Exercise your power to stand tall and prevent a fall
After a fall, Leanna Clark's exercise routine keeps her feeling steady and confident in her movements. Take these important steps for staying on your feet.
Microsoft is banning easy to guess passwords
When it comes to passwords, we can be our own worst enemy. Remembering a different cryptic password for every site is difficult and confusing. Here’s how to set strong passwords.
10 Wellness Apps to Monitor Your Health
Your mobile device can be a great asset for your wellness program. Here are 10 apps that you can use to check and monitor your health and fitness activities.
Making better choices for health
Emelda Harris lost weight and improved her health with help from her peers in a diabetes workshop. A new study shows the program is effective at improving diabetes management.
Senior Health & Fitness Day is every day at Oasis
“I love that I feel so much better,” says Ronnie Singer since she started a regular workout groove. She’s one of nearly 6000 Oasis people who have kicked up their fitness routine.
Fraud prevention works best with a little help from our friends
“We’ve all had one kind of experience or another, an attempt at fraud that we recognized for what it was,” says Dick Waits. Dick was a facilitator for a pilot project aimed at helping older adults stop scammers.
Making smart phones and tablets more kind and friendly
"I no longer have to rely on my reading glasses to see text messages on my new phone," says Kathy Eckrich, who got help by taking a Connections class, “Better Seeing and Better Hearing with Smart Phone and Tablets."
Get the Skinny on Sugar
Our Healthy Habits for Adults volunteers Joyce Rollins and Mary McFerson show where sugar is hiding out in your food, and how to eat less sugar while keeping things tasty in this video.
In the news
Oasis education and volunteer programs have been featured recently in major daily newspapers and TV news programs. See what they're saying.
Reading . . . a win-win resolution
Julie Blow zeroes in on a goal to add purpose and pleasure to her days. What's on your bookshelf?