COTA Vic Live Website : Healthy & Active Ageing

There is now overwhelming evidence on the importance of physical activity for everyone – with significant benefits for older people. Physical activity provides physical, mental and social benefits that translate to improved health, mobility, independence and wellbeing.

Regular physical activity has the potential to change the way we age. In fact, much loss of function that was once thought to be “normal” ageing is actually the result of not being physically active.

Despite all the important benefits, generally older adults are not active enough for health benefits. The good news is that it's never too late to start.

In realising its mission to mobilise older people, and those who work with them, to age well in a just society, COTA Victoria acknowledges the key role of physical activity, and is committed to developing strategies that encourage and enable people to be active as they age.

COTA has established a Physical Activity Unit to work towards these aims.

Some of the key initiatives the Physical Activity Unit manages are:

Living Longer Living Stronger™
COTA Cycling
Back in the Game
COTA-PICSAR Project

Other Healthy & Active Ageing initiatives:

OM:NI (Older Men: New Ideas)

Keen-Agers Recreational Table Tennis

“Man does not cease to play because he grows old. Man grows old because he ceases to play.” George Bernard Shaw

“Man does not cease to play because he grows old. Man grows old because he ceases to play.”
George Bernard Shaw