Aging Well

I am passionate about aging well and sharing wisdom gained through trial and error, trial and success. This year, I celebrated my fiftieth birthday, and I continue to grow, gain wisdom, and be humbled by how much more there is to know and be and do.

Aging well involves seeking balance, and frankly, aging well is easier if we have our health and enough wealth to provide for our needs. This lens will gradually focus more and more on these two key aspects of aging well ... health and wealth.

Humor

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Blogs and Lenses

grow older better: We all grow older; that 's not a choice - but how we age? That is a choice! Choose to grow older better!
Boomers! TV Blog: Redefining Life After Fifty premiered on PBS stations January 1, 2006, the same day the oldest Boomers celebrated their 60th birthdays.
healthforwomenover40: Women over the age of 40 have specific health care needs that are not always addressed, either by them or their providers. Our goal here is to simply educate women.
All you ever wanted to know about exercise and aging: This lens is designed to provide current and evidence-based information
about the benefits of exercise for older adults. It also includes
practical information about how to get the most out of your exercise
Time Goes By - What it's really like to get older: Time Goes By - aging and what it's really like to get older
National Association of Baby Boomer Women - NABBW - Empowering Women To Explore and Live Their Passions: Through writing, Dotsie Bregel invites women born in the baby boomer era to speak up and write stories about their experiences in life; friends heal friends.
Baby boomer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II.
Gen Plus -- Reinventing 50 Plus: It's a backstage pass to info on jobs, love and life at 50+. GenPlus brings meaning, respect and resources to you, the plus generation.
BalanceAndWisdom.com: Balance and Wisdom: Aging

Wisdom

Listen to others - glean wisdom

By listening to others, we have a unique opportunity to learn from their experience.

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Anti-aging Solutions

Perricone Promise author Dr. Nicholas Perricone - Official Web Site: Perricone Promise author Dr. Nicholas Perricone's Official Web Site.
Look younger, live longer - RealAge: RealAge provides personalized healthy lifestyle recommendations to help you reverse the aging process, look younger, and live longer. Take the Real Age test today!
The Wrinkle Report '05: At-Home Solutions: We've looked wrinkles in the face and said: not us. Explore the latest home wrinkle treatments and wrinkle products.
Dr. Weil on Healthy Aging: Would you like to live healthier longer? Join the premium Dr. Weil on Healthy Aging Web site, a companion to Dr. Weil's new New York Times #1 best-selling book. The site offers the latest information on healthy aging, the anti-inflammatory diet and recipes, community support, and the tools you need
Dr. Weil on Aging Gracefully: Start Healthy Aging with Dr. Weil. Discover exactly how you can age gracefully and age healthfully through Dr. Weil's anti-inflammatory diet, special fitness program and advice from Dr. Weil. Try Dr. Weil On Healthy Aging today for free.
Genes may reveal secret of long life - Aging - MSNBC.com: Researchers have found genes that may prolong human life while pushing back late-stage diseases.
Holistic Positive Psychology for Anti Aging & Wellness: Oprah featured author Dr. Michael Brickey shows the positive psychology for growing young and living on purpose.
10 Things That Age You: Cosmetic surgery might be the quickest way to reclaim a young, healthy look, but it's not the only way. If you focus on correcting the behaviors that add years and harm your health, you can turn back the clock. Here, the 10 unhealthy behaviors mentioned most often by anti-aging experts -- and how to reform yourself.
Aging Well - MSN Health & Fitness: Special Guide - Aging Well
Live Well Now: Dr. David Demko's Anti-Aging Plan to Youth'n Your Life: Live Well Now: Dr. David Demko's Anti-Aging Plan to Youth'n Your Life
Younger Next Year Homepage ? Turn Back Your Biological Clock: The Younger Next Year plan will take years off your life through motivations, personalized fitness and meal plans and expert Q&As.
MSN Lifestyle - Real Life Healthy Life: How Losing Weight Helps Your Health

Keeping your body mass index (BMI) at 24.9 or less could add up to eight years to your life, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Why? The higher your BMI (30 or higher is considered obese), the greater your chances of developing diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, gallbladder disease, or osteoarthritis. In fact, 80 percent of obese adults have one of these conditions, and 40 percent have two or more. These are the factors, experts believe, that eventually contribute to higher mortality rates in overweight and obese people.
U.S. Death Rates Drop Dramatically-Health News - MSN Health & Fitness: WEDNESDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Americans are living longer than ever, and the gender gap for life expectancy is decreasing.

Featured Article

Ten New Years Resolutions to Add Ten Years to Your Life
By Barbara Kimmel

According to gerontologist (aging expert) David J. Demko, PhD, genes play a minor role in the aging process. Maintaining your youth is all about staying fit, both inside and out.
Making these 2006 resolutions could add ten (or more) years to your life (without a minute of physical exercise or diet modification):

1. Have an annual physical exam

2. Volunteer on a weekly basis

3. Laugh and learn from your mistakes

4. Have a confidant who listens to your concerns

5. Engage in a daily mental exercise such as a puzzle or game

6. Get a pet

7. Join a religious group

8. Stop being afraid of growing old

9. Make friends of different ages

10. Open your windows and let in some fresh air

Demko outlines a simple, easy-to-follow strategy incorporating physical, mental, nutritional and environmental modifications that will slow the aging process. As Demko states, "He offers no "miracle" cures or dietary supplements, just pure common sense combined with scientific proof".

