Wii are the keep-fit golden girls!

Oldham’s Golden Girls Elsie Harrop, Sandra Craddock and Eva Gregory

OLDHAM’S golden girls have proved you are never too old to get into shape — even tackling fitness sessions at the age of 98.

Sandra Craddock (74), Eva Gregory (86) and 98-year-old Elsie Harrop showed that age is no barrier to using modern technology either as they took part in Wii fitness sessions in the run up to World Health Day.

The World Health Day (April 7) topic of Ageing and Fitness could not be more appropriate for the three ladies who are enjoying a new-found enthusiasm for exercise at their sheltered housing in Chadderton.

Zumba, aerobics and Wii Fit are all in day’s fun for the friends, who live at Guinness Northern Counties’ Bickerton Court in Old Lane.

They are thrilled with the improvements to their health and fitness from the new activities which have resulted in Sandra joining her local gym and Eva discarding her walking stick.

Guinness Care & Support, which provide care services at the housing complex, piloted the sessions in May, 2011, as part of a new NHS initiative. It proved so successful that it is now part-funding the programme and working in partnership with Pennine Care to roll it out to seven more schemes across Oldham.
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