Exercise For Successful Surgery.
We’re helping injured and disabled seniors prepare for needed joint surgery and recover faster after surgery.
Working with geriatricians at Mass General Geriatric Medicine (which serves over 10,000 seniors), For Every Body is offering free customized exercise routines at home to help seniors gain strength and flexibility before orthopedic surgery. Your donation helps us publicize these offerings, give users technical support, and scale up to other geriatric clinics and practices.
We’re offering customized online exercise routines as short as a few minutes (Fit Happens!), in order to deliver what seniors need and can do successfully. There’s strong evidence that even a small amount of conditioning makes for more successful surgery and recovery, so many geriatric providers are offering free gym memberships or personal trainers to perisurgical senior patients.
Our target audience is usually isolated by their lack of resources or the pandemic, and often their mobility is limited by problems with their joints, muscles or weight. For some of them, English is a second language, so donations are needed to dub our recordings into Spanish and other languages. With more resources, For Every Body can also help older adults get at-home internet and use online services.
For more information, please visit: MGH Geriatric Medicine, Federal Affordable Connectivity Program and OATS.
Thank you!