Good practices

Name:
Sports and recreation batch “Health and sports”

When:
12-21. 09. 2016

Where:
Drzonków (Zielona Góra), Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

Who:
Zbigniew Majewski’s Voivodeship Sports and Recreation Center in Drzonkowo, Lubusz Sports Federation, Zielona Góra University of the Third Age

Reach:
75 elderly people, including the disabled – participants of the batch

Description:
Between the days 12-21 of September 2016 a Sports and Recreation Batch “Health and sports” for seniors and people with disabilities was hold in the Sports and Recreation Center in Drzonków.
The Batch was addressed to the elderly people, including disabled ones. In all 75 people participated in the event. In the Batch program seniors had a variety of sport and recreation activities. For example they had activities like: general development, fitness in the water and in the hall, dancing, nordic walking, boccia, shooting, tennis, table tennis.
The event was also full of other attractions. There were plenty of dietary meetings and training workshops on various subjects: “Couch lifestyle”, “First aid classes”, “Diet of eternal youth”, “Improve your interior”, “Sad senior”.
Main goals and tasks of Sports and Recreation Batch:

• raising the level of general psychophysical activity and efficiency,

• promotion of active leisure activities through physical exercises, tourism activities and sport competition,

• increasing the knowledge of seniors and people with disabilities on proper nutrition and diets in selected metabolic diseases,

• shaping awareness of the impact of nutrition on a quality of life,

• increasing the knowledge of seniors and people with disabilities on physical activity,

• promoting a healthy lifestyle,

• raising awareness about early identification of depressive disorders,

• increasing the number of people who will be able to prevent the symptoms of depression,

• ability to fight helplessness against one's own problems,

• increasing the safety of seniors and people with disabilities by eliminating health or life-threatening factors,

• the ability to build hope, strength and self-esteem,

• increase first aid knowledge and skills,

• shaping the ability to work in extreme situations and interpersonal skills in a group,

• integration of seniors and people with disabilities through participation in group activities.

Highlighted as good practice:
Creating events for elder people is a challenge and at the same time it is much needed in the modern society. Elder people are suffering of lack of proper events for their age with the focus on their own abilities to be active. This example can be multiplied in every community.

Occupazione:

Località: Città, Piccolo Paese

Età: Adulto