Fun & Fitness / A Health Body

Fitness and fun go together at Vassar-Warner Home, where our priority is to ensure our residents remain independent and in good health.

Planned activities keep bodies moving, benefitting participants’ physical, mental and emotional health. From a simple ball toss to regularly scheduled walks through our historic Poughkeepsie neighborhood, Vassar-Warner Home’s active programs provide great ways to socialize while promoting a healthy body.

Fitness programs offered weekly include:

• Various recreational outings
• Yoga
• Dance sessions, including Zumba
• Exercise groups
• Daily walks indoors and outdoors

In addition to monitoring residents’ changing health needs, Vassar-Warner Home’s professional staff is on duty every day of the week, 24 hours a day, to attend to occasional physical ailments and illnesses.

Services provided by the staff include:

• Arranging transportation to a doctor’s appointment
• Requesting house call doctor visits
• Ordering and assisting with prescriptions

 

In the event of an emergency, Vassar-Warner Home is within a few miles of two top-notch Poughkeepsie hospitals: Vassar Brothers Medical Center and MidHudson Regional Hospital.