Love & Aging (A Podcast)

Do we lose our sense of romance as we age? Or is there room for love well into our 100s? Vista del Monte Retirement Community's Peggy Buchanan and and Rev. Laura L. Mancuso share their thoughts in this interview with BloomerBoomer.com.

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Rev. Laura L. Mancuso is the Spiritual Life Program Leader at Vista del Monte Retirement Community.

Peggy Buchanan is the Coordinator of Vitality and Wellness Programming for Front Porch and serves as the director of fitness, aquatics and physical therapy at Front Porch’s Vista del Monte Retirement Community. 

Front Porch is a not-for-profit organization, based in Glendale, California, that serves individuals and families through full-service retirement, active adult communities, affordable housing communities, and related management and development services.

Nourishing Memory and Brain Function

By Peggy Buchanan, director of fitness at Vista del Monte Retirement Community

November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, five million Americans live with the disease with that number expected to triple by 2050. But the good news is, even though it’s the second most feared health condition after cancer, lifestyle choices make a difference in how the condition progresses because our brains have the ability to reorganize by forming new neural connections throughout life in a process called “neuroplasticity.” Here are a few lifestyle tips to digest for preventing and/or reversing cognitive decline.

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