Better health for elders

Encorage your parents ro exercise and at the same time help your parents to exercise to ensure they have better health. Your parents not only feel cared for and motivated to excercise with your accompany but they would be more happy to exercise. In addition, this is the best way to reinforce the bonding within you and your parents.

Exercise that should be included in for elderly.

1. Aerobic activity - to improve the oxygen flow to the brain and whole body. Ie. walking, swimming and bicycling
2. flexibility training - to increase nimbleness and flexibility. Ie. use stress ball to squeez and release
3. strength training - to improve and maintaing muscle strength. Ie. dumbell 1kg
4. balance training - to prevent fall. Ie. balancing by standing on one leg, ballance board or exercise ball

The Regular exercise above will also improve balance in elder people who have arthitis of the knee. Generally it will bring the benefits as follows : -

• higher oxygen uptake, becoming less breathless
• improve heart muscle funtions
• good collestrol level
• increase bone density, reduce osteoporosis risk
• increase flexibility
• lower risk of falling
• greater stregth
• faster respond
• better sleep
• increase mental energy
• better health for elders

The best nutrition for the best health for elders will be listed next... Check it out later!