Live longer at St George’s Park
St George’s Park highlights: according to a study by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute being active and living a healthy lifestyle into your seventies can add up to six years onto your life expectancy.
Taken from a study of 1,810 people aged over 75 and reported in the British Medical Journal, the findings said that men with the healthiest lifestyles live six years longer and women five years. The report showed that swimming, walking and gymnastics increased life expectancy by around two years and those with a rich social life lived a year and a half longer than those without. In addition, even after the age of 85, low risk lifestyles prolonged life by four years.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics showed men in the UK could expect to live until the age of 78 and women until 82.
Perfect for people looking to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle, including all the activities recommended in the study, St George’s Park in Ditchling, East Sussex is ideal for the over 60’s. Boasting a vast array of social and leisure facilities including a gymnasium, 250 acres of parkland and landscaped gardens for walking, an active Residents Association, restaurant and café, residents can enjoy their later years having fun and keeping fit. A leisure centre with swimming pool and spa, and tennis courts will also be available in the last phase of the development.
Phillip Smith, Sales and Marketing Director of St George’s Park comments: “As can be seen from the Swedish study, leading a healthy and active lifestyle can make a significant different to people’s life expectancy. At St George’s Park we encourage residents to enjoy the excellent range of social and leisure facilities available to ensure they make the most of their later years and lead long, happy lives.”
The sports and leisure facilities are both indoor and outdoor, thereby ensuring activities are available all year around. Enabling residents to enjoy lots of fresh air, outdoor pursuits include fishing in the lake, golf, bowling, croquet and even an allotment club. Alternatively indoor activities include table tennis, snooker, line dancing, short tennis and short mat bowls. The Resident’s Association also organises a packed timetable of activities to keep everyone busy. These include art club, local history, scrabble, book clubs and friendly bridge club and the ever popular ‘knit and natter’ club.
To further enrich their social life, residents can enjoy a healthy meal with friends and visiting guests in the café or restaurant or take a trip into the local towns with friends on the mini bus service or make use of the pool car service. They can also visit the hairdressers, enjoy a book in the library or enjoy one of the many activities that take part in the original concert hall. This makes an ideal place for special occasions, communal gatherings and other events including plays, guest speakers, film nights or concerts.
Apartments throughout the village are generously proportioned, well planned, light and finished to a very high specification. All are fully accessible for wheelchair users and residents with mobility impairments, while offering attractive, contemporary interiors. For peace of mind St George’s Park has ensured that all apartments come with monitored security, video entry and fire alarm systems.
St George’s Park is within 3 miles of Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill both of which offer good local shopping including major supermarkets and excellent rail links to Brighton, Gatwick Airport and London Victoria.
Prices for currently available properties at St Georges Park start at £345,000 for a two bedroom apartment. For further information, visit stgeorgespark.co.uk.
