Socialization is a significant reason many elders regularly opt to live in a retirement community. If your weekly schedule is unoccupied, but you seek an active social life, then a retirement community may help. You may participate in music therapy, join reading groups or engage in sports activities to make friends in personal care communities. Active socializing can prevent feelings of estrangement, isolation, or depression.
Playing Games To Keep Your Mind Engaged
Games are usually a popular form of elderly mental exercise. Research has indicated that playing board games might benefit mental health or recreation. Also, board games are accessible to many, easy to participate in, or fun to join with peers. There are many versions of games to take part in, like chess, scrabble, board games, jigsaw puzzles, or crosswords. Puzzles might be an entertaining activity for elders experiencing some form of mental health ailment, like depression or grief.
Creating Arts And Crafts
Making crafts with one’s own hands is not just fun but could benefit one’s mental health. Research shows that elders that engage in skills like knitting or pottery hold at least a 30 to 50 percent reduction in the overall risks of memory loss. Crafting may also reduce anxiety, alleviate depression, or cultivate a feeling of joy and peace. Taking on a craft project may develop one’s confidence or offer seniors a sense of heightened engagement or leisure. There are diverse forms of crafting projects that elders can take part in, like collage, painting, knitting, sewing, coloring, pottery, or ceramics in personal care communities.
Chilling Out With Music
Music is a fun, emotionally stimulating activity, enhances your attention, and helps improve your memory or mental alertness. There are various ways to engage in music as a therapeutic mental activity. Learn the lyrics of songs, then sing the pieces aloud. Practice playing a musical instrument, like the guitar or keyboards, then perform concerts with peers. Intonation was discovered to stimulate the mind by calming chaotic thoughts with music. The singing practice may benefit your mental health by providing social, cognitive, or psychological therapy. Music may help to reduce depression, anxiety, or stress. It is also a mature mental exercise.
Socialize With Peers In Our Retirement Community
In our retirement community, we offer the best senior active independent living programs for our residents. Enjoy daily activities, outings around town, arts & crafts workspace, game room, scheduled wellness classes, live entertainment, senior-safe fitness center, an in-house chapel with religious services, a private courtyard & community garden, and many other senior living programs that can make your daily life more meaningful and purposeful or enriching. The retirement community has live musical performances, lecture dialogues, games, and fitness activities to keep you busy. There are opportunities to explore nearby attractions, visit the in-house cinema for film viewing, and watch theatrical performances or sports competitions.Â
Elder Day Care Programs
Elders that cannot independently function at home without supervision remain in need of full-time memory care nursing. Elder day care programs provide nursing care and socializing activities around memory care communities. Socializing can keep your mind alert. Daycare programs conduct mental alertness training exercises.Â
Help With Meal Prep
Loss of appetite remains a common symptom of depression in mature elders that may lead to increased weight loss. Cook basic meals with vitamins or calories, even when they have poor appetites.Â
Extended Care Retirement Communities
Providing clinical treatments for memory care, personal care communities treat dementia patients at different stages of dementia advancement. As the patient requires advanced care, they get moved to wards of memory care communities offering advanced nursing care. The significant advantage of residing in memory care community facilities is that their spouses may live with the elders.
