Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon Jan 05 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Notes:
Dr. Peter Nichol has a special interest in how the novelty and difficulty of complex neuromuscular activities, like juggling and ping pong, maintain and improve balance, coordination, and reaction time, particularly in seniors. This led to an interest in the concept of Super-Aging, i.e. 80+ year-olds with mental and physical capacities of decades-younger counterparts. In spite of major advances in understanding how we age there is no significant change in what can be done to slow the process. The best health advice to seniors has always been and still is “Live a healthy life style.”, “Keep Moving.”, and “Use it or lose it.”
About Dr. Peter Nichol B.A. M.D. FRCPC FCCS:
Peter Nichol has had a 54 years long medical career serving as a professor of Medicine and Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario. Also, he directed the UWO Research Centre for Activity and Aging. In Tanzania he has co-ordinated numerous aid projects. Mid-career he came to Canmore and ran the Cardiology Service for 26 years, retiring in 2020.
Active living has been a life-long commitment both professionally and personally. He continues to do multiple sports as well as teaching juggling. Daily crossword puzzles, Jeopardy, and studying French are his regular mental exercises. For fun he is a juggling clown.