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Injury/Illness & Exercise

8/31/2017

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Steps to Consider Prior to Exercising After an Injury/Illness
An injury/illness usually leaves an impact on our body, we tend to have less energy and lack the ability to do things we use to be able to do. I was just in a major accident and it has been hard for me to sit back and let my body heal before jumping back into exercise. No matter what age you are or what your physical abilities are, an injury or an illness takes time to heal. It is so important that you listen to your body through your recovery, we all know how joyful movement is but we need to ease into it to prevent further injury.
Please consider these steps prior to reintroducing exercise into your regular routine.
  1. Ease back into it - maybe only do half of what you did prior to the injury/illness.
  2. Be patient - you may not have the same energy or strength that you had prior to the injury/illness.
  3. Start with walking or swimming - because these are gentle on the body.
  4. Pain is the body’s signal that you have gone too far or done too much - so please don’t over do it, listen to your body. We don’t want you causing further injury.
  5. Eat well - consume leafy greens & drink plenty of  water to reduce inflammation.​  
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Join Young at Heart S.T.E.P.S.

1/26/2016

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Oldest adults who walk briskly reduce risk of cardiovascular disease. The benefits of physical activity for heart health are well-known. However, minimal research has been done on the population of people 75 years and older.

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Organization to donate $10,000 to save senior exercise classes in Stanislaus County Senior foundation hopes someone will match donation

5/12/2015

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Young at Heart classes in outlying cities threatened

BY KEN CARLSON
kcarlson@modbee.com

The nonprofit Stanislaus Senior Foundation said it will donate $10,000 for the Young at Heart senior exercise classes, which are losing their grant funding in June.

Foundation President Elizabeth Price said the group’s board members approved the donation Monday after a story on the program’s funding crisis appeared in The Bee. The donation will be made to the Healthy Aging Association, which oversees the classes.

“We are hoping someone else comes forward to match it,” Price said.

Last week, Stanislaus County leaders agreed with a committee’s recommendation not to renew a $20,000 grant for the Young at Heart programs in Oakdale, Ceres, Turlock, Patterson, Newman, Grayson and Waterford. The exercise is considered important to health maintenance and fall prevention for seniors.

Loss of the grant funding is expected to result in some of those classes being cut in July. The 23 classes for seniors in Modesto are not affected.

A staff member with the Healthy Aging Association confirmed the foundation had offered the donation. The association is looking for funding sources to replace the $20,000 grant.

Founded in 2008, the Stanislaus Senior Foundation is a charity that works with the Area Agency on Aging and adult protective services to give emergency aid to seniors.

Ken Carlson: (209) 578-2321

Copied from the Modesto Bee article from 5/11/15
Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article20695077.html#storylink=cpy


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Modesto Bee Article (Monday 5/11/15)

5/11/2015

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By Ken Carlson
kcarlson@modbee.com

Teachers and students in a Friday exercise class at Oakdale’s Gladys Lemmons Senior Center had not yet received word that funding for the program will end in June.

The Young at Heart classes for seniors in Oakdale, Ceres and other outlying cities of Stanislaus County are more than fun and games.

The exercises improve flexibility, strength and balance, making the seniors less likely to fall at home and suffer serious injuries, teachers said. The workouts help relieve the effects of arthritis, diabetes and depression and help stroke victims recover, they added.

Gwen Tirrell, a 79-year-old assistant teacher in Oakdale, said the routines helped her overcome headaches, neck pain, hip pain and backaches, and restored motion in a shoulder.

“It stinks,” Tirrell said when she was told the county concurred with a committee’s recommendation to deny a $20,000 grant that has supported the program.

County supervisors gave approval last week to shift more federally funded community development grants to youth programs, causing seniors to lose out on funding.

Some of the Young at Heart classes in Ceres, Turlock, Oakdale, Patterson, Newman, Grayson and Waterford will be cut in July unless another source of money is identified, said Dianna Olsen, executive director of the Healthy Aging Association, which runs the classes.

