International Council on Active Aging® (ICAA) News

New education course for personal trainers

ICAA has added a new distance learning course (with continuing education credit) called SrFit: The Personal Trainer's Resource for Senior Fitness. For more information, go to http://www.icaa.cc or contact ICAA at 866-935-3777.

ICAA offers tips on how older adults can become more active in 2008

To help answer questions related to fitness-related New Year's resolutions, the ICAA created its "Welcome Back to Fitness" website, a site geared especially to the needs of older adults, offering a collection of checklists, questions, and answers, as well as guides to age-friendly fitness centers, equipment, and trainers. Check it out at http://www.icaa.cc/welcomeback.htm.

Adapted Physical Education Assessment Scale-II (APEAS II), American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR)

The AAPAR, a division of The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) that specializes in adapted physical education, has just revised a test teachers can use to determine which students are eligible for special education services in adapted physical education, and it is now available online.

For more information, visit www.AAPAR-APEAS.org or to order, go to http://iweb.aahperd.org and type "APEAS" in the "Title" field to search. If you have any questions, call 703-476-3400 or 800-213-7193.