Functional Fitness for Seniors
Ryan Malone, of Leaders In Elder Care, wrote a great article about functional fitness. And we're not talking exercises for the sake of fitness, but exercises that are geared toward helping seniors with everyday issues like arthritis pain, brain power and diabetes, to name just a few. Of course, functional fitness has some great health benefits too, but unless exercises are geared directly toward seniors, there can be significant risks involved.
Malone also included a helpful podcast by Suzanne Andrews, an occupational therapy practitioner and host of PBS TV's Functional Fitness. Andrews specializes in increasing peoples functional ability through medically engineered fitness techniques for the over 40 population. Be sure to check out the rest of this great article here.