“I meet too many people who retire and they are sitting around waiting to expire,” he says.<\/p>\n
“You don’t know how much time you have been given, so therefore you need to try and ensure you are less dependent on other people.”<\/p>\n
His message is that wellbeing is important to everyone, “it’s just not enough of us embrace it”.<\/p>\n
“The lines in the NHS could be half the size if everybody tomorrow took control of their own wellbeing – and that starts with wellbeing.<\/p>\n
“Movement is medicine. Put a bit of laughter into it and it’s even better medicine.”<\/p>\n
According to the NHS, adults aged 65 and over should aim to be physically active every day and complete “at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week”.<\/p>\n
Despite this, research from Sport England has found that 42% of people aged 55 and over are inactive, compared to 29% of the adult population.<\/p>\n
The afternoon’s special visit has been organised by Bailey Greetham, who runs a business delivering fitness and wellbeing classes across the care sector.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, who was raised by his grandparents, says the idea to set up the business six years ago “sprung from a need for our older generation to move”.<\/p>\n
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