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The Journal on Active Aging brings articles of value to professionals dedicated to older-adult quality of life. Content sweeps across the active-aging landscape to focus on education and practice. Find articles of interest by searching the article archives in three ways: Enter a keyword in the articles search bar; click on search by topic; or type a keyword or phrase in the general search bar at the top of the page.
Splendido at Rancho Vistoso: Embodying an ecosystem of wellness by Julie King, MS
Splendido at Rancho Vistoso strives to transform lives with an evolving holistic model and a wholehearted commitment to a personalized approach. The ICAA NuStep Pinnacle Award-winning life plan community combines enviable facilities and amenities, innovative wellness programming, and a campus-wide effort to support the individual, creating a beacon of wellness excellence for senior living.
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Reducing food waste makes sense for people, places and budgets by Sandy Todd Webster, MSFS
At The Culinary Institute of America last year, our cohort was assigned to record our food-related waste, compost and trash for a week. While it may not seem like much when you're cleaning up, the discards add up. While its implications for personal, organizational, community and planetary health often shock first-timers, food waste is a key target to expand (or begin) an environmental wellness initiative.
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Share your expertise at the ICAA Conference
At the ICAA Conference, you learn alongside others who engage with people so they can live their best possible lives. Speakers, side by side with attendees and exhibitors, generate ideas, information, questions, reflection and laughter. Have you wondered how you can share your knowledge and successes as a speaker? Discover how sessions and speakers are selected (and why you should consider sharing your skills).
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Creative Exchange: Top ideas for team-building
In today’s dynamic work environment, fostering a cohesive and engaged team is more crucial than ever. Recognizing this imperative, ICAA Conference attendees shared an array of strategies designed to bolster team-building during a Creative Exchange session. Participants each brought two ideas to be included in this group summary.
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Designing for well-being: How the built environment shapes our health by Colin Milner
As the concept of the built environment evolves, the significance of design for enhancing health, well-being and resilience has never seemed more crucial. Internationally recognized for her discoveries, research scientist Esther Sternberg, MD, brings critical insights to the relationships between mind-body interaction, illness and healing, and the role of place in well-being. In this article, she shares her strategies.
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Ginger Anzalone: Realizing lifestyles for living at Vesta communities by Julie King, MS
When invited to lead aerobics classes on a racquetball court in Taos, New Mexico, in 1982, Ginger Anzalone didn't recognize it as the beginning of a richly rewarding career. Today, she serves as regional president of operations for Vesta Property Services, and has pioneered and promoted fitness and wellness services for 40+ years. In fall 2022, her leadership as a wellness executive earned her an ICAA NuStep Pinnacle Award.
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