Healthy at Home for Older Adults

For Older Adults 

There are videos for falls prevention, including staying strong and staying strong plus, as well as some chair basked workouts called staying mobile. These vidoes are aimed at people aged over 65.

Each video is made available in shorter 5-15 minute clips working on a particular component of fitness. Complete all of the sections for a full 40-60 minute workout, or just complete individual sections when it suits you. Check them out below and give them a go.

Staying strong live with Danny 

Staying strong live 1 - June 12th (30 minutes)

Staying strong live 2 - June 19th (40 minutes)

Staying strong live 3 - June 26th (40 minutes)

Staying strong live 4 - July 3rd (40 minutes)

Staying strong live 5 - July 10th (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 6 - July 17th (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 7 - July 24th (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 8 - July 31st (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 9 - August 7th (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 10 - August 14th (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 11 - August 21st (50 minutes)

Staying strong live 12 - August 28th (35 minutes)

Staying strong live 13 - September 4th (45 minutes)

Staying strong live 14 - September 11th (52 minutes)

Staying strong live 15- September 25th (49 minutes)

Staying strong live 16- October 2nd (18 minutes)

Staying stong live 16- Part 2- October 2nd (29 minutes)

Staying stong live 17- October 9th (45 minutes)

Staying strong

A workout suitable for beginners. Pre-recorded and available on our YouTube channel.

Workout 1 - full workout playlist (35 minutes)

Workout 2 - full workout playlist (35 minutes)

Workout 3 - full workout playlist (45 minutes)

Workout 4 - full workout playlist (50 minutes)

Workout 5 - full workout playlist (45 minutes)

Workout 6 - full workout video (40 minutes)

Workout 7 - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 8 - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Staying strong + 

A more advanced workout for you. Pre-recorded and available on our YouTube channel.

Workout 1 - full workout playlist (30 minutes)

Workout 2 - full workout playlist (35 minutes)

Workout 3 - full workout playlist (30 minutes)

Workout 4 - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 5 - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 6 - full workout playlist (30 minutes)

Staying mobile

A chair based mobility and stretching workout. Pre-recorded and available on our YouTube channel.

Workout 1- full workout playlist (15 minutes)

Workout 2 - full workout playlist (30 minutes)

Workout 3 - full workout playlist (45 minutes)

Workout 4: cushion workout - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 5: tin can workout - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 6 - full workout playlist (45 minutes)

Workout 7: standing workout - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 8: pyjama workout - full workout playlist (35 minutes)

Workout 9: standing mobility - full workout playlist (40 minutes)

Workout 10: resistance bands revisited - full video (45 minutes)

Workout 11: go with the flow - full video (40 minutes)

Workout 12: dumbbell workout - full video (45 minutes)

Workout 13: monday monte workout - full video (45 minutes)

Workout 14: monday movement - full video (45 minutes)

Workout 15: lower body workout - full video (40 minutes)

Workout 16: upper body - full video (40 minutes)

Workout 17: wet and windy workout (45 minutes)

Workout 18: keeping warm workout (27 minutes)

Workout 19: full body strength workout (28 minutes)

Workout 20: October workout (39 minutes)

More ideas and information for older people

Movement can be one of the best ways for people with arthritis to feel good and live a healthier life. It can boost your mental health, help you sleep better and reduce pain. Click here to find information and exercises designed to strengthen, stabilise and manage the joint pain from Versus Arthritis. 

Public Health England and Move More Sheffield have developed an active at home booklet to help older people and those shielded during coronavirus to be active and healthy at home: PHE - Active at Home (older people/shielded) (PDF Document, 3.49 Mb)

Later life training have created a 'keeping active calendar' to help you make keeping physically active part of everyday life.

SAGA also created a guide on staying steady which provides advice, tips and exercises to reduce your falls risk.

Also visit the NHS exercise page where you can find a range of workouts that may suit you in their easy exercises section or strength & flex section.

Better Care Toegther have also produced an information booklet on preventing falls. You can download it here: Better Care Together - preventing falls (PDF Document, 0.7 Mb), as well as an information flyer about support for staying stable, being able: Better care together - staying stable, being able flyer (PDF Document, 0.27 Mb)

Also here are some simple workout booklets that you can try. You can see and download them here; 

Later Life Training - chair based exercise (PDF Document, 1.12 Mb)

Otago - strength and balance, home exercise programme beginners (PDF Document, 0.54 Mb)

Better Care Together - preventing falls (PDF Document, 0.64 Mb) (Better care together - Preventing falls (Easy read version) (PDF Document, 2.63 Mb)

Videos & recordings:

Safe and active in later life: falls prevention roadshows- the free virtual roadshows are designed to give people an introduction to strength and balance exercise and how they can make their homes safe. More details can be found on the website.

Over lock down Later life training created a Facebook group called Make movement your mission. They posted a range of exercise videos aimed at older people between July and August and these can all be found on their YouTube channel here.

You can also find these Later Life workouts after here on YouTube.

Produced by the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) falls prevention group and uploaded by Leicestershire County Council, here is a 10 minute video on YouTube about preventing falls - exercises to reduce your falls risk

The British Heart Foundation have also created a range of workouts to try whilst you are at home including strength exercises using everyday objects, chair based exercises and 10-minute living room workout. Take a look at all of their workouts here.

Paths for All have also designed some short workouts and exercises for reducing falls risk and factures. Visit their YouTube channel here to find seated exercises, full workouts with strength and balance exercises and individual exercises like heel raises.  

Our partners in Charnwood and Harborough have also made some videos to share with us:

Charnwood Borough Council - Seated arm workout with Sam, Gentle standing activity with Sam

Harborough District Council - Strength & balance exercises for older adults