Former Chief Air Force Surgeon and leading preventive medicine physician Dr. Roger Landry will speak about ‘The Simple Truths to Aging Successfully and with Resilience’ at The McCauley in West Hartford on Sept. 16.

Submitted by Christine M. Looby, Director of Communications, The Mercy Community

Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH is a retired, highly-decorated full colonel, former chief flight surgeon at the Air Force Surgeon General’s Office in Washington, and a preventive medicine physician who has spent more than a decade smashing stereotypes of aging and redefining the possibilities of older adulthood. He has conducted extensive practical research on the influence of lifestyle on the aging process and compiled his findings in his first book Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging, and is touring the country discussing his life-altering plan and referendum for change.

Dr. Roger Landry. Submitted image.

Dr. Landry will be presenting on September 16 at 7:00 p.m. in The McAuley Auditorium. While the event is free and open to the public, reservations must be made in advance by calling 860.920.6319.

Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing that evening.

Listen as Dr. Landry suggests:

• Ten empowering tips to age successfully, which include never acting your age
• How to include moderate activity/exercise into your lifestyle and reap great heart health benefits
• The importance of staying connected and having purpose rather than being marginalized as we age
• How to evaluate the risks and benefits of your lifestyle, and make a plan to lower threats to your quality of life and independence
• How stress “rots us from within”
• How to never again fail at making healthy lifestyle changes
• Why our elders are part of the solution to society’s challenges rather than the problem: a resource rather than a liability.

Dr. Roger Landry is a preventive medicine physician, author of award-winning Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging and President of Masterpiece Living, a group of multi- discipline specialists in aging who partner with communities to assist them in becoming destinations for continued growth. Trained at Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health, Dr. Landry specializes in building environments that empower older adults to maximize their unique potential.

He has been featured nationally and internationally on radio and TV with NBC, FOX News, ABC and CBS as well as BBC and 2GB radio. Dr. Landry has also written exclusive articles, and been called on as an expert in the field of aging, by publications such as US News and World Report, Huffington Post US/Canada, About.com –Assisted Living, Expert Beacon and eHow and makes regular appearances on MBLN. Dr. Landry was also featured in GRAND Magazine, Senior Planet, Journal of Aging and Health, Denver Post and ThirdAge, and his book, Live Long, Die Short has been endorsed by AARP and was a 2014 top pick of MORE magazine.

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