Senior Club Litoměřice

For active lifestyle, you need to be healthy, and for maintaining health, regular exercise is necessary. The Municipality of Litoměřice knows that for sure. They organize regular events like: Reconditioning exercise under guidance of professional trainer (every Monday and Thursday, from 8 to 9am). They also prepare singing lessons every Thursday from 2pm, and borrow some books to people. On Monday 20th of January, there was also a trip called „Travelling in Cyprus“ and on 27th of January Memory training event.

As you can see, there are plenty of events for our ACTIVE seniors in Litoměřice. It only remains to go to one of them.

Link to Litoměřice websites (in Czech):

http://radnice.litomerice.cz/dokument-1120888.html

Sedukon o.p.s.

SEDUKON o. p. s. was established in Ostrava as a non-profit company in 2001. Company SEDUKON is reserve as a non-profit organization, while the scope of the organization in Ostrava extended to Prague. Our activities are focused primarily on:

·         Education and vocational courses with emphasis on the development of innovative educational methods.

·         Education and personal development of differentiated groups of disadvantaged people with regard to the needs of their integration into the socio-economic environment of the Czech Republic.

·         Initiation, implementation and collaboration in projects co-financed by the European Union, both at national and international level.

·         Organizing courses, workshops and providing employment advice.

·         Cross-border cooperation and networking.

The company is one of the major regional non-profit organization focusing primarily on education and follow-up activities. SEDUKON, through cooperation with foreign partners and implementation of international experience, contributing substantially to better and more successful form of education in the Czech Republic.

Projects aimed at seniors:

Competencies for Seniors in Action

The project aim is to create strong partnership ready to efficient an offer of the solution for qualification and competences by expansion of the capacity a work structure of older people, to create considerable activities in their communities at European level.

Project partners:	XIBO Center (Romania)
	SEDUKON, o. p. s. (Czech republic)
	LEAM Développement et Gestion de Projets (France)
	Hungarian Telecottage Association (Hungary)
	AGORA – Associazione Culturale (Italy)
	Joniškio rajono švietimo centras (Lithuania)
	Krośnieński Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku (Poland)
	Akdeniz Üniversitesi Elmali Meslek Yüksek Okulu (Turkey)
	Arber Enterprises Ltd. (Great Britain)

Project description:

Ageing has a significant impact to the social perception of human, despite of this older people are still placed in a disadvantaged positions. In their effort to keep a balance for the situation, the NGOs which assumed missions on this matter have to face the lack of funds and the isolation from other contacts that could nurture their need of learning and exchange experiences

The project aims creates a strong partnership to offer solutions to building up capacities of the organization structure and achieving a higher activity and efficiency of elderly person in their communities at the European level.

The target group members are employees of non-governmental organizations working with elderly people. Target group contains of NGOs or other structures working with older people.

Activities/Outcomes:

·         Training PC courses, fundraising, writing and implementing project (introduction of the Grundtvig Programme) and foreign language courses.

·         Stimulate the cooperation between the target organizations: participation in the international meetings and workshops organized within the project – opportunities to establish contacts, discover cultural values, define common domain of interest, identifying a team building and sharing experiences.

·         The main project result shows the draft of a new international project created by the target groups, underlying the force of involvement of older people in community-level actions and wider.

Program 50+

Sedukon company project. in order to increase the employability of people over 50 years.

Project description:

The project is focused  at increasing employment and employability of persons older than 50 years in the Moravian Region.

Goal of the project is an individual approach to provide advice and support to 28 selected participants of the project - 16 candidates and 12 interested for jobs over 50 years.

The project will contribute to addressing the specific situations and problems of project participants in the labor market through:

-       -      Providing individual support and motivation of the target group (work, balance diagnostics, consultations, individual job counseling)

-       -      Raising the skills of the target group through the courses:

1)     Master in production

2)     Welding course

3)     The driver of the lorry

4)     Salesman

5)     Worker in banking

-       -      Support the creation of new jobs

ACTIVE SENIOR 2012 PROJECT 

is already past half-way.

