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Lynn Ketchum

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Mastery of Aging Well: A Program for Healthy Living

This five-DVD set focuses on healthy aging, and how you can acquire practical, research-based solutions to problems you or aging family members may be encountering. Topics include memory difficulties, depression, medication, food, and physical activity in later life. Also available as free online...

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Walk With Ease

Walk With Ease (WWE) is an exercise program that can reduce pain and improve overall health. If you can be on your feet for 10 minutes without increased pain, you can have success with Walk With Ease!

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Better Bones and Balance®

Classes and exercises designed to gradually improve balance and strength to avoid falls and maintain independence.

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Exercise Tutorials

View and participate in Better Bones and Balance exercises from your own home!

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Food Safety Tips for Older Adults - SP50-872

Food safety tips for older adults, who are most susceptible to foodborne illness.

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A Resource Guide for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children in Oregon

Publication explores a range of opportunities and challenges faced by kinship caregivers. It starts with common issues faced by family members caring for relative children and moves on to provide statewide and local resources for those families. Updated 2015.

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OSU fitness program helps arthritis sufferers

May 4, 2015
Participants learn to 'Walk With Ease' under the guidance of Extension-trained leaders

By Kym Pokorny | News Story

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Got Calcium? What form is best?

Do studies substantiate calcium gluconate is better absorbed by bone than calcium carbonate?

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