Older Adults
Swimming Program for Older Adults
Designed exclusively for senior members of our community, our Grey Medallion program can help you lead a healthy, independent and active lifestyle. You’ll learn all the essential skills you need to safely enjoy your aquatic and recreation activities.
You’ll gain knowledge in personal survival techniques and benefit from improved swimming skills. Also, gain an understanding of how to deal with emergency situations, and obtain critical water safety practices to give you peace of mind and confidence when enjoying the water. Main components include:
- Water safety knowledge
- Resuscitation and emergency care
- Aquatic exercise
- Personal survival and lifesaving skills
Classes will run for 30 minutes contact our friendly team or visit us at reception.
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Resuscitation and Emergency Care
Knowing what to do in an emergency situation will more likely result in a positive outcome. The first person on the scene of an emergency is most often a family member so you could one day find yourself needing to provide resuscitation or emergency care. Ask yourself, would you know what to do?
This module aims to teach the following:
- Recognising an emergency
- Understanding resuscitation and when it’s required
- DRSABCD action plan
- Aftercare
Aquatic Exercise
Aquatic exercise is ideal for older adults because of its low impact nature making it suitable for both active people and those with restricted mobility.
Regular physical activity can reduce the risk of heart attack, improve blood cholesterol, lower blood pressure and even help to prevent falls and injury. Sessions will aim to further develop your swimming skills in a fun and non-threatening way and is tailored to cater for a range of abilities.
Included may be the following activities:
- Water movement skills
- Gentle exercise
- Correct swimming techniques
- Exercise to improve endurance and fitness levels
Personal Survival and Lifesaving Skills
Lifesaving skills are not just for those at the local pool or beach. Everybody should have some essential personal survival techniques and basic rescue skills. You never know when these skills may need to be put into practice either to ensure your own safety or to assist somebody else in trouble.
Skills taught will include:
- Safe entries and exits
- Survival techniques and strategies
- Rescue principles
- Non-swimming rescues
