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The Rewards of Being Persistent in Getting Move With Balance® into your City
Preparation: A friend of mine from the University of Cuenca knew where we had to go to get Move With Balance® into the city of Cuenca’s elder programs. Social Accion. We had several meetings with them. The first meeting we waited a few hours to see them. We ended up...
Move With Balance® with Mentors and Mentees in Cuenca, Ecuador
Volunteers Needed For Low-Impact Exercise Program Who: We are looking for volunteers (known as mentors) to be paired with elders (known as mentees). The mentees are Ecuadorians from the city of Cuenca’s senior center. The pairs will practice the unique,...
Sensory/Motor Integration Workshop #2
We were invited to present again at a Sensory/Motor Integration Workshop at the University Of Cuenca for Adultos Mayores ("older adults"). Last time we presented to students, this time to 8 teachers from Cuenca. They all fully participated in our Move With Balance®...
Kay McCarroll Honors Move With Balance® in England
Sensory-Motor Integration Workshop at University for Older Adults
November 30, 2018 We were invited to present at a Sensory/Motor Integration Workshop at the University Of Cuenca for Adultos Mayores ("older adults"). We were thrilled that 40+ people attended, all of them fully participating in the demo of the Move With Balance®...
Neuromedicenter, Adult Day Care Center in Quito
We spent some time with Alzheimer's patients doing Move with Balance® with Music at the wonderful Nueromedicenter in Quito, Ecuador. This adult day care center is fun by a husband and wife doctor team, Lissette and Alberto. They...
University of Cuenca Adulto Mayor (for Older Adults)
We are teaching Move With Balance® with Music at the University of Cuenca Adulto Mayor (for Older Adults) two days a week. For gringos and locals. The book has been translated into Spanish and is available on the website. Patricio is doing The Elephant to improve his...
Short Video of the Cross Crawl
Here is a short 1 ½ minute video of us doing the Cross Crawl (from the “Move With Balance®: Healthy Aging Activities for Brain and Body” book). We are Hogar Cristo Rey assisted living facility in Ecuador. I am leading the activities, Bill is playing the original Move...
Move With Balance® in Sedona, AZ
Laura Vandegrift, a Move With Balance® instructor from Sedona, AZ wrote me this wonderful letter. I am including 1/2 of her letter today and 1/2 in the future. “Hi Karen: Just a quick update on my classes and some interesting stories and pictures. I have been...
Move with Balance Really Works!
I love it when this happens. David Kintler, from Port Saint Lucie, FL bought the Move With Balance® book in 2015. He contacted me March 18, 2018 and had this to say: “The first time I used your book/videos was to help me recover from a stroke about 3 years ago - in 90...
Awards and Recognition
Kay McCarroll Honors Move With Balance® in England
National Council on Aging (NCOA) Honors Move With Balance®
On March 6, 2018 NCOA (National Council on Aging) put out their newsletter on fall prevention. Cynthia Rockey from East Tennessee, a great supporter of Move With Balance®, read through the newsletter in detail and noticed that Move With Balance® was listed under...
Move With Balance® Fundraiser Concert
65 nonprofits, who work with people over 65, have been selected for a 65-hour fundraiser sponsored by Home Instead Foundation. 65 hours = Monday July 11, 7PM—Thursday July 14 12:00PM HST. Giving Back, our nonprofit organization on Maui since 2000, has created an...
Move With Balance® Goes Statewide in Maryland
We are excited to announce we will be presenting Move With Balance® to the AAA’s (Area Agencies on Aging) statewide in Maryland in November via a web-meetingWe received an email asking us “to share information regarding your innovative and effective program (Move With...
Mutual of America Surprises Us Again!
In 2009 Giving Back was a Merit Finalist for the Community Partnership Award given by Mutual of America from New Your City. They came to Maui, gave a luncheon to honor 60+ important people who were working with Giving Back at that time. They also gave us $15,000 to...
Move With Balance® is Launched Statewide in Arkansas
On January 12, 2016 I heard from the Arkansas Area Agency on Aging. Below are some excerpts: “We have launched Move with Balance statewide. Our seniors love this class. We have one center that had to run sessions classes per week because they had 75 people coming to...
NEWS FLASH !!! Move With Balance is featured in the November 5, 2015 Alzheimer’s Foundation of America newsletter!
Member Spotlight Move with Balance Paia, Hawaii Karen Peterson founded Move with Balance, an exercise program designed to help prevent falls and falls-related injuries in seniors in 2005. Upon receiving a grant from Alzheimer's Foundation of America, Peterson set...
American Society on Aging Blog
Republished from American Society on Aging website: April 7 2014 Move With Balance, which won the ASA 2012 MindAlert Award, has several exciting developments to share. Receiving the award gave us a hefty push to write a book, Move With Balance®: Healthy Aging...
Foreword’s 2013 Book of the Year Award Finalists Announced
National magazine selects "Move With Balance: Healthy Aging Activities for Brain and Body" in its search for the best indie books of 2013. Traverse City, MI, March 13, 2014 — Today “Foreword Reviews” the only review magazine solely dedicated to discovering new indie...
Mutual of America Foundation
Merit Finalist, Mutual of America Foundation. 10 innovative programs are nominated for special recognition, and are encouraged to begin replication of their program. See the full recognition article here.