Benefits of Dancing for Seniors
Who doesn’t love to start swaying their body or tapping their foot when they hear a fun song on the radio or one that brings back a great memory. Read more...
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What Is Self-Care?
Self-care is so important, yet it is often forgotten. Self-care means you are taking the right steps toward caring for yourself. Allowing yourself to be healthier, help and care for others, live your best life and accomplish what you need and want to. Read more...
Staying Active Indoors
We all know how important it is to stay active and healthy as we age. With Fall here and Winter creeping around the corner, more of us will begin to be inside much more. Read more...
Club Hope – Survivor 2.0 Class
Helping cancer survivors gain strength find hope and move beyond a cancer diagnosis. Read more...
Quality Senior Living
John Dugan’s mission to create quality senior living in Goddard, KS was inspired by his mother. Unexpectedly, he found himself as one of the first residents. John’s rehab therapy influenced the addition of the Lokomat, a state of art robot assisted treadmill, that rebuilds muscles after a stroke. Read more...
Meaningful Activities
Finding meaningful activities is so important. A chance to learn new things while having plenty of stimulation is key. There are many activities to pick and choose from that best fit your needs and engagement level. Check out these great options broken down into four categories. Read more...
Benefits of Exercising with a community
Rebecca Hegarty, Owner/Trainer of Club Hope Fitness talks with us about why she wanted to open Club Hope and the importance of getting seniors moving and shaking. Club Hope is all about living your best life no matter where you are right now. Read more...
Years aren’t the burden – disease is the burden
Tim Watt, MD, Neurosurgeon joins us as we discuss anti-aging. It’s genetics vs self-sabotage. Everything is the combination between the genes, your environment and lifestyle. Genes aren’t always the culprit or your destiny. A majority of conditions that weigh on people’s minds and bodies is not that straight forward, but you have the ability to make the changes with a healthy lifestyle Read more...
How Nordic Pole Walking Helps Seniors
Strength, stability on our feet and our overall level of fitness directly impacts what choices are available to us for where and how we live. Too many have the fear of being unstable, mistepping, tripping and are unsure when moving around. Recently Parkinson’s Connect joined us at our monthly Empowered Seniors Seminar at Botanica to demonstrate and talk about Nordic Pole Walking. It was such a great reminder on how important fitness and moving around is for EVERYONE. Read more...