StarSilver: Initiative to help seniors build muscle strength, live better


Nur Mashitoh (right) during one of the sessions at the Mini Muscle Therapy Community Centre at PPR Seri Cempaka where seniors are guided on muscle strengthening exercises. - AZMAN GHANI/The Star

Seventy-year-old Mani Mohd has always been known as a cheerful and resourceful woman among her neighbours at the Seri Cempaka People’s Housing Programme (PPR) in Kuala Lumpur.

Behind her active presentation, however, not many people knew that she had been silently enduring excruciating pain in her knee and shoulder joints.

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