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Seniors Up & Moving: Staying healthy later in life | Afro

By Mylika Scatliffe Special to the AFRO LeCount Holmes has a passion for keeping senior citizens healthy. More specifically he wishes for seniors to be healthy, productive, and not to give in to aging. While working for SAGE (Seasoned Adults Growing Educationally), a program in Prince George’s County, Md., he decided to further act on […]

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