We are collaborating with civic, health, and community leaders to work with Blue Zones to improve the health and quality of life for residents of Pennsylvania’s 10th Senate District. Together, we are exploring common goals for improving health, mobility, community engagement, and sense of purpose amongst residents.
Happenings
Telephone Town Hall
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
7:00pm EST
Join Senator Steve Santarsiero and Margaret Brown, Vice President of Business Development at Blue Zones, and Kim Everett, Executive Director of Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership at the upcoming Telephone Town Hall to learn more about Ignite Bucks Area.
Blue Zones Ignite Bucks Area Community Keynote Event
Week of July 22, 2024
Time TBD
More information coming soon.
What We Do
READINESS ASSESSMENT
Blue Zones experts will collaborate with leaders to assess readiness and build a plan for change. During this period, we will: educate and mobilize local leaders and residents, evaluate the community’s current state of well-being, identify the highest priority strengths, challenges and opportunities, and produce and present a plan for community transformation.
ASSESSMENT AREA
The Blue Zones Readiness Assessment for Bucks Area will cover the 10th Senate District of Pennsylvania, including the following municipalities:
– Bristol Borough
– Bristol Township
– Buckingham Township
– Chalfont
– Doylestown
– Doylestown Township
– Falls Township
– Lower Makefield Township
– Morrisville
– New Britain
– New Britain Township
– New Hope
– Newtown
– Newtown Township
– Plumstead Township
– Solebury Township
– Tullytown
– Upper Makefield Township
– Yardley
FREE TOOLS
Blue Zones engages individual community members through online health and well-being assessments, the True Vitality® Test and the True Happiness® Test, and an interactive Blue Zones® Life Plan. All are available for free to all community members as part of the program. These customized online tools are designed to help raise individual awareness surrounding personal health and well-being, with the goal of increasing overall life expectancy.
MEET THE EXPERTS
The Blue Zones team is comprised of a range of inspirational, innovative community transformation and well-being experts.
“In an age when poor health seems so intractable, you’ve taken this community from a place of resignation to a place of hope.”
Dr. Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General after his orientation to the Blue Zones work in the Beach Cities, California
Want to Learn More?
Using evidence-based lessons of longevity from the blue zones, we optimize the Life Radius, where we live, work, learn, and play.
Life Radius
Blue Zones Activate focuses on optimizing the Life Radius or the area close to home where we spend 90 percent of our lives.
POWER 9
Residents of the original blue zones regions live in very different parts of the world. Yet they have nine commonalities that lead to longer, healthier lives.
Albert Lea: Operation Transformation
The Story of Lynn Stansbury
