Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: August 2, 2025 - 07:30
Fitness is being promoted in seniors’ homes across Canada for better health, social connection
August 2, 2025
Ninety-two-year-old Jean Mitchell has been active for as long as she can remember. She played sports while growing up in Saskatchewan – tennis, skating, volleyball – but admits that anything requiring hand-eye co-ordination was not where she shone.
Then she met her husband, an avid outdoorsman who believed the only way to handle a nine-to-five city job was to ditch corporate wear for outdoor gear as soon as the weekend hit. They enjoyed canoeing, overnight hiking and cross-country skiing during the nearly six decades spent together before he passed in 2014.
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