Benefits

Benefits for residents

• Physical: 
  • improve physical functions, like condition and muscle strength. Residents with very low to high physical needs enjoy the bike corners.  
• Social-emotional
  • experience joy and contentment while cycling
  • start social conversations easily about what they see
  • experience seeing new parts of the world 
  • enhance positive emotions when biking in familiar scenes again e
• Psychological
  • exercise leads to increased self-worth
  • residents focus on what they can do instead of focusing on limitations
  • family members are delighted when they see that their loved ones are enjoying the exercises and doing well 

Benefits for staff   

• more personal contact with residents
• easy to initiate personal conversations
• extra proud of their job
• improved skills in providing exercises

Benefits for management

• positive attention: the innovative exercise corners attract a lot of highly positive attention from journals, local- and national press
• retain talent by providing new opportunities and increased responsibility for staff
• it easily creates a buzz in the local community to attract people to your homes
• unique and distinctive from other locations