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Former Children’s Swim Instructor Teaches Exercise to Seniors With Dementia
Eun Yunkyung began teaching exercise to seniors with dementia in August 2024 at a day care center in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
She had spent about 30 years earlier working as a swimming instructor for children aged five to seven.
Her first class for older adults used basketball.
Participants sat in chairs, passed a ball and shot it toward a low hoop.
Eun led them in shouting, “We can do it,” a cheer she had used with her young swimming students.
The sessions bring group exercise to people with dementia, and Eun is described as a teacher who makes them smile.
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Eun Yoon-kyung began teaching exercise to seniors with dementia at a day-care center in Gwangmyeong in August 2024.
Her first class was basketball, with participants passing and throwing a ball while seated.
Eun encouraged the group by calling out, “We can do it,” and the seniors repeated the chant.
More than 30 years earlier, she had used the same chant as a swimming instructor for children aged 5 to 7.
- Who
- Eun Yoon-kyung, 56, taught the class to seniors with dementia.
- What
- She led a basketball exercise class as a senior exercise instructor.
- When
- August 2024.
- Where
- A day-care center in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
- Why
- Not stated
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Eun worked as a swimming instructor for children aged 5 to 7 and used the chant “We can do it.
Eun led her first senior exercise class at a day-care center in Gwangmyeong.
- Instructor
- Eun Yoon-kyung, 56
- First class
- August 2024
- Location
- Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province
- Exercise
- Basketball
- Earlier teaching
- Swimming instructor for children aged 5 to 7
What people are saying
We can do it