Gerofit can include individual and group-based exercises such as balance and strengthening classes. Program may include treadmills, bicycles, elliptical machines, and stair climbers.

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Marzell Scott is the first candidate chosen for the VANEEP Scholarship Pilot pathway for ICTs.

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Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Cristie Remmel, who served as a corpsman for field Marine force during Operation Desert Storm.

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What do I need to know about the Delta variant of COVID-19? You asked, we're answering.

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The Diffusion Academy brings employees with mature practices together from across VHA IE portfolios to train and support them.

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VA is announcing awards totaling nearly $800,000 in grants to develop new, Specially Adapted Housing technology for Veterans and service members.

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The American Red Cross continues to experience a severe blood shortage that is negatively affecting blood product availability across the country. Donors of all blood types – especially type O and those giving platelets – are urged to make an appointment to give now and help ensure hospital shelves are stocked with blood products over the Fourth of July holiday and beyond.

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It’s been 77 years and Johnnie Jones still sees the German sniper who tried to kill him as he came ashore on Omaha Beach for D-Day. “I remember it all,” he said. “Sometimes reminiscing is a terrible thing. I close my eyes at night and still see him. I lay down at night and as soon as I close my eyes, I relive the whole D-Day invasion.” Jones almost never made it to the beachhead that day. His ship hit a mine and he was blown from the second deck to the first. The explosion, “blew me sky high into …

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If sitting meditation is not for you, yet you want the benefits that come from these practices, you may want to try a gentle movement practice such as “Brain Break.”

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Statistics show that heat kills more people, on average, than any other weather-related hazard. Please be mindful of you and your loved one’s safety (that includes the 4-legged members of your family).

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