Invention Puts Seniors Back On Bikes
A program at UNC Greensboro is giving students hands-on and bike-on experience, and seniors too.
Twice a week, students in the Health and Human Performance program visit residents at the WhiteStone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. They team up with the home’s activity department to implement a Duet biking program.
Students and activity leaders ride a bicycle with the resident’s wheelchair attached to the front of it.
The program treats depression and isolation, by getting seniors outside and active. The oldest resident at the home, who’s 103-years-old, was one of the first to ride.
This program uses a specialized piece of therapy equipment called the Duet wheelchair bike to deliver evidence based interventions in the nursing home setting.
Photo by WFMY News.
Debo Hobo on April 22nd, 2008 9:52 am
That is so wonderful, so often the seniors get stuck inside of door all day, this will give them a chance to get out and feal the wind blowing in their hair-if they still have any…
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