April 4, 2020 © by Judith Allen Shone
Congratulations!
You have chosen to work toward good health!
You know we all need to be flexible and mobile for life ahead!
With the help of caregiver exercise videos below, we can create and continue a healthy habit to help sustain us throughout our journey!🥰
Please, DO NOT EXERCISE if you feel pain.
IMPORTANT: Be sure your loved one is in a safe place while you exercise..
Below find a choice of exercise programs. Find a chair with hard seat, folding chair, kitchen chair. Find a way to view the video while seated…if you can access on a large monitor, it might be easier to follow. BUT that is not necessary. Any size screen will work. Turn the sound up.
Work at your pace! DO NOT PUSH TO PAIN! Try them all. Videos are +/- 30 minutes.
Have water close by and drink when you feel you need it. Our bodies need lots of water!
Find an exercise group or start one…If others want to find such a group, call a friend, or contact me on this site and maybe I can help you find one. But, please, please, keep looking for an exercise group, or use the videos on this page and start your own!
SEE THESE EXERCISE VIDEOS BELOW…
(A)
1-Gentle Tai Chi and Qi Gong fromToronto Rehab’s LEAP Service, (Living Engaged and Actively with Pain)
2-Gentle Chair Yoga routine
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(B)
Acclaim Health-Ontario
Chair Yoga with Nina – Experienced with those in Senior Day Programs
(C)
Exercises for Seniors with Music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s
from Improved Health with Jules
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(D)
‘Priority One’ Chair Based Exercises, Two videos from YouTube, are led by Alexis Mason – Two Basic Chair Exercise videos from Priority One – Beginning and Coordination
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(E) 
Sit to be fit from YouTube
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(F) Exercises you can do at the kitchen sink
(G) Mindful Movement with Derek- 8 Minutes to Start your Day 2023 12 01 Pump It Up with Derek Humble
(E)
Sit to be fit
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Remember, each person’s abilities and tolerance level are different.
IMPORTANT: Be sure your loved one is in a safe place while you exercise.
1.Talk to your therapist or physician before working with these videos.
2. Go at your own pace. STOP if you feel pain or feel you should rest. Enjoy!❤
3. Decide how often to do these exercises each week.
4. Option: connect the video through laptop-to-TV HDMI cable, making it easier to follow on a larger screen. 📺
Do you walk and exercise? Consider if you’d benefit by alternating days?
(A) Toronto Rehab’s Brain and Spinal Cord LEAP Service.
Gentle Tai Chi and Qi Gong and Gentle Chair Yoga
LEAP Service (Living Engaged and Actively with Pain) will help you stay active!
Currently being encouraged for use by the LHIN Funded Toronto Lifemark Seniors Wellness Program, especially for those in their Exercise and Falls Prevention Program.
Find needed card table chair without arms, with a firm seat. 🪑
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(B) 
Experienced with those in Senior Day Programs
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(C) Exercises for Seniors with Music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s with Jules from Improved Health
1. Ten minutes warmup and easy cardio
2. Part of a series for seniors.
3, Music and no talking…you listen, watch to follow and have fun.
Find more videos from Improved Health on YouTube.
(D) 
are led by Alexis Mason –
1.Get your soup cans. 
(each approximately 1-pound weight)
2. Line up your chosen video. 🎞
3. Option: connect the video through laptop-to-TV HDMI cable, making it easier to follow on a larger screen. 📺
4. Find needed card table chair without arms, with a firm seat. 🪑
5. Have water to drink when you feel thirsty. 
6. Check off the date as ‘participated’ on your Exercise Success Record 🗓
7. Go get coffee afterwards! ☕
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If you require more intense exercises, follow these videos to YouTube and find
Alexis Mason-PRIORITY ONE videos there.
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SENIORS, improve your balance, your strength and your flexibility with exercises you can do.
(F) Exercising at the Kitchen Sink. Easy, but if you are consistent they work!!! During the first years of participation with the Alzheimer Society, we were given an exercise booklet, similar to these next videos,
These videos include seven activities from the Strategies and Actions for Independent Living (SAIL) Program developed by the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit and brought to you by the Chatham-Kent Falls Prevention Coalition.
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(G) Mindful Movement with Derek – Followed by many in the Lifemark Community Outreach Program Ontario Health/VON as Weekly exercises The first 8 minutes will ‘get you ready’ and 59 minutes in all...start and stop as you feel is right for you!! If you wish to watch in YouTube, right click for new tab. on YouTube logo at bottom right corner of video.
Try the first 8 eight minutes of this low impact seniors exercise class. Its just the Warm Up section but it will get your muscles and joints ready for your day. The option of course is to continue with the rest of the class to get your full 60 minutes of a nicely rounded out exercise class for your body, mind and soul. You got this! This seniors exercise class starts with standing for 80% of the class, 20% for seated strength and some stretches. It is geared for all levels – options are offered. Class is approximately 55 minutes and is focused on improving your balance, posture, flexibility, muscle strength, and endurance! In addition, breath work and posture are emphasized
Encourage your success!
Create a chart or copy/paste/print this image.
Check off the days you come to exercise.
Be happy! You took time for you today. 😊
Chose to come back another morning this week
See you soon!!
If you want to dance, go to the Family Lockdown Boogie!
~judy
Each day do something to make others smile and your heart sing!
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Caregiver Exercise Copyright © 2023 by Judith Allen Shone
AUTHOR APPRECIATES:
ACCLAIM HEALTH – Ontario Canada Community Health and Home Care Provider
Our full spectrum of programs support physical and mental well-being through independent living, reduced social isolation, innovative dementia care, end of life care and bereavement support.
Oakville, Ontario, Canada 905-827-8800 or 1-800-387-7127
Minds in Motion Classes from the Alzheimer Society in Halton provides one hour of exercise and one hour of social activity together. Call them to learn more and get on the list for the next class.
In Ontario, phone the Alzheimer Society:
Halton 289-837-2310
Hamilton 905-529-7030
Visit: Alzheimer Society Brant, Haldimand Norfolk, Hamilton Halton website
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Thank you for your note. An Alzheimer group is a great place to find others going through similar experiences, to make new friends to share caregiving information. Many groups offer exercises appropriately focused on the capabilities of those attending. It is wonderful that you go and take your loved one. We do not realize how quickly our muscles get weaker when we neglect exercise…both caregivers and loved ones!
If others want to find such a group, call a friend, or contact me on this site. But, please, please, keep looking for an exercise group, or use the videos on this page and start your own!
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As a caregiver, I go with my mother to our Alzheimer’s exercise group where they have someone lead chair exercises. The leader is very tuned In to the abilities of those in the group, but keep the action moving…for about 45 minutes or so…we do what we can. We especially like the refreshments and social activities that they provide for an hour afterwards where we can get to know the others in the group as we play games together that the facilitators lead.
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