Products: Active Ageing Activity Cards

Active Ageing Activity Cards are a ‘Low tech’ material that can be used by persons organizing a physical activity for older adults and adults with a disability. These resource cards present examples of easy to perform activities that can be beneficial for elderly with different disabilities. Each card contains the name and the explanation of the activity, its main goal, materials needed to perform it, safety considerations, possible adaptations according to the performance level of the participants, and ideas to make the game/activity more attractive, so it can be used more often in the same group.

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The cards propose 20 different activities grouped in 7 categories:

 WARMING UP, INTRODUCTION

• INTRO card
• Active 8

• 1. Find the Word Warm Up
• 2. Dice Warm Up

COORDINATION

• 3. Balloon Frenzy
• 4. Turning and Looking
• 5. Moving Target
• 6 . Clap and Walk
• 7. At Home
• 8. Rock Climbing

BALANCE

• 9. Tread Strong
• 10. Question of Balance

COGNITIVE , SOCIAL

• 11. Rings and Bags
• 12. Planets Game
• 13. Kuddelmuddel

STRETCHING

• 14. Torso & Lower Body Stretching
• 15. Neck, Head & Upper Body Stretching

STRENGTH

• 16. Push - Away
• 17. Body Strength
• 18. Lower Body Strength

RELAXATION

• 19. Ripples and Waves
• 20. Relaxing Touch

The Cards are being translated into many European languages! See the good examples!

• Bulgarian version of AAA Cards
• Czech version of AAA Cards
• Dutch version of AAA Cards
• Finish version of AAA Cards
• French version of AAA Cards
• German version of AAA Cards
• Greek version of AAA Cards
• Italian version of AAA Cards
• Latvian version of AAA Cards
• Lithuanian version of AAA Cards
• Polish version of AAA Cards
• Romanian version of AAA Cards
• Slovak version of AAA Cards
• Slovenian version of AAA Cards

Download the version for translation (Power Point)