'You Can! Steps to Healthier Aging': AOA nationwide campaign
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The US Administration on Aging (AOA) is inviting organizations to become partners in a campaign called 'You Can! Steps to Healthier Aging' that aims to boost physical activity and improve food choices among older Americans. The partners with AOA agree to provide older adults with information, activities, or programs to encourage them make wise nutrition choices and increase their physical activity.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2004
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Hunger and aging
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Efforts made to understand hunger and food insecurity in elders, which is referred to problems with the availability, accessibility, and utilization of food, is presented. It is suggested that practitioners should use assessment tools to determine whether clients are experiencing food insecurity to better identify elders who may need assistance.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2004
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Fiction and social gerontology: the novelist Stanley Middleton on aging
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All the novels of Stanley Midleton display the aging and old age characters, and the experience of growing older is a core theme. A selection of these stories of aging focuses as a creative artist to understand, the idea of growing old.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2003
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