by W. Diane Van Zwol

Created on: April 04, 2009

From A Nurse's Perspective: Baby Boomers, Become As Fit As A Fiddle

Is exercise important from a nurse's perspective? Definitely!

In the year 2010, the first baby boomers of this unique era, will begin to turn sixty-five years of age. Many baby boomers will officially enter into retirement, as seniors. Some baby boomers will enter into senior-ship gracefully and prove to be as fit as a fiddle. Others will become seniors less gracefully, seeming to be more like an old, worn out bicycle, with a broken chain and two flat tires.

Fine tuning a fiddle, is the key to its current relevance. For baby boomers, exercise is an important part of that fine tuning. Remember that old bicycles can often be repaired, but not always, if they have not been taken care of properly.

Registered nurses, working in many different settings, don't always get to see the baby boomers that are as fit as a fiddle. They usually see the ones whose health has broken down through lack of proper exercise, quite regularly.

So yes, from a nurse's perspective, exercise is vital.

But exercise, in its truest context, is more than physical exercise. Certainly, there is a fine line and delicate balance between aerobic and anaerobic exercise, that must be maintained, in order to stay physically healthy. This cannot be refuted, particularly in terms of heart health.

But there is something else that is just as important to your health, as physical exercise. In other words, there are other kinds of exercise that are important too. These include mental, emotional and spiritual exercise. These aspects of your life need to be developed further too. No one can do this for you.

How can you go about broadening this horizon in your life?

Thousands of articles have been written, about the relationship between physical exercise and physical health. There are increasing numbers of articles written about the other realms of exercise too. If you are a baby boomer, about to enter into retirement, begin to research these aspects of life, if you have not already started to do so.

Healing, health, happiness and wholeness always go in hand. Neglecting one realm of life in favor of the other realms can leave anyone, including baby boomers, in the position of having a potential health deficit.

The transition to senior-hood can be difficult for people who are not prepared to be seniors. This could prove true for some baby boomers over the next few years, if they are not ready to become seniors.

In reality, the majority of baby boomers

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