After spending a long time working and caring for family, senior citizens deserve active & productive living in their happy retirement. Active Adult Communities offer social interaction, a full and dynamic lifestyle, wellbeing, and just the best support for inhabitants.
Consider these important points to help your senior citizens enjoy happiness and health like in senior communities.
1. Treat depression
Depression is one of the common medical conditions, especially in senior citizens.
It can be down to traumatic life events like retirement or losing a life partner. It could also be caused by a medical condition or medication side effects.
To improve the standard of living, it is important to identify the signs of depression and get help from a practitioner, psychologist, therapist, or counselor.
2. Help them feel valuable and important
No matter that you are young or too old, everyone wants to be valuable and important.
When you take care of senior citizens, you need to make them feel like they are still very important in your life and they are not a burden on you.
Even if they cannot do these chores efficiently or completely, that’s ok. What’s important is that they are contributing.
You can seek help in the tasks they can handle, such as:
• Wardrobe arranging
• Organizing drawers
• Food preparation – for example, trimming vegetables
• Help you in grocery shopping
3. Encourage regular physical activity
Daily physical activity, regardless of how gentle, helps keeps both body and mind feeling objective and positive.
Physically, work out boosts the immune system, maintained blood pressure, better sleep quality, better heart health, relieves anxiety, and improves strength & endurance, and more.
4. Keep them mentally active
Different kinds of puzzles, mind puzzles, other brain games, reading, and writing are all the best activities for mental encouragement.
Having a sharp and active mind improves overall well-being.
5. Help them stay connected with family & friends
Senior citizens who are isolated and feeling alone have shorter lives and are at more risk for dementia.
Prevent that by supporting and serving your senior citizens to stay connected with their family members & friends.
Some suggestions:
• Make arrangement for family and friends to visit, dine with, or take them out regularly
• Hire a good transportation service so they can visit anywhere they want
• Encourage them to go to any celebration & events.
• Get them involved in a hobby
• Support them to volunteer with religious, social, or charity organizations
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