😅The POWER of Fun Group Exercise for Laughter, Camaraderie, and Shared joy.
👉🏽Ages 65-95 from my Malden Senior Center strength class are proving that age is just a number when it comes to staying strong, connected, and having a blast with Ball Toss!🏐
👀Eye-Hand Coordination
👣Fall Prevention & Balance
🧠Brain Health
🎯Social Connection
Gaia #CommunityCare and #Wellness Society, which previously held fall prevention workshops in #RichmondBC recently launched its weekly service navigation services at Richmond South Centre MLA Henry Yao's office.
Every Tuesday, #seniors who speak #Cantonese and #Mandarin can get help to #translate documents, contact government departments and apply or inquire about welfare and community resources such as dental services and HandyDart.
Tackling late-life homelessness in Canada
Jillian Alston, Stefan Baral, Aaron Orkin & Sharon Straus
Many #OlderAdults experience #homelessness in #Canada, yet current shelters & temporary #housing are not designed or resourced for them. We outline the magnitude of this large & growing #PublicHealth & #social challenge, describe the social & #HealthCare needs of older adults experiencing homelessness, and suggest potential solutions.
The #nonprofit group #Nanaimo Division of Family Practice (NDFP) were provisionally awarded a City grant on Wednesday, May 15 to help launch a social prescribing pilot project.
Il a osé le dire: "Je ne tape pas contre les seniors et les chômeurs, jamais !", assure Bruno Le Maire sur Inter, en promo pour son dernier bouquin ou pour redresser l'économie du pays, on ne sait plus trop... Le même hier affirmait dans le JDD, "nous dépensons trop, parfois pour des personnes qui ne le méritent pas". Il ne parlait pas des pauvres et des précaires...
Fitness folk, I am trying to talk my 80 year-old mother out of buying a “chair yoga” subscription programme from the Meta advertisers. I’ll do some searching of my own, but does any of you have a line on a good set of exercises for a senior with restricted mobility - needs to rest one leg because of a stress fracture. Neither of us is all that cognitively nimble, so don’t dazzle me with science, please. Just simple stuff. #fitness#seniors#ExerciseForSeniors
Old people should not be allowed to own karaoke machines. They tune the sound up ALL THE WAY and SHAKE THE WHOLE BUILDING because they're DEAF AND RUDE AS FUCK.
Case in point - our awful neighbour who sings old finnish tango music in random hours, INCLUDING AT NIGHT with volume so high we can hear it through thick concrete!