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Cool Tips for Active Adults on Hot Days

News flash: It’s HOT outside!

Georgia temperatures have topped 93 degrees several times over the past week, leaving everyone feeling as if they’re about to melt into the sidewalk when they walk to the mailbox or take the dog for a walk.

As Active Adults (who enjoy putting the “active” in that title!), we want to both keep moving and stay fit while avoiding the problems that come from becoming overheated (a host of issues, known collectively as hyperthermia).

Active Adults Learn, Share, and Engage

While access to college campuses and in-person enrichment courses may be limited right now, opportunities abound for Active Adults to learn a new skill, improve understanding of concepts, conduct research in areas that are of interest to you, and more… and it’s as easy as turning on your computer or television!

YouTube isn’t just an entertainment vehicle. According to the channel’s Trends Dashboard, more than 60 million Active Adults view content on YouTube every month – 4 times more than teens!

Active Adults Embrace Technology: Online Movie Nights

As “staying in” becomes more familiar, recreating “date night” treats has become a popular pastime. From baking bread from scratch using an online recipe, to hosting book clubs and game nights via one of a host of online meeting platforms, Active Adults are adapting to new ways to live their best lives via technology!

Hollywood has jumped on the bandwagon, as well, offering straight-to-home options for new releases of blockbuster movies, allowing movie buffs to have dinner (or make their own buttered popcorn) while enjoying first-run films on a variety of platforms, including:

A Boomer Poem for 4th of July

inspired by America the Beautiful, as performed by Ray Charles

Oh beautiful summer afternoon

Enjoying life outside

I love my home, and every room

Is perfectly my style

How fortunate, how wonderful

This place I can call mine

My life’s success is happiness

A joyful life defined.

Active Adults Maximize Wellness With Walking

Under normal circumstances, keeping fit, staying active, fighting stress, and enjoying good health might be a walk in the park. And while these are by no means normal times, a walk in the park – or by the river, in the mountains, or anywhere you are in touch with fresh air, sunshine, trees, and suburban wildlife like birds and squirrels – is as good for the psyche as it is for the body.

Active Adults Creative Ideas for Community Celebrations

Father’s Day falls on the First Day of Summer – June 21 – which also happens to be the date of the Solar Eclipse. That trifecta is just begging for a memorable celebration!

With health and safety-distancing practices still in place, how does one celebrate in style? Bringing the party to the community and celebrating outdoors does the trick!

Boomers Set Standard for Distance-Gathering

Bunco gatherings. Picnics. Walking for fitness. Movie-watching parties.

These are just a few of the activities that define the abundant lives of Active Adults who have found the homes and neighborhoods that they now call home.

Believe it or not, these activities are still possible, while maintaining physical-distancing guidelines that help maintain health-safety.

Boomers FOCUS on Eye Health

Doesn’t it sometimes seem that, as soon as you have time to focus on the things you’ve always dreamed of – reading, traveling, taking up a new hobby – that’s the time when you start having trouble with your vision?

Boomers Celebrate Home

(A Boomer Poem, inspired by Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1970)

I’ll make the tea

While you tend the flowers in the courtyard garden. Hey,

We’ll prepare a healthy meal, and sit on the front porch and

Wave at neighbors who pause in walks to chat with you and me.

Innovative Ideas for Boomers to Celebrate Memorial Day

The first day of summer doesn’t officially happen until the middle of June, but in the United States, Memorial Day Weekend is traditionally recognized as the beginning of the summer season.

Like everything else, folks are getting creative in order to both honor the memory of fallen veterans, as well as maintain physical-distancing guidelines to maintain health and honor the medical professionals and other essential workers.