Celebrating International Older Person’s Day

Charter Housing, part of the Seren Group, celebrated International Older Persons Day with a new fitness and wellbeing initiative for its senior tenants. Tenants living in Charter’s sheltered housing schemes across Newport were presented with a Nintendo Wii to encourage them to keep fit and active.

Tenants take part in “Extend” sessions once a week, which involves armchair exercises and stretches. The Wii will now offer those that are able, a little something extra they can do at their own pace. With a variety of games, Charter believes initiatives like this are important to the health of older people and will help improve their overall fitness. Social interaction also plays an important part in their general wellbeing and the bowling game has been particularly popular! The Wii will also allow tenants to keep active during the winter months when they are not able to go out as much.

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