Noon Seminar Provides Activities to
Increase Physical Activity for Older
Adults
A
simple activity such as chair volleyball
can help senior citizens increase physical
health by building lost strength and
stamina. Barbara Pfeiffer, M.P.H., OU-COM
geriatric medicine administrator; Suzanne
Croci, R.N.; and Sarah McGrew, OU-COM
social medicine patient services
coordinator, will present "Strategies to
Increase Physical Activity Among Seniors"
on Monday, February 21. The seminar will
be held at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital,
Room B-9, from noon to 1 p.m.
Specifically
designed health programs for older adults
and strategies to increase the physical
activity of older adults will be
discussed, Croci said. Older adults will
also be offered the opportunity to sign up
for and participate in health programs
sponsored by an ElderHealth Promotion
Grant from the Ohio Department of
Health.
Older
adults as well as health-care
professionals are invited to the program.
Physicians, social workers, counselors and
nurses can receive one hour of continuing
education credit for attendance.
The
seminar is part of OU-COM's winter 2000
continuing education series on geriatric
medicine and gerontology, held on the
first and third Mondays of each
month.
For
more information, please read the
full
text of this news release.
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