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Benched: Why We All Lose When Kids with Disabilities Are Shut Out of Sports

By Lara Stolman — 2015

Community leagues simply aren’t welcoming enough to kids with autism and other developmental disabilities, even when only slight modifications or support are needed to accommodate them. So parents are forced to create their own solutions if they don’t want their children to wither on the sidelines.

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When I retired from clinical practice several years ago, I let go into the unknown. I felt tentative, uncertain, yet knowing intuitively that I needed to heed the call.

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The Second Identity Crisis: How to Deal in a Smart Way with a New Phase of Life

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When Endurance Training Can Be Deadly for Older Athletes

This case shows the danger of one asymptomatic condition in particular.

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Age Shouldn’t Be a Barrier to Playing Competitive Sports

To stay healthy and fit, older people have traditionally been advised to take up gentle activities, such as walking and tai chi. But it’s time we added competitive sports to the mix.

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Claire Jenkin
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Can Exercise Reverse the Ageing Process?

We often confuse the effects of inactivity with the ageing process itself, and believe certain diseases are purely the result of getting older.

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Stephen Harridge, Norman Lazarus
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Age Like a Former Athlete

We may need to rethink what normal fitness is or should be in older people.

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Gretchen Reynolds
2017
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Play Out, Don’t Work Out

Play your way to a happy, healthy, and long life.

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Peter Gray
2021
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Parker Palmer on Autumn, Aging, and Acceptance

The author of On the Brink of Everything finds inspiration in nature’s cycles of death and renewal.

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Parker Palmer
2018
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