Fall Aging Wellness Lively Lifefashion Expo Coming to the Rio Pavilion Ballroom

Optum – Nevada showcases its 45-foot Medicine on the Move Mobile Medical Center

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 11^th annual Aging Wellness Expo, Nevada’s largest interactive gathering for energetic adults, powered by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and offered by Optum – Nevada, heads to the newly renovated Pavilion Ballroom at Rio Hotel and Casino on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over 70 exhibitors shall be current on the occasion, providing a variety of providers in healthcare, residence enchancment, retirement planning, magnificence and wellness, and prevention screenings. Expo goers arriving on the occasion’s begin can take pleasure in a complimentary espresso and pastry station supplied by Intermountain Health and Select Health. Comprehensive Cancer Centers serve wholesome juices and snack samplings within the afternoon.

Attendees will have the alternative to tour Optum – Nevada’s spectacular Medicine on the Move, a 45-foot, state-of-the-art cellular medical heart that includes two examination rooms, a laboratory for urinalysis and blood assessments, a digital mammography unit, and a snug foyer. The cellular medical heart is outfitted with a wheelchair carry, restroom, heating, and air con, and travels all through the state to increase entry to care. While at the occasion, sufferers can schedule a wellness go to with Medicine on the Move; walk-ins are additionally welcome.

Inside the Optum Experience exhibit, company can find out about Optum and Southwest Medical’s care choices for each healthcare want. Three interactive stations will showcase Optum and Southwest Medical’s grownup drugs and specialty care providers, in addition to pressing care and neighborhood facilities. Attendees will obtain a primary help equipment and revel in quite a lot of actions, together with motion periods, music, line dancing, yoga lessons, video games, giveaways, and complimentary selfies at the Optum Experience picture sales space.

The Review-Journal Live Well Speaker Series includes a various lineup of prime specialists and audio system all through the day. Headlining the collection are the next Optum and Southwest Medical audio system:
9:30 a.m. – “10 Myths of Growing Old” with John Rhodes, M.D., President and CEO, Optum – Nevada
10:30 a.m. – “Connecting care with Community” with Erica Wiggins, Vice President of Optum Community Centers, Medicine on the Move, Maternal Child and Adult Medicine Pre-Visit
11:30 a.m. – “Preventive Screenings” with Gerica Alvarado, M.D., Southwest Medical
12:30 p.m.– “Why Southwest Medical Urgent Cares” with Charles Weintz, D.O., Medical Director, Southwest Medical Urgent Cares

The Live Well Speaker Series options various specialists overlaying varied participating subjects. Highlights Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Nikki Beecher’s presentation on “Sex After 60”, in addition to audio system from UNLV Lifelong Learning, together with Senior Audiologist Jennifer Joy-Cornejo, addressing listening to points and proactive care. Acclaimed writer and meditation professional Tsikki Thau will share insights on stress administration, whereas Tech Bud duo Ishan Abraham and Logan Yeager current “Mastering Modern Tech: Easy Tips for Everyday Life.” “Healthy Body, Healthy Mind” will be led by UNLV Center for Brain Health Donna Gould, MS, RD, LD, and Jennifer Nash, PT, DPT, NCS.

Joining the autumn lineup is Marla Letizia, founding father of The Long-Life Era ® and The Long-Life Mindset™ neighborhood, a worldwide collective devoted to 360-degree longevity and the battle in opposition to ageism. Letizia, joined by famend geriatrician Dr. Jean Bokelmann, will unveil the preview assortment of 24 recipes from their upcoming collaboration, The Long-Life Era ® Longevity Cookbook—a vibrant, science-based information to wholesome growing older by diet and aware consuming.

At the CenterWell Move & Groove Stage, attendees can take part in hourly health demonstrations that includes freestyle routines by Preston Nguyen and the Gx Presto squad, designed to energise and encourage. Meanwhile, the Pavilion Main Stage will showcase a mixture of expertise and leisure, together with a particular look by the Review-Journal’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Michael Ramirez. Also, reside performances by acclaimed recording artist Chadwick Johnson, the soulful voice of Kaci Machacyk, and a conventional hula showcase by Hālau Hula ʻO Kaleihoku. Adding to the principle stage lineup are hourly prize raffles and particular company all through the day. At 2 p.m. Viva Las Bingo! takes heart stage, hosted by Elvis impersonator Steve Connolly.

This yr’s RJ Village on the Aging Wellness Expo will showcase the total vary of the Las Vegas Review- Journal print and digital merchandise, together with the all-new neon, goguide, rj magazine, and unique subscription provides. Attendees will achieve a complete have a look at the RJ’s choices whereas having fun with meet- and-greet alternatives with the newsroom’s award-winning expertise. Featured company embody Executive Editor & Senior Vice President of News Glenn Cook, Opinion Columnist Victor Joecks, Assistant Business Editor Rick Velotta, Investigative Reporter Mary Hynes, Editorial Cartoonist Michael Ramirez, Metro Editor Mark Bowder, Sports Multimedia Journalist Dominic Lavoie, 7@7 Senior Producer Jon Archuleta, Digital News Anchors Lena Blietz and Cynthia Puga, and Multimedia Journalist Aniea Collins.

Optum-Nevada proudly celebrates its 11^th yr because the presenting sponsor of this extremely anticipated biannual occasion. Supporting sponsors embody Gold Sponsors Intermountain Health, Comprehensive Cancer Center, and SCAN Health, Silver Sponsor CenterWell, and UMC, Atomic Legacy Home Health, and P3 as Marquee Sponsors.

For real-time updates and schedules, go to and pre-register at AgingWellnessExpo.com and comply with Aging Wellness on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Facebook web page for the most recent information and insights on energetic existence.

About Optum – Nevada
Optum is the state’s largest multispecialty medical group with over 350 native well being care suppliers by Optum Specialty Care, Optum Primary Care, and Southwest Medical, plus entry to an enormous community of contracted main and specialty care suppliers by Optum – Nevada for Medicare Advantage sufferers. To us, success means the well being and happiness of our sufferers. That’s how we’re serving to to create a healthcare system that works higher for everybody. For extra info, please go to optum.com/nevada.  Optum – Nevada and Southwest Medical sufferers may also name 1-702-933-1383. Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health and Life members can name 1-800-382-0870.

About the Review-Journal
Since 1909, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has been Nevada’s complete media chief. Over the years, it has remodeled from an award-winning newspaper that delivers native and neighborhood information and spans the globe with far-reaching subjects and protection. The Review-Journal has cast into multimedia and digital platforms by its web site, Reviewjournal.com, which features a community of area of interest publications, breaking information, e-newsletters, custom-made content material, customized printing, a manufacturing studio, and extra to fulfill the precise wants of readers and advertisers alike.

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SOURCE Las Vegas Review-Journal