Demko, a Florida professor and aging researcher claims to have developed the "Original Death Calculator" while completing his PhD from the University of Michigan in the mid-70's, just prior to receiving a US Administration on Aging scholarship for advanced studies in aging. Since then, he has refined his calculator and presented his findings to the National Council for the Aging, the American Society on Aging and two Presidential White House Conferences. According to Demko, "The key to a long a healthy life is more than smart genes and dumb luck."

"His readers and their ilk may well be the beneficiaries of a newly elastic attitude about what defines age and attractiveness."- The New York Times

Barbara Kimmel is an award-winning book publisher, publishing consultant and publicist. She is the publisher of David Demko's new book, Live Well Now: Dr. David Demko's Anti Aging Plan to Youth'n Your Life.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Barbara_Kimmel

Habits

Habits of Mind: A Habit of Mind means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties. It means getting into the habit of behaving intelligently when you DON'T know the answer.
Lifestyle habits: Extensive research has shown that good lifestyle habits are critical to healthy aging. Infoaging's Lifestyle Center is designed to bring you the latest research and information on what you can do to lead a healthier, longer life. Just click on a topic below to find a description of and general infor
Lifelong Wellness: Helpguide provides the best non-commercial links focusing on mental health, aging well and elder care. Tips to promote Lifelong Wellness
Sleep Tips: Tips for a Good Night's Sleep: Sleep tips to learn what you can do during the day and before bedtime to ensure you get the quality sleep you need.
The Power of Positive Habits: Research Author reveals a Scientific Secret that will Show You How To Re-Program Your Mind and Body to Achieve More Success Automatically, Lose Weight Automatically, Improve Your Health Automatically, have Unlimited Energy and Motivation every day and much more!
12 Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle: For improved overall health, including lower cholesterol, higher energy levels and weight loss, try incorporating one new healthy habit into your life each month for the next year. Small, gradual changes in your lifestyle and diet can pay big health dividends, and best of all, this is a plan you can stick to!
Happiness: Optimism and Longevity: Is there a link between personality and health? In scientific studies, it?s not easy to prove that positive or negative attitudes affect health. Still, it stands to reason that optimism and a sunny disposition could contribute to long life...
Stay Healthy -- Practice Prevention: Preventive care, or care to prevent illness and disease, includes health tests/screenings, vaccines, and health counseling. Regular preventive care can help you stay healthy and live longer.
Forever Young : Tips For Preserving Your Health: The numbers are astonishing. More than 60,000 people in the United States are over the age of 100, and there are enough people over the age of 110 for them to have their own term: supercentenariums.

What's the secret of their long lives?

Communication

Share Your Wisdom

Tools to help you communicate the wisdom you've gained through trial and error, trial and success.

Project collaboration, management, and task software: Basecamp: Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas). It lets you and anyone else you choose keep your conversations, ideas, schedules, to-do lists, and more in a password-protected central location. Basecamp has a smaller cousin, called Backpack (see link below). Compare their features.
Both have free versions.
Confront Your Greatest Fear: Making Effective Communication a Worldwide Reality...Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication skills. Lose your fears of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in whatever path you've chosen in life.
Elder Wisdom Circle. Advice From Those Who Care.: Most cultures around the globe hold their Elder's advice in the highest regard. People will seek an elder for wisdom and guidance in all areas of their life journey. At Elder Wisdom Circle our mission is to share Elder know-how and accumulated wisdom.
The 5 Year Journal: The 5 Year Journal is an amazing tool that you can give to yourself and share with others.

Mind and Memory

Games: Puzzles, Word Games, Mind Games, Card Games
Free Online Games: Expert information and the best non-commercial links for free online games. In addition to being fun, online games can be a great way to stay mentally active as well. Keeping your mind active and alert will keep memories sharp and possibly help prevent memory loss.
MathPuzzle.com: Math Games, Math Puzzles, and Mathematical Recreations
Puzzles.COM Home: Puzzles.COM - the world's best resource for puzzling on the Internet - is about Puzzles, Illusions, Tricks, Toys, and everything around all these great Funny, Entertaining, Intellectual and Educational Things.
Yahoo! Games: Internet gaming community offering free multi-player games and games clubs.
Also news, reviews, demos, ratings, and cheats.
Brain Workouts with Computer Gamers a Hit with Baby Boomers: eDiets weight loss programs include Atkins Diet, Dr. Phil Diet, Shape Up Diet, Slim Fast, eDiets weight loss plan, diet recipes, New Diet Plan and more weight loss plans and healthy diet recipes.
Neurobics.com : Now Available in 22 Languages.: A unique program of brain exercise to help prevent mental aging. 83
neurobic exercises based on the latest neuroscience. Easy to do
anywhere,anytime.
Memletics Accelerated Learning Manual's Home Page.: Memletics Accelerated Learning Manual's home page. Find what you need to know about Accelerated Learning in the Memletics Manual.