Our Finnish group has been quite active both locally (learning the subjects included in the project programme) and internationally in taking part in the project meetings in Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Greece.  The project, and especially the meetings in other countries have been very interesting for our members.  We have learned a lot about the culture of other partner countries and have enjoyed the
trips and the hospitality of the host organisations very much.  The travels have also inspired us to find out new ways of activity within our group here in Finland.

Reflexology for Mirja in Athens

Finnish group at the European Fair

Miikka, Eero and Tauno on the Acropolis

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We are almost 40 active seniors.  We have a general meeting once a month.. Additionally we arrange different events.  In November we made a tour to Tampere, about 200 km from Kouvola.  We saw a theater performance-  The name of the play was "My heart hurts".  It was a partly humorous story about ageing and the problems with the cervices in health care.  Afterwards we had a lunch and visited an exhibition on Chinese Terra Cotta soldiers from the time of the first Chinese Emperor in 220' s B.C.
Before Christmas there was a Christmas party at a Club House in a museum area in Verla village.
Our group entertained the inhabitants of a sheltered home.  There were Christmas Carols and plays.
At our December meeting rice porridge, Christmas pastries  and coffee were served.   In addition to other points Christmas music was on the agenda.   Meeri and Eira presented  the idea of reflexology, and how it helps.  Other things that we learned in Athens were dealt with at our previous meeting in November.

Lesson on Reflexology 

Rice porridge is a typical food at Christmas

 The Finnish group in the Project meeting in Sines, Portugal

Enchanted  by Vasco da Gama 

Toes in the warm water of the Atlantic

Portuguese Tapestry

 Finnish national costumes

 

 

In sauna we slap ourselves with birch twigs

to help the blood circulation

Finnish group in the European Fair

  

The Prosas choir entertaining the guests

 

In Porto-Covo

Benefits of working out for seniors

In today´s hectic time full of stress and everyday responsibilities, only a few people take time to work out, especially among seniors. Although they often have more free time, many of them simply do not go work out. Whether it is because of feelings like „that’s just not for me anymore…“ and „I´m too old for this…“, or because their doctor simply stops them from working out. It´s a pity, because working out with assistance of qualified trainer can have many benefits for both mental and physical health, we will show some of them:

• Cardiovascular. Improves indicator of physical fitness (tidal volume, cardiac output), regulates blood pressure, reduces the risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure, modifies the representation of fats in the blood serum.
• Diabetes mellitus type 2 (diabetes). It improves the possibility to control blood sugar and response to insulin.
• Osteoporosis. Reduces bone loss, especially for women after menopause. Reduces the risk of falls and fractures.
• Arthritis (inflammation of joints). Improves mobility and overall joint function and reduces their pain.
• Difficulties with urination. In the case of functional difficulties (and the majority of them) in 100% of cases, blurring problems with leakage.
• Establishment of cancer. Proven to reduce the risk of cancer of the colon, breast, prostate, and rectum. Reduces fatigue.
• Obesity. Exercise increases metabolism and thus burns more calories. In the long term helps to maintain optimal weight.
• Neuro-psychological health. Improves quality of sleep. It improves learning ability, especially short-term memory. Anti-depressant. Expand the possibilities of social contacts.
• Other. Relieves symptoms of difficulties in the development of vascular occlusions. Reduces mortality and morbidity.

We all grow old, against age there is no cure. But how fast we grow old, that depends on us. And also “it is easily done in pair”. So take your friend, or girlfriend and go together to your nearest gym or at least take a walk in the forest.

For more tips for working out, you can check out these links:

http://www.helpguide.org/life/senior_fitness_sports.htm

(in English)

http://www.ftk.upol.cz/_katedry/apa/esf_3_2/download/Uhlir_Pohybovacvicenisenioru.pdf

(in Czech)

Eslováquia

  

Dobré roky 50plus/Good years 50plus/ - Slovakia. Our organization has been established in 2007.We are non governmental, nonprofit organization and our members operate on the basis of volunteering. Many of our members are still economically active but we have also many members in retiremet age

Our priority is mainly to organize free time activities and partially vocational training for adults, with an emphasis on strengthening (reinforcement) of independence and self-confidence of "seniors" in everyday life. We focus on developing life skills, in the sphere of physical as well as mental condition in the form of workshops, training courses, short courses, competitions, but also excursions or trips.

