LONGEVITY GAMES
What are the Longevity Games?
These games consist of a series of activities that will be completed in collaboration with 1 or 2 students, from Saint John Fisher College, and are enrolled in “The Science of Aging” class. These activities will place a score on a variety of physical and cognitive biomarkers of Longevity.
What goal do the Longevity Games wish to accomplish?
Since age effects each individual differently, setting a baseline is critical to maintaining or improving scores. The Longevity Games wish to set this baseline in a fun, easy, and repeatable manner.
What can we do with the data?
Together, the senior and student collaborators will develop a personalized longevity plan that will focus on the particular wants and needs for maintaining or improving their specific senior's physical and cognitive abilities.
What are the Longevity Games?
These games consist of a series of activities that will be completed in collaboration with 1 or 2 students, from Saint John Fisher College, and are enrolled in “The Science of Aging” class. These activities will place a score on a variety of physical and cognitive biomarkers of Longevity.
What goal do the Longevity Games wish to accomplish?
Since age effects each individual differently, setting a baseline is critical to maintaining or improving scores. The Longevity Games wish to set this baseline in a fun, easy, and repeatable manner.
What can we do with the data?
Together, the senior and student collaborators will develop a personalized longevity plan that will focus on the particular wants and needs for maintaining or improving their specific senior's physical and cognitive abilities.
Jackie demonstrates the use of the InBody to measure segmental muscle mass and fat mass in a curious visitor to our poster session at St. John Fisher's Research Celebration Day.
LONGEVITY PLAN
What is the initiative?
The goal of the initiative is to make the scientific findings on longevity available and applicable to all, starting with the communities that would benefit the most. By using the data gathered in the Longevity Games, seniors and their student collaborators will produce a plan to maximize the senior's longevity through physical or cognitive activities and possibly dietary change.
How will the plan be produced?
The senior and their student collaborator(s) will review the senior's Longevity Games scores and talk about which areas they would like to maintain or improve the most. The students will then gather relevant peer-reviewed scientific literature in those areas that interest their senior the most (~2 areas) and develop a plan for their input and approval.
How will the plan be implemented and tested?
The seniors and student collaborators will meet about four times, for about an hour each session, over the next couple of months to discuss, demonstrate, and train. The plan will provide a schedule for the senior's approval that should be maintained until the end of the semester. A second Longevity Games will be conducted in order to see how well the plan has helped to maintain or improve the targeted abilities. See the schedule link below.
Schedule.
CONCLUSION
What does success look like?
Maintaining or improving quality of life by:
1) Gaining a better understanding of longevity.
2) Collaboratively assembling plans to improve longevity.
3) Empowering one to measure and improve their physical and cognitive health.
Interested?
What is the initiative?
The goal of the initiative is to make the scientific findings on longevity available and applicable to all, starting with the communities that would benefit the most. By using the data gathered in the Longevity Games, seniors and their student collaborators will produce a plan to maximize the senior's longevity through physical or cognitive activities and possibly dietary change.
How will the plan be produced?
The senior and their student collaborator(s) will review the senior's Longevity Games scores and talk about which areas they would like to maintain or improve the most. The students will then gather relevant peer-reviewed scientific literature in those areas that interest their senior the most (~2 areas) and develop a plan for their input and approval.
How will the plan be implemented and tested?
The seniors and student collaborators will meet about four times, for about an hour each session, over the next couple of months to discuss, demonstrate, and train. The plan will provide a schedule for the senior's approval that should be maintained until the end of the semester. A second Longevity Games will be conducted in order to see how well the plan has helped to maintain or improve the targeted abilities. See the schedule link below.
Schedule.
CONCLUSION
What does success look like?
Maintaining or improving quality of life by:
1) Gaining a better understanding of longevity.
2) Collaboratively assembling plans to improve longevity.
3) Empowering one to measure and improve their physical and cognitive health.
Interested?
