’s good for the body is good for the spirit

NIH Senior Health From the National Institutes of Health

Older Adults’ Health and Aging Related Challenges: Reality and Myth American Psychological Association Healthy Aging Month ecard and article

medicine.net Healthy Aging month facts and resources

Have questions or looking for ways to celebrate Healthy Aging Month?

Visit healthyaging.net or mail info@healthyaging.net. Healthy Aging® is a U.S. Registered Trademark.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

If you want to know more about this or other topics, email wellbeing@roosevelt.edu.

Learn Live and Love Good Health. Your Wellbeing Advisory Council