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Preconference day
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration
Fee: $79 per person for each preconference workshop
Preconference session
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Session: Pole walking workshop
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Creating “thriving” Nordic walking and pole exercise programs
This workshop explores Nordic walking and pole exercise programs, delving into why pole walking is a “gateway exercise” that activates the inactive. Discover why these types of programs are thriving in continuing care retirement communities—and creating thriving residents. Learn about safety considerations, appropriate walking pole anatomy and sizing, and delivering pole-walking instruction. And find out how to launch and promote introductory programs in your organization.
You’ll learn how to:
- Practice a variety of walking-pole exercise techniques, which can improve the physical, emotional, spiritual and social well-being of older adults.
- Earn an EMNW Senior Nordic Walking and Pole Exercise Specialist Certificate of completion while learning to instruct participants of varying ability levels in appropriate techniques.
- Launch, grow and sustain lifestyle-integrated community-based walking exercise programs—and attract even the most “exercise-phobic” residents.
Faculty:Tom Rutlin, BS
Founder and CEO of Exerstrider Products, Tom Rutlin is an internationally recognized fitness innovator and is considered to be “the father of Nordic walking.” Rutlin, an architect by training, has been a creative pioneer in delivering age-friendly Nordic walking poles, a variety of pole walking and exercise programs, and motivating presentations for people of all ages and abilities. He has focused on working with older-adult populations for nearly a decade.
Peggy Buchanan, MA
Peggy Buchanan is the director of fitness, aquatics and physical therapy at Vista del Monte active retirement community in Santa Barbara, California. Buchanan is also coordinator of the vitality wellness programming for Front Porch, a leading nonprofit senior service agency in southern California. She was named IDEA’s International Fitness Instructor of the Year in 1997 and International Program Director of the Year in 2002.
CEUs awarded
Fee: $79 per person for each preconference workshop
Session: Physical activity workshop
9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Bending the Aging Curve
Aging affects the body’s systems, reducing independence, safety and health. Exercise is an effective intervention, but each of us has a unique set of needs that dictate the best exercise intervention. Based on Dr. Signorile’s book Bending the Aging Curve, this workshop looks at how to use functional diagnoses to assess a person’s specific needs and design a targeted exercise program. It also explains how to structure a periodized training program.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize that the different physiological systems of the body (cardiovascular, neuromuscular, skeletal, etc.) have different patterns of decline during aging (aging curves) and understand the relationships between these patterns of decline and reduced health, independence and personal safety.
- Use functional diagnoses to assess the needs of older persons and how to use those assessments to develop targeted exercise and activity interventions that will most efficiently maximize improvement in each individual’s daily life.
- Discuss periodized training and how it can maximize benefits and reduce overtraining in older individuals while providing a vehicle for translating improvements in fitness into improvements in daily living, metabolic health and personal safety.
Faculty: Joseph Signorile, PhD
Joe Signorile is a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Miami, Florida, and a research specialist at the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center Geriatrics Research Center. Signorile has been involved in research using exercise to address independence and falls prevention for over 15 years. He has more than 50 refereed manuscripts, and 175 national and international scientific and 200 industry presentations.
CEUs awarded
Fee: $79 per person for each preconference workshop
Sponsored by SPRI Products
Session: Aquatic workshop
9:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
Splash! Off your feet and into the deep: deep water exercise as a symphony of movements
Explore how deep water unloads the body and provides a full-body, liquid weight machine workout from shoulders to toes. Discover the skills and drills that optimize training and keep participants safe and comfortable. And blend these skills into a Splash! Fluid Symphony workout, led by the WaterFit team and special guest David Dworkin, director of Conductorcise. Don’t miss this opportunity to flow into the deep with the Maestro.
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify deep-water exercise design, and discuss studies that examine deep-water efficacy for health.
- Lead a simple deep-water orientation and skills check, demonstrate the basic moves that create a framework for progression and variety, and apply a simple system of cueing that allows participants to challenge themselves.
- Integrate the essence of a symphony, dance and tai chi into patterns that challenge the core stabilizers by using buoyancy assistance/resistance and currents.
Faculty: Mary E. Sanders, PhD, FACSM, RCEP
Aquatics authority Mary Sanders is an associate professor in the School of Medicine and affiliated faculty at the Sanford Center for Aging at the University of Nevada, Reno. A Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Sanders also directs WaterFit/Golden Waves. She is an associate editor of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, editor/coauthor of YMCA Water Fitness for Health, and developer of the WaterFit aquatic fitness system. Sanders serves on the International Council on Active Aging Advisory Board.
Mary E. Sanders, PhD, FACSM, RCEP
Aquatics authority Mary Sanders is an associate professor in the School of Medicine and affiliated faculty at the Sanford Center for Aging at the University of Nevada, Reno. A Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Sanders also directs WaterFit/Golden Waves. She is an associate editor of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, editor/coauthor of YMCA Water Fitness for Health, and developer of the WaterFit aquatic fitness system. Sanders serves on the International Council on Active Aging Advisory Board.
David Dworkin
Conductorcise founder David Dworkin has led orchestras across the globe and performed as clarinetist with ensembles from the American Symphony to the Metropolitan Opera Orchestras, on CBS Television and beyond. He was also on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. Founded in 2002, Dworkin’s acclaimed symphonic physical and cognitive wellness program, Conductorcise, won an ICAA Innovators Award in 2008. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Columbia University’s Teachers College.
CEUs awarded
Fee: $79 per person for each preconference workshop
(Note: This session will take place at YMCA Aquatic and Family Center of Orlando. Participants should come ready to get in the pool, and bring water shoes and two bathing suits for the day.)
Session: Brain health workshop
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Cognitive rehabilitation and memory enhancement: evidence-based interventions for older adults
This cutting-edge course provides up-to-date information about memory, aging and dementia. Learn how to implement evidence-based interventions to slow or even reverse memory problems. Gain Web access to more than 300 cognitive rehabilitation activities and social support interventions for community settings. Learn how to take advantage of preserved cognitive abilities that allow even mid-stage dementia patients to learn new skills. Finally, find out how to motivate apathetic clients/patients, so they can take advantage of these breakthroughs.
You’ll learn how to:
- Describe the “Use it or lose it” theory of memory and aging, and review supporting evidence. Learn basic information about memory, why we forget, and how memory changes over the life span.
- Develop a foundational understanding of the neuropsychological basics regarding memory, aging and dementia. Discuss the different types of dementia, how each affects one’s ability to think and make new memories and their common treatments. And develop and implement effective cognitive rehabilitation enhancement programs for people of varying cognitive abilities.
- Review the latest research on how nutrition, physical exercise, mood, and social support affect cognition and develop interventions based on these new research findings.
Faculty: Robert G. Winningham, PhD
Robert Winningham is co-director of the Geriatric Wellness Center and chair of the Psychology Division at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon. Winningham has 16 years of experience in applied memory issues. For the last 12 years, he has conducted research on older adults and their cognitive abilities. Winningham helps develop programs to improve older adults’ cognitive and physical well-being and trains instructors to offer similar programs.
CEUs awarded
Fee: $79 per person for each preconference workshop
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