Movement Pulse · Aging well
Healthy-aging research and movement-method news for staying active over time.
What 70 older adults with memory concerns gained from a video program
Thinking scores rose, and about half the gain held six months later. Strength tests didn't pull ahead, and daily protein was included.
Nov 1, 2026
Why older adults with several diagnoses surprised the researchers
In their 70s and 80s, more conditions didn't mean smaller gains. Turning up often for strength sessions went with broader ones.
Oct 31, 2026
After 65, brain fog eased as much with slow, varied walking as with mental puzzles added
Walking sideways, backwards and in slow figure eights already asks plenty of attention, so a quieter walk may be enough to start with.
Oct 23, 2026
After 55, mood seemed to follow how much people moved, not how many hours they sat
1,190 adults in Western Australia, about 58 on average at the start, were checked three times over eleven years. As activity rose, signs of low mood tended to fall.
Oct 21, 2026
After 60, practising balance gave thinking a small lift, most clearly in mental speed
A review of 54 studies found that training to stay steady also nudged how quickly older adults think. A reason to give your balance practice your full attention.
Oct 16, 2026
For memory changes after sixty, twelve years of reviews keep pointing to slow practice
Mild memory trouble is a stage where a new practice can still be learned, and the research has moved on from asking whether slow practice is worth it to asking how many weeks it takes.
Oct 9, 2026
Brisk walking eased frailty more than strolling, and the stroll still helped nearly half
A Chicago trial in 14 retirement communities found a brisker pace moved more older adults out of frailty. Read the fine print and the casual walkers did better than the headline suggests.
Oct 5, 2026
Fifteen thousand people did the same digital knee program and went four different ways
A Lund University registry study tracked quality of life through a digital education and exercise program for knee and hip osteoarthritis. About half improved. A fifth got worse. The paper cannot say why, and says so.
Sep 22, 2026
The kind of exercise that helped attention most was the slowest one in the set
One hundred and ten trials, 8,130 people over sixty. No exercise type won across the board. The winner changed with the mental skill being measured.
Sep 10, 2026
What held up in two new reviews of yoga and qigong was not balance or strength
Twenty one yoga trials and twenty two qigong trials, published ten days apart. The physical scores wobbled once the missing studies were accounted for. Quality of life did not.
Sep 7, 2026
Why walking feels heavier at 70 than at 40 is not weaker calves, it is quiet gripping
A recent gait study across 107 adults ages 26 to 86 reveals a change in ankle coordination most people never notice, and points to attention as the intervention.
Aug 19, 2026
What happens to your balance when you rehearse the movement in your mind first
A new review gathered nineteen studies of older adults practicing movement only in imagination. The results were mixed, but the mechanism is one Feldenkrais has used for decades.
Jul 28, 2026Ready to start moving better?
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