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Healthy Living

Join in recognizing older adults for their contributions by helping them stay healthy, active, and engaged as they age.  Help the older Americans in your life maintain their strength and mobility -- attend a yoga, water aerobics, or dance class together.  

How Exercise Can Help You?

•Can help maintain and improve your physical strength and fitness.

•Can help improve your ability to do the everyday things you want to do.

•Can help improve your balance.

•Can help manage and improve diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis.

•Can help reduce feelings of depression and may improve mood and overall well-being.

•May improve your ability to shift quickly between tasks, plan an activity, and ignore irrelevant information.

The key word in all these benefits is YOU — how fit and active you are now and how much effort you put into being active. To gain the most benefits, enjoy all 4 types of exercise, stay safe while you exercise, and be sure to eat a healthy diet, too!

Talking with Your Healthcare Provider

Most people don’t need to check with their health care provider first before doing physical activity. However, you may want to talk with your health care provider if you aren’t used to energetic activity and you want to start a vigorous exercise program or significantly increase your physical activity. Your activity level is an important topic to discuss with your health care provider as part of your ongoing health care.

Ask how physical activity can help you, whether you should avoid certain activities, and how to modify exercises to fit your situation.