Community Matters Aberdeen Village
June 2016
Just Ask presents: Smart aging advice Aberdeen Village is excited to be a part of the 2016 JCCC/ KU Alzheimer’s Disease Center Healthy Aging Symposium, which takes place June 10 at the Regnier Center at JCCC.
From 1 to 10,000 steps: Putting one foot in front of the other By Don Wilson, interim chaplain
The topic is Smart Aging: Evidencebased Ways to Live Healthier as We Grow Older. This is open to health care providers as well as the public at large.
Like many of you, I wear a Fitbit on my wrist. I don’t know that I would have bought one, but I received it as a gift from my kids. I like it. It has increased my consciousness of how many steps I take per day. I have become fascinated by the number of steps I walk in a given day. Being just a bit compulsive, I have even been known to take a late evening walk around the block, after noticing that I was 500 steps or so short of my “magic 10,000.”
Contact Community Relations Director Suzanne Willey for more information at swilley@pmma. org or 913-599-6100.
“Steps” is a word used in so many ways. “One step at a time” can be helpful in keeping our perspective to avoid becoming overwhelmed. About eight decades ago, a couple of guys, one named Bill, the other Bob, discovered that sobriety could be achieved by following certain “steps,”
Don Wilson interim chaplain
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