No one has decided which classes will be cut. The Young at Heart groups in Modesto are not affected.

“We are just getting over being stunned,” Olsen said. “Not all of the classes will end. We will try to keep some. What I would like to do is find other funding.”

Last year, more than 1,450 seniors participated in the exercise classes, and 35 percent of them were in outlying communities, Olsen said.

The $20,000 grant paid for teachers, loops and straps and other gear for working the muscles and ligaments. Olsen is searching for other grant opportunities.

Kathy Sniffen, a member of the county Commission on Aging, challenged how $220,000 in public service funds were allocated to groups that applied for the competitive grants. None of those grants were awarded to senior groups, she noted.

Seven of the nine grants went to programs for children or youths; one was awarded to a food program and the other for services for homeless men. Sniffen said a community action plan gave top priority for the funding to children and youths. But seniors held the second priority, followed by the physically and mentally disabled. The latter group was not awarded any funding either, Sniffen said.

“There is a real discrepancy between how the funding was allocated and how community members ranked these priorities,” she said.

The recommendations for public service grants were made by a panel of representatives from the county, Ceres, Hughson, Oakdale, Patterson, Waterford, other local agencies and the county chief executive’s office.

In one change this year, $40,000 was set aside for a Focus on Prevention effort to benefit young people. Focus on Prevention is a county initiative to address the root causes of homelessness, gangs, crime and other social ills.

The $40,000 grant was approved for Central Valley Youth for Christ’s Point Break program to provide counseling for 160 youths and families identified through workshops at schools in the Ceres Unified School District. Counselors will strive to improve family relationships, reduce high-risk behavior and make sure the young people stay in school, the grant request says.

Point Break also has been implemented in Oakdale and Newman schools. Even though the broader Focus on Prevention campaign has not taken off, the grant is part of a county board directive to work on prevention, said Ruben Imperial of the chief executive’s office.

The Young at Heart classes tied for 10th in the scoring for public service grants and were not funded for the first time in 13 years.

Sandra Cordano, who attended Friday’s class in Oakdale with 30 other seniors, said her health depends on the exercise class. “What we are doing keeps me flexible and keeps my balance,” she said. “When you miss a class or two, you feel it.”

County supervisors said last week they need to shift the limited pot of community development grant money to other purposes. They want to concentrate more on prevention after spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year treating the symptoms of social decay.

“This is not easy, especially when we are changing things around,” board Chairman Terry Withrow said.

Ken Carlson: (209) 578-2321


AT A GLANCE
Public Service Grant awards for 2015-16 fiscal year in Stanislaus County
1. Salvation Army After School Program: $19,812
2. Second Harvest Food Assistance: $20,000
3. CASA of Stanislaus County: $20,000
4. Westside Family Resource Center: $20,000
5. Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children: $20,000
6. Oakdale Family Resource Center: $20,000
7. Second Harvest Food 4 Thought: $20,000
8. We Care Program shelter: $20,000
9. Children’s Crisis Center: $20,000
10. Young at Heart Program: zero


Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article20647866.html#storylink=cpy



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Book of Dreams

2/2/2015

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We were selected as one of the 10 organizations to be apart of the Book of Dreams in the Modesto Bee. You can read the article at A Book of Dreams: Young at Heart. We received over $3,400 from our community, THANK YOU!

Here is the article copied from the Modesto Bee Article:
Five years ago, Gwen Tirell couldn’t reach down to tie her own shoes or cut her toenails.

Now, the 79-year-old instructs a Young at Heart exercise class three times a week at the Gladys Lemmons Community Center in Oakdale. With the vigor of someone a few decades younger, she helps lead a class of about 30 senior citizens in an hour-long stretching, marching and strength-training regimen.

“I was in bad shape,” Tirell said about the Gwen of five years ago. In addition to her stiffness, she suffered from headaches and backaches. She credits the Young at Heart program, offered free of charge through the Healthy Aging Association, with the change.



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