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The meeting Athletes Senior celebrates its fourth edition with the participation of more than 200 seniors (19/04/2017)

The godfather of this edition is Úrsula Ruiz, Spain's pitching champion and Olympic athlete.

It is about offering an open experience to the reality of the elderly, convinced of the benefits that physical activity, coexistence and leisure contribute to our health and self-esteem.

The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, along with the Councilor for Policy of the Mayor in the Municipal Consistory, Fatima Mínguez, has reported that more than 200 elderly people of the municipality participate throughout the day in the pavilion of Las Alamedas in the III edition of the Meeting "Senior Athletes", with the collaboration of the "la Caixa" Obra Social, which has been represented in this event by the office manager of La Caixa, Juan Serrano, where they can enjoy games and physical activities , Sensory, cognitive and equipment such as bowling, cone-rings, targets, number soup, calculation, attention, language, ball-passing train, water throwing, song recognition, refraction and volleyball.

The godmother of this edition is Úrsula Ruiz, Spain's throwing champion and Olympic athlete.

Attending the meeting are elderly people who use the homes and day centers of Domingo Sastre, Caser, Poncemar, San Diego, Alzheimer and Parkinson,

The Mayor explained that through the program of socio-cultural animation of the Department of Social Policy of the Mayor intend to develop projects and activities such as this one, in which our elders are active protagonists, since one of the fundamental objectives on which we work for Part of the Consistory is to offer our major projects in which they develop an active role of direct participation.

The meeting offers an experience open to the reality of the elderly, convinced of the benefits that physical activity, coexistence and leisure contribute to our health and self-esteem.

Thus, it arose in order to contribute to the maintenance of the physical and functional condition of the elderly in the health centers of our municipality, while fostering tolerance and solidarity from the acceptance of diversity.

This program aims to create social, cultural and sporting spaces where our elders do not lose the protagonism of being able to enjoy an active aging in any part of our community.

Therefore we try to promote events that are appropriate to their conditions in our society where they are the protagonists and adapting these activities to be inclusive, designed according to the approach indicated by the participating entities.

Its main objectives are to facilitate the intercentres relationship as a way of sharing experience, creating quality of life, well-being and personal satisfaction of our elders, maintaining inclusive spaces for the dependents, as well as facilitating personal communication and interaction with new people To its center extending its social relations between equals.

The different games and activities will be physical, sensory, cognitive and team.

These are tests such as bowling, cone-rings, targets, number soup, calculus, attention, language, train-ball, water throwing, song recognition, refranero and volleyball.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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