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--JOURNAL ARTICLES--

Physical Activity, Older Immigrants and Cultural Competence: A Guide for Fitness Practitioners
Marianne Rogerson, Claudia Emes
Activities, Adaptation & Aging 30(4): 15-28.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=96330

The Utilisation of Group Process Strategies as an Intervention Tool for the Promotion of Health-Related Physical Activity in Older Adults
Cristina Caperchione, Kerry Mummery
Activities, Adaptation & Aging 30(4): 29-45.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=96331

Fall Prediction in Inpatients by Bedside Nurses Using the St. Thomas's Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly Inpatients (STRATIFY) Instrument: A Multicenter Study
Koen Milisen, Nele Staelens, Rene Schwendimann, Leen De Paepe, Jeroen Verhaeghe, Tom Braes, Steven Boonen, Walter Pelemans, Reto W. Kressig, Eddy Dejaeger
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2007 May; 55(5): 725-733.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01151.x?ai=100&ui=1cbze&af=T


--NEWS--

Novel Strategies For Healthy Aging
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Protein degradation and malfunction is a major cause of ageing and can be the result of attacks on proteins by other molecules. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070402102354.htm

Ambassadors volunteer to promote healthy aging
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Another ambassador, 73-year-old Jim Shore of Peters, writes tips on healthy aging in the newsletter he distributes to members of his 60-and-older golf ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07101/776717-114.stm

Healthy Old Europe
American Enterprise Institute - Washington,DC,USA
If western European governments learn to tap this potential, healthy aging could become the region's next great economic asset. Over the past generation, ? http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.26040/pub_detail.asp