Within the framework program LLLP our organization has  already in the past established friendly relations and cooperating with partners from the EU

Meeting in Athens

Our little Slovak group has participated in the project meeting of the Grundtvig Partnership project named Active Body + Active Mind = Healthy Senior organized by 50+Hellas in Athens, Greece  on the 21., 22., and 23th. of October 2013.

And our friends from Czech Republic, Finland, Portugal and Turkey were also there.

The host group, chaired by Mrs. Giorgia Michalopoulou prepared very challenging but extremely interesting program. 

The main topics of the meeting were Reflexology + Memory + Nutrition.

Reflexology was associated with a showing foot massage and highlighting the importance of individual zones. Excellent presentation of Reflexology as supplementary and holistic therapy in country of Hippocrates and Aesclepios as tender healer was important not only for physical body, but also emotional. This therapy should be as a medicine. In Greece make it voluntaries, they supported children and adults.

In Memory have its center of gravity in memory skills training meeting participants who have acquired some of the terms in the languages of its foreign partners, for example. greetings, thanks, numbers, names of individual days of the week and the like. It was extremely difficult, because these languages met for the first time.

 The art of memory was developed by ancient Greeks, e.g. mnemotechnics. Memory is the most significant aspect  of both -  intellectual and spiritual activity.

Active body cooperated with brain and support memory. But it takes longer to learn and recall information in later age. We also focused on ways in which you can keep and practice memory skills into old age.
In the section on nutrition, we learned a lot about Human digestive system - ingestion and mechanical and chemical digestion, on suitable and unsuitable food for the elderly, etc...

All together we visited K.A.PI. (Senior House in Municipality of Elioupolis. Tam held Greek evening with folklore dance, singing and traditional Greek food cooked by the ladies of project´s team and meeting with Vice Mayor of this municipality.

The last day was devoted to visiting Epidaurus in the Peloponnese, where we saw

presentation of an ancient chorus by the Study group of ancient orchestra of The National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. 
In addition, we also visited the healing place of god Asclepius and Thermal Spa in Loutraki and we had the opportunity to use the thermal pools.

From project and even entire stay, we not only took away a lot of knowledge, but also many beautiful experiences and new friendships.

Now, our Slovak organization is a difficult challenged - to organize in April 2014 just as interesting, useful and even enjoyable meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Marcela

Turkish partner

Our  association is a non-governmental, non-profit,  local NGO working in the fields of culture, arts and history, lifelong learning, active citizenship, educational and vocational activities, social and cultural activities. The members of the association are young people, adults, professionals, students, graduates. The target groups of the activities are children, young people and adults from different backgrounds preferably disadvantaged ones, migrants and refugees and people with fewer opportunities. A special group of our concern is the 50+ citizens. Our association organizes different courses like language courses, folk dance courses, sports activities, mathematics, physics, chess, musical instruments ( baglama, guitar etc.) for people with less opportunities, migrants and refugees.
Gaziantep is a big city and it is also cosmopolitan because there are a lot of people from eastern part of Turkey who come and live there to find jobs because Gaziantep is an industrial and commercial city.
The association has been trying to provide equal opportunities for people especially form rural or disadvantaged areas, lets the people actively involve in decision-making in the society, contribute to the social and professional development of the people, offer solutions for social problems and become a part of the society, cooperate with different actors in the society such as governmental, non-governmental organizations, etc. to disseminate the activities and outcomes or results.
The association has arranged and has been involved in local projects. Some members of the association have had some experience in international projects and activities. The organization is interested in participation in this project because there is a lot of cultural heritage in Gaziantep and it is also becoming popular because of its potentials in culture, history, handicrafts, traditions, etc. However, most of the people are not aware of the social and cultural values and they do not know much about how to introduce and maintain the cultural heritage and traditions. The project will let them to be aware of those cultural heritage and social values.