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  • Health

Who Wants To Live To Be 100?

We’re celebrating Active Aging Week with with daily videos, articles, podcasts, and our complementary downloadable resource guide, Playbook for Active Aging: 7 Keys for Whole Person Health.

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  • Press

Senior Resource Alliance presents Growing Bolder Day

Growing Bolder Day is a free, intergenerational celebration of aging to promote the importance of an active, engaged lifestyle.

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Little Anthony Gourdine
  • Arts

Little Anthony Gourdine

At 82, Little Anthony Gourdine reflects on a legendary music career and the beauty of living in the present moment.

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  • Spirit

On Being a Grandparent

How is grandparenting different in 2023? We asked a small group of the Growing Bolder tribe, to find out.

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  • Rock Stars of Aging

Five Revelations from “The New Age of Aging” That Show America is Growing Bolder

The New Age of Aging, a landmark study conducted by Age Wave reveals “the beginning of a complete paradigm shift as today’s modern elders dismantle the long-held cultural beliefs and social norms about how older women and men should think, feel, and act.”   

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  • Sports

95-Year-Old Jack Eckenrode Breaks Record For Oldest Cyclist to Complete 20K at 2023 The National Senior Games

What do you hope to be doing at 95 years old? How about being the oldest person ever to cycle a 20K race at the National Senior Games?

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  • Business

Growing Bolder’s Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives Special

In this edition of Growing Bolder’s Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives, we highlight the lives of men and women in Central Florida. We share their stories because the passion, purpose and significance they find in their daily lives is attainable for all of us. We just have to believe that more is possible.

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  • Business

The Scoop on Allan Ganz : The Guinness World Record Holder for Longest Career as an Ice Cream Man

Allan Ganz spent 67 years putting smiles on faces, being his own boss and feeling like the richest man in the world. How cool is that? 

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  • Sports

The National Senior Games: A Life-Affirming Statement About What’s Possible

Why did Team GB show up to cover our third National Senior Games? It’s not for the stats or results. We do it to share the stories of Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives.

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  • Sports

July 17, 2023 at the National Senior Games

In our latest wrap up from the National Senior Games, Pittsburgh natives are showing us what it means to keep Growing Bolder.

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95-year-old Grady Kimsey Still Creates Art Every Day
  • Arts

95-year-old Grady Kimsey Still Creates Art Every Day

95-year-old Grady Kimsey has a piece in the Smithsonian and his work has been collected by celebrities like Robin Williams. He shares what keeps him working every day.

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  • Health

It is Darkest Before Dawn: A Story of Love, Loss and Sunlight

While acting as caretaker for his dying wife, Mark Potter found connection through sharing daily photos of the sunrise.

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