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Living Longer, Feeling Better
Healthy Living: information for positive aging
Aging is one of today's hottest topics, and positive or successful aging is the promised outcome of a myriad of products, procedures, pills and prophets. While we should be suspect of these many claims to eternal youth, there are proven ways we can age more healthily. This Web site focuses on information for postive aging.
We all know that diet and exercise are important, but, did you know that research studies have documented that church affiliation, particularly active engagement in activites through your congregation, is a path to successful aging? People who take an active role in serving on committees report feeling younger than their chronological age and experience fewer health problems. Keep reading.
"Living Longer, Feeling Better" is designed for Presbyterians over age 50:
- to work toward achieving and maintaining better health
- to identify ways to add and keep meaning in their lives
- to learn and grow
- to take on leadership roles that contribute to their community and congregation
- to find support
- to enjoy and share the fullest measure of God’s promised abundant life (John 10:10) and
- to build stronger and larger networks for volunteer service, spirituality, socialization and sustenance.
Health information
Finding credible and reliable health and wellness information can be very challenging. The basic information is provided here to empower people to make good health choices and to provide a broad range of health-related information. Keep reading.
Healthy aging
 No longer defined and understood as the absence of symptoms or sickness, health is described as a balance of the physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual dimensions or aspects of one’s life.
For all age groups, but particularly for older adults, it is important to remember that the chronic aches and extra health issues that seem to accompany aging should not define older adults. Keep reading. |
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