As people age, staying socially engaged can sometimes be challenging, but it also becomes increasingly important for mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
Tag Archives | Senior Emotions
Stress Free Senior Move
Planning, organizing, downsizing, packing, unpacking…moving is hard work…it’s exhausting! Not only is it hard work, but it can also be very stressful. Although it’s stressful for everyone, it seems to be even more so for seniors. How can that be avoided?
Empower The Elderly
As many people age, they develop feelings and thoughts of being useless, abandoned and rejected. Sometimes there is no reason for these feelings, but oftentimes the people around them inadvertently say or do things that cause these thoughts.
Eliminate Stress Senior Move
Whether you’re moving into a college dorm, your dream house or into a senior community, moving, just by its nature, is stressful…but it doesn’t have to be…
Senior Move Mistakes
Is there a move to a senior community in your future or the future of a loved one who you will be helping during this “big event”? There can be a lot of anxiety associated with a rightsizing move, but much of it can be avoided it…
Senior Living Friends
So many seniors move into senior living communities each year…is this your year? Maybe you have already made the move…are you happy? If you’re not, these tips will certainly help your become so…
Activities For People With Dementia
None of us want to just sit and stare all the time, that why it’s important for seniors with dementia to have activities throughout the day that they can enjoy, be kept busy with and feel successful with, just like you and I do. What does your senior do all day?
Senior Fitness
Sure, it’s inevitable that as we age, we have a tendency to slow down a bit, our bodies are getting older, but that doesn’t mean we should stop using them, a sedentary lifestyle is not a healthy or fulfilling lifestyle…
Pets In Senior Communities
For a senior being asked to move into a senior community, it’s a difficult to impossible thing. But what happens if they have a cat or dog that they love and can’t live without…can they take it with them?
Dementia Behavior Strategies
Dementia can leave a person afraid, angry, paranoid, confused and sad, and can cause them to become aggressive or even violent…how do you deal with challenging situations like that?