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WHY IS GARDENING GOOD FOR SENIORS? By Rosemary Eiden Physically – gardening is an excellent low impact exercise that improves flexibility through stretching and bending. It promotes strengthening and endurance as well. Mentally – the fresh air and sunshine that you get from just being outdoors is very helpful to reducing stress and anxiety. But in addition to just being outside, gardening provides a project that provides purpose which plays a significant role in improving one’s level of happiness and life satisfaction. Gardening can help to improve not only physical but mental functioning as well – In a wonderful article in Psychology Today, author Sarah Rayner lists 10 benefits gardening provides for mental health: 1. Looking after plants gives us a sense of responsibility. 2. Gardening allows us to be nurturers. 3. Gardening keeps us connected to other living things.
4. Gardening helps us relax and let go. 5. Working in nature releases happy hormones. 6. Being amongst plants and flowers reminds us to live in the present moment. 7. Gardening reminds us of the cycle of life, and thus come to terms with that most universal of anxieties: death. 8. Some aspects of gardening allow us to vent anger and aggression… 9. …whilst others allow us to feel in control. 10. Last but not least, gardening is easy. Is gardening good exercise? Of course, gardening can be wonderful exercise but the amount of exercise anyone would get depends on how much they are able to do to begin with. But what gardening does mostly for seniors is that it… • Gets them moving!
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• It’s functional exercise in that a task is being performed (you’re not just running on a treadmill here!) • It improves balance, sensory perception and flexibility. • The extra physical movements promote the release of endorphins and helps to strengthen muscles (including the heart).
Even if your are in a wheelchair, gardening can be performed with container gardens, raised beds and even indoors. Even from a wheelchair or seated position, the amount of exercise you are getting is much more than sitting in front of the television set. I would recommend to do your gardening in the early morning or at dusk when the sun is not as harsh.
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