{"id":20765,"date":"2023-01-17T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20765"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:16:16","slug":"rural-seniors-benefit-from-pandemic-driven-remote-fitness-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20765","title":{"rendered":"Rural Seniors Benefit From Pandemic-Driven Remote Fitness Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Christina Saint Louis for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MALMO, Minn. \u2014 Eight women, all 73 or older, paced the fellowship hall at Malmo Evangelical Free Church to a rendition of Daniel O\u2019Donnell\u2019s \u201cRivers of Babylon\u201d as they warmed up for an hourlong fitness class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women, who live near or on the eastern shore of Mille Lacs Lake, had a variety of reasons for showing up despite fresh snow and slippery roads. One came to reduce the effects of osteoporosis; another, to maintain mobility after a stroke.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rural-seniors-benefit-from-pandemic-driven-remote-fitness-boom\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rural-seniors-benefit-from-pandemic-driven-remote-fitness-boom\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Saint Louis for Kaiser Health News) MALMO, Minn. \u2014 Eight women, all 73 or older, paced the fellowship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,33],"tags":[94,397],"class_list":["post-20765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","category-telehealth","tag-older-adults","tag-remote-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20766,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions\/20766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}