{"id":11206,"date":"2015-12-11T01:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T07:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:39:33","slug":"aging-matters-healthy-aging-premieres-thursday-nov-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2015\/12\/11\/aging-matters-healthy-aging-premieres-thursday-nov-19\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Aging Matters: Healthy Aging\u2019 Premieres Thursday, Nov. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aging is inevitable; the secret is to do so as healthily as possible and to learn to manage the changes aging brings. \u201cAging Matters: Healthy Aging,\u201d<\/strong> the sixth documentary in Nashville Public Television\u2019s NPT Reports: Aging Matters<\/strong> series, explores the pursuit of health and well-being as we age.<\/p>\n

\"HealthyAging<\/a>\u201cAging Matters: Healthy Aging\u201d <\/strong>premieres Thursday, November 19, at 8 p.m.<\/strong> and will be followed by a discussion recorded earlier in our studio with panelists Janet Jernigan, executive director of FiftyForward; Carol Orsborn, co-author of The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker’s Guide to Growing Older;<\/em> and William M. Petrie, M.D., director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center\u2019s Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Program. All three panelists are featured in the documentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, quality of life increases with age with two important provisos: No. 1, you don\u2019t get sick; and No. 2, you retain your cognitive abilities,\u201d Dr. Petrie says in the documentary.<\/p>\n

Janet Jernigan concurs. \u201cThere is a very close connection between health status and quality of life,\u201d she says in the film. \u201cIn fact, the research shows that people don\u2019t consider themselves as old until their health starts to fail, whatever age that is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAging Matters: Healthy Aging\u201d<\/strong> features Middle Tennesseans who are trying to stay fit, manage chronic conditions and remain socially engaged in their senior years. We hear from a 64-year old runner for whom the benefits of training outweigh the pain and possibility of injury, and from a man who found a renewed sense of purpose as a foster grandparent through a FiftyForward program. Medical and other experts interviewed in the film discuss the challenges of managing one\u2019s health when the effects of the habits and circumstances of a lifetime start to compound with age.<\/p>\n