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Activity

Personal fitness: exercise and personal fitness articles from Prevention magazine: Personal fitness articles from Prevention magazine include information on exercise and fitness.
Classical Stretch: Miranda Esmonde-White has been dancing her entire life; a natural beauty, her red hair reflects her distinct charm and her green eyes radiate her graceful style. The 52 year-old former Canadian ballerina recently found that fate had a great future in store for her with her creation of Classical Stretch ...
Joyce Vedral - Fitness & Good Health & Living: Joyce Vedral has become a legend in her own time!! In fact, in many ways, it was Joyce who gently edged the women into daring to pick up weights!! Yes, Joyce even got housewives from Iowa working out-as their bodybuilding son's stood by in awe. "Mom, I can't believe you're doing hack squats," became a familiar cry.
Where in the world of bicycling do you want to go today?: BicyclingWorld.com contains bike tours and cycling trips from all over the world. And we make finding the ideal bicycle tour easy.
Bob Greene Presents Total Body Makeover - Home: Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
Total Body Makeover An Excelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time
Aerobics and weights combined for a total fitness workout - TheFIRM Official Website: The FIRM body sculpting system combines aerobics with weights to dramatically improve your overall fitness.
Healthy Aging - Physical Vitality on Yahoo! Health: Physical activity builds physical vitality. With every year of your life, you have more to gain from being physically active; as your age-related risks of chronic disease increase, regular exercise generally slows or reverses that trend. 1 In fact, you're even more likely to notice the benefits of regular exercise if you already have a chronic condition, such as depression, coronary artery disease, or diabetes.
It's Not Your Daughter's Health Club Anymore - Fitness - MSN Health & Fitness: The 55-plus crowd is the fastest-growing segment of gym members in the United States
Urban Rebounder: Fitness jumping has been used in rehabilitative settings for over 30 years. With the URBAN REBOUNDING Program, this well-researched technology is now available as a Group Fitness approach to create the ultimate cardiovascular workout suitable for the gym.

Travel

Elderhostel: Elderhostel is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing extraordinary learning adventures for people 55 and over. From New Hampshire to New Zealand, South Africa to South Dakota, Elderhostel offers you a world of educational opportunities - at exceptional values.
ElderTreks - Exotic Adventures for Travelers 50 and over: ElderTreks is an adventure travel tour operator that runs small group, active tours in 50 + countries on the following continents - Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America and South America for people over 50 (fifty plus) including seniors. Trip itineraries are rated from easy to
VBT Bicycling Vacations: We have been the leader in bike tours for 35 years. We are committed to offering you exceptional quality and value. Enjoy time-tested itineraries, a variety of cycling routes, full van support, expert trip leaders, outstanding hotels, and regional cuisine.
Yahoo! Travel: Yahoo! Travel is a comprehensive online travel destination, where you can reserve cheap airline tickets, hotels, cars, cruises and vacation packages, all in one place. Research trips from a wealth of planning resources including destination and city guides, user and expert reviews, local weather.
Classic Journeys international outdoor adventure travel and small group tours: Classic Journeys, international outdoor adventure travel and small group tour operators
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy:: Creating a nationwide network of trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors to build healthier places for healthier people.: Creating a nationwide network of trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors to build healthier places for healthier people.

Skin Care

Skin Care and Beauty Information-- RealAge Health Information: One of the first places you probably noticed signs of aging is your skin. Aging can appear in the form of wrinkling, sagging, or spotting. Some aging is inevitable, but much aging effects of the skin are due to environmental factors, such as sun exposure and cigarette smoking.
The Effects of Aging on Skin - From the Cleveland Clinic: The Effects of Aging on Skin - From the Cleveland Clinic
Facial Exercise: Research shows increase in skin elasticity.: "FlexEffect® Facial Resistance Training is without doubt unparalleled in its field...
...It has proven to be the most aggressive and productive Facialbuilding program in existence today"
What Speeds Up the Aging Process? - Anti-Aging - iVillage Beauty Skin Clinic: Learn about how the effects of sunlight on the skin can speed up its aging process.
Face Aerobics with Judith Olivia: Exercises for a natural facelift.
Face Lift Free Facial Exercises Natural Non Surgical Mini Facelifts Isometric Exercise: Facelifting by Exercise Isometric Exercises Book - Natural non surgical face lift, free facial exercises for facial toning, natural facelift and double chin exercises, also facial exercises for brow lift, midface lift, cheek lift, eye lift. No more cosmetic surgery and blepharoplasty, try free facia
envisage - Exerciser Facelift. Safe. Painless.: Get the FACTS on WRINKLES
Exercise fights wrinkles. Failure to maintain muscle tone is a major contributor to wrinkles.
Welcome to Facercise: Facercise is a series of synergistic facial exercises which has been successfully implemented by hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide....to achieve an improved, toned, younger looking face.