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The underlying message in the term “fall prevention” is  avoid falling at all costs.  Talk about fall prevention is coupled with facts and figures about how dangerous and lethal falling can be for older adults. Perhaps the messaging that is trying to protect people from falling is increasing the fear of falling and in turn…

Dr. Levy  demonstrates how our beliefs on aging impact our longevity and health status. Age beliefs, it turns out, can steal or add nearly eight years to your life. In other words, these beliefs don’t just live in our heads. For better or worse, those mental images that are the product of our cultural diets,…

Weekly Resource Roundup The Importance of Doing Deep Squats A deep squat is going below 90 degrees flexion in the knees. It’s also described as ‘ass to the grass’.  Kids do this all the time when they examine something on the ground, it comes instinctively to them. Our bodies are meant to do deep squats…