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Strong for Life is a strengthening exercise program designed by physical therapists for home use by older adults to improve strength, balance, and overall health. Therabands (elastic resistive bands) are used to provide force for strengthening muscles. This program targets specific muscles that are important in every day movements such as getting out of a chair and walking.

Each exercise on the video is scalable in difficulty and the instructions on how to modify the exercises to suit different strength and functional levels are provided verbally by the instructor as well as shown visually by the elders in the video.

Contact:
Health and Disability Research Institute
Attention: Strong for Life
Boston University
53 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-7375
E-mail: hdr@bu.edu

Website:
http://www.bu.edu/hdr/products/stronglife/index.html