An Activist Approach To Aging

   
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Meet The Experts

Eric B Larson Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH
Executive Director and Senior Investigator
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative

"The active approach, which realizes the mind and the body are connected and both can benefit from that sort of active lifestyle is today's big message, and it's a new message because we didn't know this a few years ago."
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Temp Pepper Schwartz, PhD
Sociologist
Author, Prime

"We have a holistic approach to the body now and, and sexuality isn’t in some little black box that you know we untie or retie and then it doesn’t relate to anything else."
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Temp Maxine Hayes, MD, MPH
State Health Officer
WA State Department of Health

"And behavior is the largest contributor to health… about 50 percent of our health is really dependent on our health behaviors. Because behaviors can either be constrained or they can be supported, through environment."
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Temp Susan M. McCurry, PhD
Research Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health
University of Washington

"There is no perfect way to take care of someone who you love who is suffering from a progressive brain disease and is unpredictable. You just do the best you can and try to keep a sense of humor and try to recognize that the person you care about is in there."
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Temp Steven Kahn, MD
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Professor of Medicine, University of Washington

"The important thing would be as part of one health ones own health care approach is to ensure that your physician is actually measuring your blood glucose on a regular basis when you go to see them for your annual checkups."
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Eudora Eudora Lowery Carter
Diabetes Educator and Community Liaison
Center for MultiCultural Health

"But diabetes is the type of disease that affects everything, it affects your heart, it affects your cardiovascular system, it affects your nerves, it affects your eyesight. So it's not really something that you can play with or postpone to your benefit."
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Temp Lester W. Thompson, MD
Urologist
Group Health Permanente

"Most men just want to know well if I have prostate cancer, can you find it, can you treat it, am I gonna live any longer."
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Temp Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean, School of Nursing
University of Washington

"And so it’s a time that we often can sit back and reflect on how healthy we want to be for the future and what we might be able to do to make ourselves even healthier as we age."
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Temp Tom Douglas
Chef and Author

Tom is one of the Pacific Northwest's most widely recognized chefs and best-loved food personalities, and he continues to win acclaim via his restaurants, cookbooks, and specialty food lines. He provided some delicious low fat recipes for The Art of Aging.
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Temp Lisa Holtby
Yoga Instructor
Author, Healing Yoga for People Living with Cancer

"Yes yoga is definitely for everyone. There’s ways that a good teacher can modify every single pose … You can do a whole practice just seated, or lying down... you can work with a table behind you and your arms on the table for balance. Or you can work at a wall"
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Eric B Larson Bessie Young, MD, MPH, Associate Professor
Assoc. Nephrologist, Kidney Specialist,
VA Puget Sound Health Care System

"So I think that if people can be very proactive about their disease, like if they have diabetes or hypertension, that can help them adapt to change."
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Dr Susan Ott Susan M. Ott, MD
Assoc. Professor, Medicine - Division of Metabolism
Osteoporosis Specialist, University of Washington

"A lot of people forget that the bone is really very active, and even doctors, they think of it as just being structure, like the leg on a table. But the bone is always remodeling itself and filling in the cracks, making new bone. It is very alive and active, and if we didn't have that then our bones would eventually get a lot of little cracks and just crumble."
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Eric B Larson Soo Borson, MD
Director, Memory Disorders Clinic
University of Washington Medical Center

"... we in our culture have let our aging citizens down. That transmission of wisdom that we all idealize and think of as characteristic of village life in the old days when everything was wonderful, there is some truth to it that we have silenced in a lot of ways, our older adults as public voices."
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