Learn from Dr. Dan Ritchie as he discusses the increased health and fitness needs of the growing baby boomer population (the third largest economy in the world).

Dan was recently awarded the highest honor in his field, the Personal Fitness Professional Magazine Personal Trainer of the Year 2014, out of over 500 Trainers from 8 nations. Dan has a broad background in the fitness industry including training and management in commercial and university/hospital-based fitness, for-profit, not-for-profit and educational facilities. His primary areas of expertise are in personal training for special populations: athletes, pregnancy, blind, stroke recovery, Parkinsons, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimers, etc.

He has worked with Division I athletes some of whom have been professionally drafted. He has also worked on state funded research on exercise for severe dementia alzheimers type. He regularly presents at national and regional conferences and has been active on committees for the American College of Sports Medicine. He completed his Ph.D. in Health and Kinesiology, with a minor in Gerontology at Purdue University.

See video interview at: http://sterlinghealthandfitness.com/blogs/entry/functional-aging-an-interview-w-dan-ritchie-phd