Seniors can significantly boost strength, stability, and independence with simple dumbbell exercises. Targeting key muscle ...

LEWISBURG, Pa. — Seniors inside the Lewisburg YMCA at the Miller Center watch a video about how to prevent themselves from falling and getting seriously injured. The YMCA and the Union-Snyder Agency ...

Older adults often find that issues of balance, flexibility and chronic pain can keep them from enjoying life as much as they should, but a free program starting soon aims to change that. Green Tree ...

Want to unlock the secret to better balance, stronger muscles and a brighter mood as you age? The answer might be right under you — your chair. Chair exercises for seniors can transform a simple seat ...

Yoga can be a powerful tool to help combat age-related issues such as loss of mobility and difficulties with balance. It doesn’t have to be particularly complex to achieve improvements in these ...

The answer could be yes, according to a promising study published in Innovation in Aging from University of Alabama at Birmingham Arts in Medicine. Compared with older adults living in single-dwelling ...

While tai chi is understood to be beneficial for functional mobility and balance in older adults, such benefits are not well understood due to large variance in research study protocols and ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Peter Finch—Getty Images, Vitalalp/Getty Images, Boris ...

Your sense of balance fades after 40—but it doesn’t have to. Here’s how to maintain it. Regular movement and balance training—like the kind seen here—play a crucial role in staying steady and ...

Taking a shower. Grocery shopping. Moving around the kitchen. Getting dressed. The underappreciated link between these mundane activities is good balance, which geriatricians say is key to maintaining ...

While you can slip and fall at any point in life, it’s more common with age. More than 1 out of 4 older adults take a tumble each year, and about 20 percent of these falls lead to injuries such as ...

The length of time a person can stand on one leg is a good measure of aging, according to a study that put older adults through a variety of tests to determine how balance, muscle strength and gait ...