By Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Stretching exercises help keep your joints flexible, prevent stiffness, and may help reduce your chance of injury during other activities.
As someone who has always been something of an activist – I’ve been volunteering and active in the Latino community from a very young age – the same could not be said of my personal life when it came to my own health and well-being.
Compiled by Francisco Navas, The Guardian
We are Venezuelans, Cuban refugees, or Americans born to Salvadorian parents. We are Texans and Peruvians. We split our lives between Argentina and North America. We are men and women, black and white, religious and atheist, and everything in between. We speak English or Spanish – or neither, or both. We are US citizens or undocumented. We don’t all care about immigration and, our new president’s thoughts aside, we aren’t all Mexican.
By Glenn Llopis
Anyone who’s ever cared for a loved one battling a chronic disease or an aging parent in declining health will soon realize, as I did, that the caregiver ecosystem is much broader than you initially think it’s going to be. When my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and later moved to an assisted care facility, my mother and I were devastated. He was such an integral part of our daily lives, and still was, but now it was with a new sense of urgency as we became his front-line caregivers.