#Community & Connection: SPARTA Strength at the Milano Senior Center in #Melrose, MA 💪🏾
📌The Benefits of Moving Together:
✅ Physical & Mental: Regular sessions help reduce the risk of cognitive decline, functional difficulties, and isolation.
✅ #Empowerment: Movement builds the confidence needed to maintain an independent #lifestyle.
At SPARTA Strength, we focus on more than movement — it’s about laughter, connection, and healthy #aging.✨
As populations decline and residents age in rural communities across the Chugoku region, livelihoods and traditions, including rice production, are either changing or disappearing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/02/japan/japan-aging-rural-rice-farming/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #agriculture #aging #rurallife #hiroshima #shimane
The bluntly named "Are You Dead?” platform rocketed to the top of the app-store charts in China before going viral globally. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/25/world/dying-app-chinas-latest-tech-obsession/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #aging #elderly #healthcare #ai #deepseek #eldercare
Improving the #safety and experience of transitions from #hospital to home: a cluster randomised controlled #trial of an intervention to involve older people in their #care (Your Care Needs You)
#Geriatrics #Frailty #Health #Aging #Ageing #OlderPersons #MedMAstodon
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/5/afaf142/8153625
#aging I do like the current campaign to persuade us to use public transport rather than drive. No preaching, no shouting, it’s just easier.
#aging I do like the current campaign to persuade us to use public transport rather than drive. No preaching, no shouting, it’s just easier.
👋 Hello Canadian 🇨🇦 Fediverse
Needing 🦽 Advice Please 👋
I would very much appreciate recommendations for companies/sources for a manual wheelchair for a disabled senior. ♿
The person using it is not capable of maneuvering an electric one and one arm is too weak to push himself using a manual wheelchair, so it's up to me, a senior to assist, therefore, it needs to be lightweight but sturdy enough for going over curbs and sidewalks, along country roads without a sidewalk, and to be safely anchored to a bus floor. (I do not want a 'transport' wheelchair --too flimsy)
Thanks for your guidance.🙂
Boosts welcomed
🛑 Stop Scrolling! Birthday Surprise 🎉
🎂 We wrapped up today’s SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center with ball slams, fast feet drill—and big smiles😅! I let the crew know Josie’s birthday is Friday, and they lit up the room with a spontaneous birthday song.
📣 Drop a comment to wish Josie a happy birthday!
#MaldenMA #fitness #birthday #joy #seniors #Community #smile #life #inspirational #health #fun #boston #aging
👋 Hello Canadian 🇨🇦 Fediverse
Needing 🦽 Advice Please 👋
I would very much appreciate recommendations for companies/sources for a manual wheelchair for a disabled senior. ♿
The person using it is not capable of maneuvering an electric one and one arm is too weak to push himself using a manual wheelchair, so it's up to me, a senior to assist, therefore, it needs to be lightweight but sturdy enough for going over curbs and sidewalks, along country roads without a sidewalk, and to be safely anchored to a bus floor. (I do not want a 'transport' wheelchair --too flimsy)
Thanks for your guidance.🙂
Boosts welcomed
In a Gifu Prefecture community in which roughly half of the residents are age 65 or older, people are helping one another with everyday problems in what could be a model case for an aging society. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/19/japan/society/japan-aging-society-mutual-support/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #gifu #aging #elderly #housing #volunteers
Marcescence
…still holding on 😊
Not senescence in this case 🤔
#GetOutside #Hiking #Nature #Walking #Creek #Marcescence #Senescence #Aging #Meditation #Photography
Marcescence
…still holding on 😊
Not senescence in this case 🤔
#GetOutside #Hiking #Nature #Walking #Creek #Marcescence #Senescence #Aging #Meditation #Photography
The role of pharmacists in geriatric #care: current evidence and practice
#Pharmacy #Pharmacology #Geriatrics #Frailty #Aging #MedMastodon
I have a doctor's appointment early tomorrow, but I just don't want to go to bed. More like I don't want to go see the doctor. He's a good doc. Very thorough, and kinda quirky.
I just don't like going to the doctor as I get older. Like, it's "oh look. Now THIS is falling apart."
The number of young people in Japan reaching adulthood in 2026 is the second-lowest on record. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/12/japan/coming-of-age-day-population/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #comingofageday #population #aging
Two large-scale studies have linked poor oral health among older adults to higher mortality rates and a higher risk of requiring long-term care. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/05/japan/science-health/elderly-dental-hygiene/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #instituteofsciencetokyo #osakametropolitanuniversity #elderly #aging #health #dentists
It’s not too late! #MindfulFallPrevention begins January 7th, sign up now!
This program is very low cost, even if you’re not a Portland resident. If 1-2:30PM Pacific time on Wednesdays works, you can join from anywhere!
Register today for five weeks of accessible movement, different types of meditation practices, and safety topics to reduce fall risk!
https://anc.apm.activecommunities.com/portlandparks/activity/search/detail/193156?
#YogaTherapy #Yoga #FallPrevention #PublicSafety #Aging #AgingInPlace
Japan is the fastest aging nation in the world. Now that we're closer to 2050 than 2000, how will that affect the generation now coming of age? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/japan/society/japan-2050-predections-depopulation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #depopulation #aging #demographics #teens #elderly #comingofageday #lifeexpectancy #rurallife #women039sissues
Are you an older adult who is interested in telling stories? Are you comfortable with computers, and interested in learning new ways to use technology to create exciting multimedia content? Would you like to tell stories that change people’s minds about what older adults are capable of? If you answered yes, then take part in a University of Manitoba research study exploring the effects of creating interactive stories on older adults' ideas about agism.
#aging #manitoba
https://celinelatulipe.net/create-interactive-stories-to-fight-ageism/
