Gardening is a wonderful hobby that can provide mild exercise, stress reduction, and even increase your lifespan, according to recent research. However, gardening can also pose some challenges and risks for older adults, such as risking falls, and present difficulty bending, lifting, digging, kneeling, and getting up and down. If you have special limits talk to your Dr.
In this talk, Stu Dalton will share his experience and suggestions on how to make gardening safer and more pleasurable as we age. Stu has gardened over 60 years, and is a UC Master Gardener and American Rose Society Master Rosarian. He does have two total knee replacements and has had to learn how to deal with the limits in the garden, His Menlo Park garden has over 150 roses, flowers, fruit and vegetables He will cover topics such as safety, warming up, preventing falls and being aware of hazards, using tools, technology, and tips to make gardening easier and more enjoyable. He will discuss safety, proper clothing and gloves, study shoes, stretch before starting. Not only that, but he will suggest what to do to assess hazards and your needs.
Gardening tools can make your work easier and faster, but they can also cause strain, pain, and fatigue if they are not used correctly or if they are not suitable for your needs. So he will cover how to reach, prune, lift, weed, dig, kneel and reduce falls as well as getting down and back up. The goal is more enjoyment and fewer physical limits.
Presenter: Stu Dalton, Stu became an American Rose Society (ARS)
Consulting Rosarian in 1988 and has been a member of the Peninsula Rose Society and ARS since 1985. As a Consulting Rosarian he has provided garden visits and education on rose care for decades. He also is a UC Master Gardener and has given numerous presentations on rose care appropriate for various times of the year. He covers equipment, safety in the garden, management of pests and diseases, principles of pruning or deadheading as well as demonstrating rose care techniques. He grows over 200 roses of many types in his Menlo Park home.
