Group A : 10:am-11:30am and Group B: 11:30am-12:30pm

At the Chen’s Style Tai Chi Centre in Chinatown, Manchester

Since 2009, two Tai Chi Classes have been funded by MCC-Public Health for Chinese older people aged over 60+ on every Wednesday morning at the Chen’s Style Tai Chi Centre. Over 100 older people attended the classes during this period. Currently, there are 76 participants and on average 17 people attend each session weekly. 58(87%) female users and 9 (23%) male users. 45(67%) participants are from Manchester areas and 22 (33%) participants come from Greater Manchester areas. About 51(76%) over the age of 65+, 15(22%) aged between 54-64 and 1(2%) under 54. About 15%(10 people) are well over 80+.

The elders have reported that the Tai Chi has significantly improved their balance, they slept better, their limbs movements were stronger and less stiff. They also reported that they felt good that they had reduced to see GPs. Recently two colleagues from the Fall Prevention Team had visited the Tai Chi Classes and they were very impressed with the groups.

60+太極班由曼城市政府公眾健康部資助

每週三上午10時半至下午12半

自2009年中心得到資助每週三早上在唐人街的陳氏太極中心提供兩堂太極班。前后有100多人參加過太極班。現時有76人經常參予，平均每週每班有17人參加。大部份是女性長者(58人,87%)而男性長者(22人,23%)佔小部份。45人(67%)來自曼城各區，22人(33%)來自大曼城區。有51人(76%)年歲是超過65歲、15人(22%)年歲是55-64歲之間及1人(2%)年歲是54歲以下。約有10人(15%)則年齡超過80歲。從他們口中的評語耍太極對他們的健康很有幫助、平衡改善了和睡得好、關節靈活了並少去見家庭醫生。