Long-term care residents at Huron Lodge in Windsor have a new way of staying active while enjoying the outdoors.
The City of Windsor's Accessibility Advisory Committee has spent $69,000 installing exercise equipment on a concrete patio.
"The day [the equipment] was put out here and they let us go on the concrete, I was out here already," says Vice President of the Huron Lodge Residents Council Oskar Rauscher. "I've been out here I don't know how many times over the last few weeks. The only times I don't come out is when it gets above 90 F."
He adds that Huron Lodge has the same equipment indoors, but it feels better to exercise outside.
Huron Lodge residents use new exercise equipment outside of the long-term care home in Windsor, June 21, 2017. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)