Saturday, 23 January 2016

ATTITUDES ABOUT INDIVIDUAL HEALTH RESPONSIBILITY AND CARE ACCOUNTABILITY

On 19th January we prepared conversation hours in Elderly home Ljutomer once again.There were 15 elderly people who took part in our event. The main theme of conversation was what do elderly people think about healthy lifestyle. We asked them how do they take care of their health. They all had pretty similar answers. Most of them participate on everyweek sports activities, like basketball, bowling,.. They also usually take a walk through the Ljutomer's park and when it is summer they frequently stop for ice cream. Lots of women said that they occasionally give up desserts because of diabetes and blood pressure.They also drink lots of water and tea without sugar. They believe healthy lifestyle is very important especially because with it they have better control of their illness. However we realised that in winter, although there are many sports activities organised for them, they rarely participate in them. They said the main reason for this is that it is too cold and that is why they feel lazy in these short winter days. As a solution we decided to organise a walk with them through our neighborhoud next month. They were all very excited about it.



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