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The video introduces indoor curling as an exercise hobby for seniors and people with disabilities (in Finnish). You can watch the video in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3AQUj5Ngzg.

This article explored three different approaches or interventions in which previously low-mobility senior citizens have been made to move and play sports. The task is not easy, which is probably best reflected in the Go Out with the Elderly Campaign, which took more than four years to bring about a clear increase in the number of participants. Indoor curling is also a good example of an activity that has been going on for a long time. One of the explanatory factors in this was that the movers belonged to the same background community.

The long-term effects of recreational football cannot yet be said for sure, but its popularity during the project is a good basis for the activity to become an excellent model for socially inclusive sport.

The physical activities, exercises and sports presented are very different. Outdoor activities and walking are suitable for everyone, indoor curling is a sport suitable for everyone, when football is very close to a normal sport. Of course, even that has been applied and adapted somewhat to seniors in recreational football.