Bending and kneeling are some of the challenging aspects of gardening for elderly people. It's not always easy to get down to the ground to tend to the plants. A raised garden bed brings the plants up ...

Gardening improves balance and walking speed in elderly people with dementia and cognitive impairment, a scientific study has found. Horticultural therapy can also make people with these ...

A charity in Kent has set up weekly community gardening sessions to help older people feel less isolated. Communigrow hosts the sessions in East Malling which it describes as a "safe space" for ...

Carrying the shopping, gardening, or vacuuming, can help older people to lead healthier lives for longer, according to leading physiotherapists. They warn that millions of older people risk falls ...

The Edinburgh researchers say the findings provide some of the first evidence that gardening in older age is associated ... It follows people born in the Edinburgh area who sat an intelligence ...