Helping Older People Stay Active At Home

There are so many helpful Youtube exercise regimes. Everyone should be able to find one that is just right for them.

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lizzypopbottle, so true (no good waiting until you're old and unfit). I don't feel a need for special exercises yet, though, as I'm very active every day.

Today, for example, two long walks with the dog, several hours gardening (mowing with a push mower, pulling up weeds and trimming trees from a ladder) - and after lunch, cleaning windows. Yes, I did sit down with tea for half an hour before the second walk. I believe too much sitting around, lack of normal exercise and really bad lifestyle/food choices (for decades) gradually cause so much illness, injury, weakness, unhappiness and frailty (conveniently considered 'normal' in old age) in our western societies. This study found quite a dramatic difference in (so-called) age-related health problems between countries:

www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/703031

Just a word of caution with Exercise 1 and with doing exercises when you are elderly.

This was one of the exercises I was given by the Physio and I ended up in A&E, I was asked what exercise have you been doing when I said this one she said STOP doing it that's the problem.
I had Plantar Fasciitis which later on because of how I was walking made the pain even worse with a pinched nerve in my leg. The pain was excruciating and it lasted 5 months, so be warned.
I have also had a neck injury doing Yoga and Pilates, still have damaged nerves down my face 4 years later.

I'm an older person 77 Yrs old please be absolutely careful when you do any exercise even the ones the NHS say you should do.
An exercise I was given last year caused Plantar Fasciitis on my right foot. This is a very very painful condition on the foot and you can only walk with a stick.
This in turn because I was walking differently caused a sciatic nerve pinch in the same leg. I was in pain for 5 months and A& E told me it was walking on my toes that would have caused this, an exercise I was told to do by a Physio in the NHS.

That’s great nipsmum. Unfortunately my impairments mean I have to do my exercises every day to prevent my mobility issues from getting worse. I can only walk a few metres so going out for a walk 3 times a day isn’t an option

I walk my 2 dogs 3 times a day. I cook, I bake, I knit, I don't really have the need to exercise thank goodness. It is always wise as we get older to keep brains as well as muscles in good working order.

A Physiotherapist gave me those exercises to do, following my stroke in July.

Meryl Streep
Thankyou!. Am now thinking what an idiot I am as I should have thought of googling Theraband myself. All I need now is the will power and motivation to exercise regularly! Is there a Youtibe video on that, I wonder!!

I have been following Yes2next on utube for simple exercises for seniors or beginners. Some of them are for cardiovascular too. I have not been going to the gym since the pandemic started so these exercises can be carried out wherever you have a little space indoors. youtu.be/HB21F-PqVW4 and youtu.be/jkaX-YbOi3I

I can also agree with Monica. The chair exercises for Tai Chi are very good. I had a Tai Chi teacher come to the house to show my husband after he was incapacitated after a reconstructed leg op. It definitely helped him

This is a good demonstration on YouTube.
You can bring this up on your TV for better viewing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BcPHWGQO44

Thank you Blossoming and Polnan for the links. Very useful.

Thank you , have printed off. Will go on kitchen wall beside my Amsler Grid for checking/doing every day.

Thank you, Blossoming, my only exercise now is walking round the park. We haven't returned to our Aquafit class since the pandemic began.

Callistemon, I have WhatsApped it to my sisters, that way I can always find it on my phone. If I email it to myself I'll be able to use it on the bigger screen on my Kindle too.

rowyn
I was on holiday in Egypt with the man who developed the Theraband.
These pictures will give you an idea of it’s use.
They are good.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=theraband+exercises&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

Blossoming

Calistemon

I was wondering how to save this so have clicked on 'Watch this Thread'

You should see a ‘Bookmark’ button in the bottom right corner of my OP.

Thank you again Blossoming

The Bookmark wasn't viible until I tapped on the post.

Looks much more useful than the exercises given to me by a physiotherapist, who interrogated me on the phone for nearly an hour then said he would post me some exercises to do, and phone me again in a month's time.
This was 6 months after the doc referred me, incidentally.

He also gave me a link to pictures of the exercises online, at which point I saw I was supposed to use a 'Theraband', which he hadn't mentioned. Waited for the post, assuming the band would be included, and to cut a long story short, - no post, and repeated attempts by email and phone to get said exercises and band all failed. I even offered to go and collect the band myself.
However he did phone me a month later, and informed me that he was leaving the job that same day! ( did he go or was he pushed??)

I finally got the band by going to the Physiotherapy department; ironically I cannot figure out how to use it, even with the help of pictures.

Maybe I'll forget them and just try out the exercises here. Thanks, Blossoming.

Joe Wicks for me as well

It's no good waiting until you're old and unfit to get some exercise!

Looks great! I've saved the link and Polnan's Tai Chi link!

The Joe Wicks for seniors is very inspiring!

My DM did her exercises daily until about 6 months before she passed away at just over 100! I have just stared Yoga and it has crippled me, my back and my shoulder, not going this week, see how I am next week.