We recently held an event called Activities Matter to help our care providers learn more about the importance of helping people stay active, whatever their age or ability.
![Mohammed Facey, aged 82, has a go on the Motiview exercise bike.](/sites/default/files/styles/ob_barnet_news_item_full/public/2019-09/image00001.jpeg?itok=hv7f3-76)
Mohammed Facey, aged 82, has a go on the Motiview exercise bike.
The Worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Caroline Stock, attended the event on Tuesday 3 September, which was at Middlesex University. See her have a go on the Motiview exercise bike, where residents can cycle – digitally – to wherever they’d like to go.
Mohammed Facey, aged 82, who also tried it out on Tuesday, said: “I found the Motiview exercise bike easy to use. I’d like to use it again!”
More videos: Other devices on display at the event included the Jolly Trolley, while service-providers and healthcare charities such as Kissing It Better told people about what they do.
Councillor Stock said: “Rather than just sitting in a care home, residents are interacting with maybe a bicycle and getting moving, so for me this event has been really exciting. I have been very privileged to meet a number of the stallholders. One had a device where you can and record your memories. For me, it wasn’t so much that the person would have their memories recorded. It was more that when a carer changes, especially if a person’s dementia is getting worse, they can look back and understand what that person’s all about.”