Tai Chi programme with Action for Elders at Prior Bank Care Home, Sheffield

In late 2016, David, at Mindful Tai Chi Sheffield, teamed up with community trust charity, Action for Elders to bring a twelve-week Tai Chi programme to the customers at Prior Bank Care Home in Nether Edge, Sheffield. The programme was introduced to help improve balance, mobility and overall physical and emotional health, as well as to encourage a better quality of life for the elderly people residing there.

Evaluations after the initial twelve-week programme indicated clear benefits for participants, including a general sense of well-being and more positive attitude, better balance, greater independence by being able to stand and sit on their own, and having more flexibility. Feedback from the Big Lottery grant funders was also very positive and so Mindful Tai Chi was commissioned to do a further two twelve week programmes, the third of which starts in June 2017.

Joanne Smith, the Activities Co-ordinator at Prior Bank mentioned;

“David’s programmes have been absolutely tremendous. The residents look forward to participating in his Tai Chi classes every Tuesday. David is respectful, patient and professional, his classes have helped them with their physical mobility and given them a healthier mind set. We look forward to having more of his Tai Chi at our centre in the future.”

David enjoys working with for Action for Elders at Prior Bank and very much supports the aims and ethos of the organisation which he sees as making a significant and much needed positive intervention in the older peoples’ lives.

John Coleman, Media Executive at Action for Elders Trust, said;

“After just three sessions it was clear that all participants were engaged and felt the sessions very worthwhile.”

For further information on Mindful Tai Chi, Action for Elders Trust and Prior Bank Residential Home please follow the links below.

Mindful Tai Chi Sheffield:

http://www.mindful-taichi.co.uk/index.html

Action for Elders Trust:

https://www.actionforelders.org.uk

Prior Bank Care Home, Sheffield:

http://www.anchor.org.uk/our-properties/prior-bank-sheffield