DVD promotes exercise for elderly in care

OLDER people who have limited mobility are being encouraged and shown how to exercise even from a chair through a new DVD.

Filmed at St Patrick’s Hospital in Waterford, the DVD shows safe and effective ways to deliver chair-based activity sessions for residents in long-stay facilities for older adults.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) — in co-operation with the Activity in Care Training (ACT) team in the Department of Health, Sport and Exercise Science at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) — have produced the innovative DVD.