FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Ellen K. Wheeler, 585-279-7490, ext. 12
Director of Development & Public Relations
Susan B. Anthony as a model for healthy aging:
brought to you by Susan B. Anthony House, HCR & MVP Health Care
Rochester, NY—Susan B. Anthony rode on horseback in California’s Yosemite Valley when she was in her seventies. At 74, she wrote to a friend, “I am in the midst of as severe a treadmill as I ever experienced, traveling from 50 to 100 miles every day and speaking 5 or 6 nights a week.” She journeyed to an International Woman’s Conference in Germany at age 84, a trip that took several days by carriage, train, boat, and coach. She faithfully followed a regimen of healthy eating and daily exercise, believing that inactivity meant stagnation, that it hastened both physical and mental decay, neither of which served her purposes.
MVP Health Care and HCR (Home Care of Rochester) have joined with the Susan B. Anthony House for an exciting new program on successful aging based on the life and words of Susan B. Anthony. The three organizations have developed Everything is Possible! Successful Aging with Susan B. Anthony, a one-hour seminar on healthy, active living and aging. Led by representatives of the Susan B. Anthony House and wellness experts from MVP and HCR, including a physical therapist and nutritionist, the interactive and entertaining seminar includes a Susan B. Anthony portrayer speaking her words from diaries, letters, and newspaper interviews about daily exercise, sleep, healthy eating, and other habits that contributed to her full and productive 86-year-long life.
The seminars will take place on June 22 at 1 p.m. at Legacy Park Crescent in Greece, 1000 Providence Circle, off Mt. Read Blvd., and on June 23 at 10 a.m. at MVP Health Care Wellness Center, 220 Alexander Street, Rochester. The cost is $5.00 for Preferred Gold and GoldAnywhere members and $10 for all others. Light refreshments will be served. To register, please call the Susan B. Anthony House at 585-279-7490 Mondays through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or visit the website at www.susanbanthonyhouse.org. The public is invited to attend.
Deborah Hughes, executive director of the Susan B. Anthony House, praised the program and the collaboration with two of Rochester’s premier health-care organizations. “There is so much Susan B. Anthony can share with us about healthy living. Not only is she an inspiration to us for civic engagement and reforming the world, but also she is a model of successful aging. We’re delighted to bring this aspect of her remarkable life to people today.”
Mission Statement (adopted 1/2007): The Susan B. Anthony House is a learning center through which we share and interpret Miss Anthony’s life as a champion of women’s rights, thereby inspiring and challenging individuals to make a positive difference in their lives and communities.
The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members and donors. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.
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