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Healthy Aging Regional Collaborative

In two years, 10,000 Americans will turn 65 every day, and will continue to do so for the next 20 years. More than 800,000 residents of Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties are age 60 and over. As these numbers rapidly rise, so does the need to effectively address the health and economic challenges of an aging society.

Introducing the Healthy Aging Regional Collaborative of South Florida.  Health Foundation of South Florida created and is dedicating $7.5 million in grants over five years for this initiative to promote and preserve the health of older adults. Since the Collaborative was launched in 2008, more than 6,400 older adults have learned how to stay healthy and independent through science-based healthy aging programs.

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Areawide Council on Aging
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Center for Healthy Aging

Health News Florida
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Never Too Old for Fitness

When NBC 6 News aired a program on the Healthy Aging Regional Collaborative's successful programs, class participants were not surprised. They know that age does not matter when it comes to enhancing life through fitness.

Being active has changed the lives of many older adults currently enrolled in the classes.

76-year-old Maureen Sanchez used to be sedentary. Now, three times a week, she participates in the Enhance Fitness program at St. Andrews Towers in Coral Springs. It’s designed for people over age 55 and incorporates cardio, weights and stretching in each hour-long class.

Washington State University researchers, who created the program, looked at results after 16 weeks and found participants had fewer doctor visits, decreased their medications and felt less social isolation.

68-year-old Dolly Carapazza has been living with lupus for 30 years. Enhance Fitness got her out of a downward spiral. She was using oxygen 20 hours a day and taking more than 20 pills. Now, after nine months in this program, Dolly is an instructor and only uses oxygen during strenuous exercise.

Through funding from Health Foundation of South Florida, the Healthy Aging Regional Collaborative classes are offered from Deerfield to Key West. To locate a class near you, please click on the Find a Class link at the top of this page.