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(Of course, if you're planning on becoming much more physically active than you are now, you'll want to check with your health care professional first.) Making a switch Want to try something different?

Bushman, co-author of an American College of Sports Medicine book, Action Plan for Menopause (Human Kinetics, 2005), has this advice: Start out easy and slow.

Keep your intensity lower and the time shorter for your new physical endeavor than for your regular one.

Give yourself time to learn the specific skills or techniques needed for proficiency.

Consider your new interest an addition to your regular routine until you progress to your usual level of exertion.

Then think about fitting it into your overall fitness program.

Take a hike (or bike) If you usually walk for exercise, taking up hiking is just, well, a step beyond.

Hiking over natural terrain burns more calories than brisk walking (193 to 129 calories per 30 minutes for a 135-lb.

woman4) and it's lots more fun.

What's more, when you go hiking on a scenic trail, you'll usually spend more time at it than when you walk...

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‘Rosie John Doesn’t Live Here Anymore…’ One Family’s Journey In Eldercare’ by Tom Begert Clark exposes the fact that caregiving, though often filled with sadness, can be a wonderful, heartwarming and often humorous adventure.

This book, written by the adult son of aging parents, brings a different perspective to caregiving from the male’s point of view.

The following resources are Certified Senior Approved … See http://www.seniorsapprove.com/services.html Need sound advice on how to negotiate through the process of role-reversal?

As the child of an older adult, you may be experiencing great difficulty on how to suddenly become the authoritative figure in this scenario.

Mother is mother after all.

And now you, the adult child, must be the responsible party.

How do you handle the inevitable conflicts and remain happy and healthy?

Patti Bertschler will walk you through this process with simple and expert how to’s in, ‘Truce!

‘Using Elder Mediation to Resolve Conflict among Families, Seniors, and Organizations’.

Every family caregiver is faced with the challenge of organizing his or her parents’ paperwork, health directives, wills and so on.

Once you’ve done all this work, how do you keep it straight so you don’t have to do it again?

Jean Wales self-help book, ‘Do it Now’ and John Webb’s Caregiver’s Resource Kit are both great resources to help you with the paperwork nightmare - definitely a need-to-do task.

Need quick information in the wee hours...