Power Centering for Seniors

Power Centering for Seniors is an innovative East-meets-West intervention (75-minute, twice weekly, supervised group classes over 12 weeks) that integrates Western best practice muscle strength and balance training components with Chinese Tai Chi/Qi Gong to improve mobility and quality of life in older, community-dwelling adults. Home practice is recommended (approximately 30 minutes three times per week on non-course days). The modularly designed course consists of four cycles with six themes repeated in each cycle. Course exercises increase in intensity throughout the twelve-week intervention period. Repetition of cycles and themes prepares participants for continuing their individualized version of the program after the group course intervention is complete. This should lead to long-term practice of the exercises learned in the intervention and to sustained positive effects of the training.