The Paper's reporter Ma Zuoyu
Sports Health Home for the Elderly. The image of this article is the surging news reporter Ma Zuoyu
China's population aged 60 and above is 264.02 million, accounting for 18.70%. Among them, the population aged 65 and over was 190.64 million, accounting for 13.50%, compared with 2010, the proportion of the population aged 60 and over increased by 5.44 percentage points, and the proportion of the population aged 65 and over increased by 4.63 percentage points.
This is the authoritative conclusion of China's seventh national census – China's population is further aging. Health problems bear the brunt of this.
How can the health problems of the elderly be improved and the effects of various chronic diseases alleviated? Fitness for all is one of the answers.
On June 10th, the first batch of "Sports and Health Homes for the Elderly" in Shanghai was officially inaugurated, which is the first community multi-functional fitness venue for the elderly in Shanghai.
Pioneered the "one-stop" sports service, and built 100 in 5 years
According to the data of the seventh population census of Shanghai, the population aged 60 and above in Shanghai in 2020 was 5.8155 million, accounting for 23.4%, an increase of 8.3 percentage points over 2010. This proportion is also much higher than the proportion of elderly people in the national census.
However, in recent years, the physical fitness rate of the elderly in Shanghai has ranked among the top in the country. One of the important reasons is that Shanghai has been creating a "love fitness, happy fitness" living atmosphere for the elderly.
The just-unveiled "Sports Health Home for the Elderly" is a typical example. As the country's first community multi-functional fitness place for the elderly, the "Elderly Sports Health Home" adheres to the principle of attaching equal importance to intelligence and aging, comprehensively upgrading hardware, software and services, integrating public service resources such as sports, pension, health and health, and providing the elderly with "one-stop" sports and health care services such as physical fitness testing, basic health testing, scientific fitness guidance, chronic disease sports intervention, sports rehabilitation training, health knowledge popularization and leisure and social interaction.
"In the past, it was a walk in the park, there was fitness equipment to move at will, no one guided, and there was nothing to gain." Shi Baomin has always been a Shanghai uncle who is keen on sports and fitness, and before experiencing the "Elderly Sports Health Home", he can also maintain the habit of exercising twice a day for one hour each time, but the environment and professionalism of exercise are far less than now.
"It's different to be here now, there are fitness facilities for the elderly, and there are professional guidance, and insisting on exercise can see the effect."
In the view of Zhao Guangsheng, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, there are many elderly people like Shi Baomin who love sports, "their fitness needs are also very strong." ”
It is precisely for this reason that according to the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, there are currently 18 sports and health homes for the elderly that have been built and opened in various districts of the city, all of which are free or 99 yuan per month for low-fee public welfare.
Shanghai plans to build at least one new "Elderly Sports Health Home" in each district this year, and the total number of "Elderly Sports Health Homes" will be no less than 30 throughout the year; by 2025, Shanghai will build no less than 100 "Elderly Sports Health Homes".
Smart services to create aging fitness venues
Nowadays, there are many fitness venues, so what is the difference between the "Elderly Sports and Health Home" and other fitness venues?
The answer is obvious – that is, all sports and fitness equipment and amenities are specially designed and improved for the elderly.
For example, the treadmill in the stadium, taking into account the safety of aging, starts at a speed of 0.1km/h, and has a heart rate test function to avoid or reduce the heart rate load of athletes above the safe heart rate range value.
The exercise bike is equipped with a backrest, armrests measuring heart rate on both sides of the seat, and the angle of the seat backrest and the distance between the front and back can be adjusted. In addition, there are equipment in the stadium to help improve sleep disorders, which resemble a bed and can meet the elderly's lying posture training.
"We want the elderly to walk in here and move by standing, sitting, and lying down." Wang Liang, the relevant person in charge of the "Elderly Sports Health Home" located in the Healthy Community Lohas Space in Xuhui District, told the surging news reporter, "The sportsization of rehabilitation equipment and the rehabilitation of sports equipment are the biggest differences of our fitness venue, and these equipment are also developed through theoretical practice, including clinical verification." ”
In order to be able to monitor the physical condition of every fitness elderly, every elderly person who walks into the "Elderly Sports Health Home" wears a smart bracelet on his wrist. All the data will be transmitted to the staff's computers and the big screen in the venue, and the staff will judge the fitness of each elderly person based on their physical data.
Not only that, each fitness and wellness equipment has also been intelligently transformed, such as two intelligent emergency devices set up on the treadmill. If the elderly fall off the treadmill, the treadmill will stop immediately, ensuring the personal safety of the elderly at all times.
"Aunt Feng, Aunt Feng, you can't ride so fast." When an old man exercises too "intensely" on the fitness machine, the on-site worker garden will immediately come forward to guide and carefully explain the scientific fitness knowledge.
It is understood that in the future, Shanghai will gradually establish an electronic file of "one person and one file" for the elderly's sports and health, integrate into the digital transformation of the city, rely on "Internet + fitness" to provide professional and intelligent services for aging, strengthen the sample tracking research of exercise to promote the health of the elderly, and create a demonstration site for the integration of "physical medicine and nursing" and a people's livelihood project welcomed by the elderly.
The Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau plans to distribute about 20,000 sports vouchers for the elderly.
Launched a promotion for the elderly to attract the elderly to participate in sports
"The private gym outside is expensive and not necessarily suitable for us seniors, it is both in line with our actual needs and very affordable. I heard that it is cheaper now after receiving the coupon, only 69 a month. For us elderly people who come every day, it is only more than 2 yuan per day. This is the true feeling of the elderly Shi Baomin.
Not only that, in order to support the "Elderly Sports Health Home" to provide more high-quality and people-friendly services for the elderly, the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau issued a special sports consumption voucher for the elderly for the first time this year.
The Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau plans to distribute about 20,000 sports consumption coupons for the elderly, and each elderly person can use up to 1 ticket per month, which is directly deducted when consuming.
"In order to be able to effectively target the consumption of the elderly, we have specially set up such a content." Zhao Guangsheng told the surging news reporter that the sports consumption coupons for the elderly are in the trial operation stage, and the city's 11 public welfare fees for the "elderly sports health homes" can use the elderly sports consumption coupons, and will provide professional sports consumption voucher consultation and manual services for the elderly, "We also hope that the majority of the elderly can actively participate in the exercise, so that more elderly people can devote themselves to exercise." ”
"As long as I'm okay, I basically come every day." For another 71-year-old citizen, Zhang Baohua, it is more like his "second home".
Zhang Baohua is an elderly man living alone at home, and his only hobby is to like to smoke. But in his own words, "I smoke a lot and my body doesn't feel as good as it used to." ”
Zhang Baohua originally just wanted to exercise in this fitness venue, but he did not expect that in the process of exercise, he also met many friends of similar age and the same interests and hobbies - so they often met together for fitness exercises and chatted together.
When asked why he insisted on coming to the "Elderly Health Sports Home", Zhang Baohua's answer pointed out the value of the fitness venue for the elderly, "I have made friends and exercised, why not enjoy it?" ”
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