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PAGE 19p, WHFPY RE IýV .fI IMbYAtTGUsP 9,19 A Supplement For Seniors Exercise can be beneficial for seniors By iBarb Lenpen-Peeman For the Durham Region Fltness Council Canadas population je growing noticeably older year by year. Elderly people 65 yeare of age and older in 1901 formed 5 per cent of the Population, or one in 20. In 1976 they formed 8.7 per cent of the population, or one in 11. And it je expected to make up about 12 per cent by the year 2001, or one in 8. Retirement does not mean the end of productive work. Many older Canadiane participate in intellectual, social and political activities. Participation in physical recreation or fltness je a positive addliction to the older aduit lifeetyle. Benefits of regular exercise and of special interests to older adulte include the following: 1. It keeps bones dense and strong and helpe niaintain mobility in the jointe, 2. [t improves blood circulation and keeps muscles supple and strong, 3. It assiste in weight control, 4. It helpe maintain balance, co-ordination, and agility, 5. It aid's digestion and reduces the incidence of constipation, 6. It reduces tension and fatigue, provides extra energy and helpe you relax and sleep better. To achieve the above benefite SEE PAGE 19 BILL ROBINSON does the calling for square _ dancing sessions hèld at ..... the Whitby Seniors' Acti- vity Centre. There are afternoon sessions on ~~ Wednesdays until in-~. .. struction begins in Sep ' .. tember, while new mem-*~ .. bers are welcome to the 1 -Friday Night Swingers............l.. sessions on Aug. il and 25, 7:30 p.m. * pO~ C o- operat ive housing for seniors The aging of- Canada's population 'is proceeding at an ever increasing, some would say, frightening rate. By the turn of the century one quarter of the population, parents of the baby boom generation, will be seniors. The pressures the aging process will create already are starting to be felt in many sectors of the economý, including ousfing. Many seniors are living onfxdincomes and can only afford modest accommodation. Co-operative housing is becoming a popular way of satisfying their needs. It provides for user participation, perniits them te, choose their comniunity and neighborhood, and the type of housing te fit their lifestyles. In addition it provides non-profit, cost-efficient housing, lending itself to volunteer and community social support services. "Co-operative housing projecte can be designed to, accommodate seniors' changing needs," says Allan McIntosh- manager of anglophone co-operati.ve services for the federal government's Co-operatives Secretariat. "Two have been completed in British Columbia with wide hallways, wheelchair rampe and other amenities te ease accees. In this way people are able to etay out of institutions longer.". In 1980 there were only six co-op housing projects for seniors in Canada. By 1986 there were 15 and teday there are 45 offering over 2,000 unite. IW addition there are about 1,000 more seniors' imite in 90 other co-op housing projecte. "Seniors are as varied as the reet of the population," said McIntosh.* "Some like te, be with other members of their own age group while othere like te, be in mixed communitiesi. Their co-op housing projecte refiect this diversity, most are 100 per cent SEE PAGE 20 IF TS A LOW PRUCE YOU WANT.... JERRY MAS UT "f TTURfUIRJ - ----------- - -------------------- ------------------