Healthy Living for ME Workshops
Enhance®Fitness
About the workshop
Enhance®Fitness is an arthritis friendly program that helps older adults at all levels of fitness become more active, energized and empowered to sustain independent lives. This workshop focuses on dynamic cardiovascular exercise, strength training, balance, and flexibility - everything adults need to maintain health and function as they age.
"From day one, I have been well taken care of. Our leaders are wonderful. If I'm having a problem with an exercise, they immediately help with modifying it."
- Enhance®Fitness Participant
Benefits of the workshop
- Maintains or improves physical function
- Protects against falls and fall injury
- Decreases depression
- Provides a social benefit
- Promotes a physically active lifestyle
- Reduces medical-care utilization costs - $945/participant annually
- Saves healthcare costs for managed care plans
- Decreases skilled nursing costs
- Decreases unplanned hospitalizations
More information about this program’s research and evaluation can be found here.
Who should take the workshop
Adult of all ages and abilities
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