How much time do seniors typically spend on leisure activities per week?

According to the research, 20% of seniors dedicate more than twelve hours a week to their leisure activities, and 70% of seniors report spending more time on leisure compared to when they were professionally active.

What are the main goals of recreational activities for seniors?

Recreational activities for seniors are often determined by goals such as relaxation, entertainment, and personal development. These activities allow elderly people to express their emotions, free themselves from tension, relax, have fun, and connect with others.

What are the preferred daily activities of seniors according to the research?

According to the research from the Korian Institute of Well-Aging, seniors' daily pleasures are primarily social and cultural activities.

Why does leisure serve as an important vector for seniors?

Leisure is a wonderful vector of sociability for seniors. It allows them to escape, entertain themselves, join others, and avoid the boredom that could come from complete rest without passions or entertainment.

Jeannette tested… retirement

Q: How much free time does Jeannette have compared to active workers?

With seven hours of free time in a day, Jeannette enjoys twice as much time for herself as her still active compatriots.

Q: What does Jeannette consider retirement to be?

For Jeannette, retirement is discovering spaces of freedom. It means finally managing her time as she sees fit, building new projects, reconnecting with friends, and enjoying her leisure activities.

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Jeannette tested for you...

Retirement: a source of pleasure!

“Nothing is so unbearable for man as to be in complete rest, without passions, without entertainment, without application. He then feels his nothingness, his abandonment, his insufficiency, his dependence, his impotence, his emptiness.”

But retiring, for Jeannette, is discovering spaces of freedom. Finally managing her time as she sees fit, building new projects, reconnecting with friends, enjoying her leisure activities.

A first figure: 20% of seniors dedicate more than twelve hours a week to their leisure activities. 70% of seniors report spending more time on leisure compared to the time when they were professionally active.

And Jeannette, she needs leisure, to escape, to entertain herself. Otherwise, it would be too boring!

Each senior occupies their leisure time with recreational activities, which are often determined by the following goals: relaxation, entertainment, personal development...

Recreational activity allows every elderly person, or not, to express their emotions, to free themselves from tension, to relax and have fun, to join others. Leisure is a wonderful vector of sociability.

Thus, with seven hours of free time in a day, Jeannette enjoys twice as much time for herself as her still active compatriots.

And what do you do in retirement?

According to seniors aged 65 and over, it is easier to indulge oneself when one is a young retiree!

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Source: KORIAN INSTITUTE OF WELL-AGING

Their daily pleasures are social and cultural activities.

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Source: KORIAN INSTITUTE OF WELL-AGING

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