\n At Glebe House Residential Care Home in Hollesley, weekly seated exercise classes are helping older adults improve their health, mobility, and wellbeing through gentle, music-led movement.\n<\/p>\n
\n The sessions offer a lively and social way to stay active, with routines tailored for comfort and safety.\n<\/p>\n
\n Care home residents have shared their enjoyment of the classes.\n<\/p>\n
\n Robert Digby, an 80-year-old resident, said: “I like to think I look pretty cool with my headband on.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The regular exercise makes me feel great and it\u2019s such fun that it always leaves me feeling happy and energised.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The classes, already a favourite among residents, focus on gentle stretches and movements that can be done from a seated position.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mary Orton, 90, enjoys the musical aspect in particular.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “I always look forward to taking part.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I love the music and getting my body moving definitely makes me feel stronger.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The classes are designed to maintain strength and mobility.\n<\/p>\n
\n Glebe House, a 20-bed care home on Rectory Road, provides residential, respite, and specialist dementia care.\n<\/p>\n
\n Staff aim to help residents remain as independent and active as possible, offering a varied activity programme tailored to individual needs.\n<\/p>\n
\n Rachael Hood, manager at Glebe House, said: “Staying active is so important as we get older, helping to maintain strength, mobility and independence, but we also want exercise to be something our residents really enjoy.\n<\/p>\n
\n Staff said they noticed a positive impact since starting the classes.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The music makes such a difference.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It creates a really upbeat atmosphere, and you see residents smiling, singing along and encouraging one another as they exercise.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We\u2019ve already seen the positive impact the sessions are having, not just physically but on residents\u2019 mood and overall wellbeing too.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Hood said the exercises are flexible and can be adapted to suit a wide range of abilities.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “It\u2019s wonderful to see how much our residents look forward to the sessions each week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Glebe House Residential Care Home in Hollesley, weekly seated exercise classes are helping older adults improve their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}