My Elder Advocate

Wii by Nintendo: An Effective Way For Elders To Exercise and Have Fun

 

By Jack Halpern, CEO, My Elder Advocate

As I travel across the country visiting with my clients in Nursing Homes and other long-term care facilities, I find that a majority of our nursing home residents aren’t getting the proper exercise to help them maintain mobility and their health.

As you may be aware, at least 70% of our elders enter a nursing home because they require physical rehabilitation after a fall or stroke. They spend a brief time in the hospital and are quickly sent (some too quickly) to a rehabilitation center that most of the time is a nursing home.

Viktor Schreckengost: A man of many styles

As he turns 100, Viktor Schreckengost looks back on an art-design-teaching career that spanned more than 70 years and pushed the boundaries of design, visual art and functional art far into the 21 st century. Along the way, he also changed the way we live. One day, while he was out driving, he counted 32 items—from bicycles to street lamps to lawn mowers—that he'd had a hand in designing. Always, he says, his creations were a blend of art and utility. “I don't think there is any way to separate the two,” he said in an afternoon interview at his Cleveland Heights home.