Try these Pennsylvania fun fall favorites. Make this fall season fun. Do something you have never done before. Meet a new friend, exercise outdoor, eat healthily and see life from a different point of view by engaging in these fun fall activities.
Apple Picking
Honey Crisp, Cortland and Keepsake, Jonamac, McIntosh, Gala, Empire, Red Delicious and Granny Smith. By now you must know I’m naming apples. Yes! With fall come apples.  Just in time for apple pies, apple jam, apple custard, you just name it. But before you kill the apples with all that sugar, think of the healt…

You better believe it—technology and information are changing rapidly and in a lot of ways for the betterment of our health. We have evidence-based studies, safer medical equipment and prevention and intervention programs to help us live the best possible lives. October is back, and it’s breast cancer awareness month around the world. What has changed? What new information have we learned about breast cancer to help us maintain and optimize our health?  Here is a survey of ten things you need to know about breast cancer in 2019.
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Today — September 23 — is the First Day of Fall and is Falls Prevention Awareness Day.  It is a day that calls for greater awareness of this important issue, which is a concern to anyone but especially to older adults.  And it is a day that calls for more than awareness.  In fact, it calls for people to take actions to help avoid the danger of falling.

The National Council on Aging (NCOA) created this short video highlighting 6 Steps to Prevent a Fall:

This video mentioned things like pursuing an exercise program, getting your ears …

According to Alzheimer’s Association, one way to keep the brain healthy “is to get as much formal education as you can, at any point in life. Formal education is classroom-based learning administered by professionally trained teachers. Engaging in this type of education will help keep your brain healthy and may protect your brain from developing dementia. This could involve taking a class at a local college or community center that teaches a new topic, skill or hobby (e.g., learning a language or how to play an instrument).” Or it could involve taking a class online. Th…

“You can call me anything, just don’t call me late to dinner…or elderly or geezer or old age pensioner!” Aging and the names we call ourselves or allow people to call us throughout our lives matter.

It seems there are two stages in our lives when it truly matters what people call us: when we are teenagers and when we  have “advanced beyond the middle of our lives.” These are the two significant transition periods in our lives.

In the first period, we are approaching the apogee of human existence, adulthood! Remember when you were a whole eight and a HALF?…