7 Ways to Keep Your Senior Physically & Mentally Active This Winter

This Winter, you might be looking for ways to ensure that your parent or loved one who gets their senior care at home can stay both physically and mentally active. We have come up with a list of things to try so that your senior can avoid feeling lonely, isolated, or bored this season and get some activity in, too!

1. Join a gym

Senior Care Philadelphia, PA: Keeping Your Senior Active

Consider encouraging your senior to join a local gym this Winter season so that they can get out in the community and stay physically active as well. Many gyms have both manual equipment as well as group classes so that they can build strength and also stay socially active. Have them try out different kinds of classes or equipment until they find what they enjoy.

2. Spend time with peers

For some elderly people receiving senior care at home, it can be easy to begin feeling isolated, especially during colder months when we are more likely to want to stay indoors and hibernate where we are warm, cozy, and comfortable. Set up a group meeting with your senior’s friends to have tea, look at old pictures, see a movie, or go shopping together.

3. Play puzzles and games

In order to keep the mind working this Winter, encourage your senior parent or loved one to incorporate games and puzzles into their senior care routine at home. In fact, studies have actually shown that people who do jigsaw or crossword puzzles have a lower chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss, and dementia, and have a longer life span!

4. Dance

Dancing is not only a good way to get the body moving, but it’s fun, too. Dancing uses the whole body and brain and is something that many seniors enjoy taking part in. There’s many different types of dance so ask your senior what they would like to try!

5. Try yoga

Yoga is something that people of all ages and body types can participate in, and may help with flexibility and relaxation as well as encourage your senior to get a little social as they try something new and possibly outside of their comfort zone this Winter.

6. Volunteer

Another way to stay active with your senior this season is to volunteer with them. There are many ways that charities and organizations need help, and doing something good for people less fortunate may motivate your senior to get out in their community more than they would normally choose to do.

7. Try something new

Mix it up and have your senior try something totally new, like a class or a book or a hobby they have never tried. Senior care can become mundane when seniors stay home doing the same thing day after day, so get out of the house and find something they might love that they never considered before.

If you or an aging loved one are considering Senior Care in Philadelphia, PA please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.

Source:

https://www.news-journal.com/charm-view/surprising-benefits-of-doing-jigsaw-puzzles/article_e732acb6-a62e-11e8-83df-8f163e776203.html

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Perry C. Doc Alleva, Owner & Administrator

Owner & Administrator at True Direct Home Health Care

True Direct HHC owner and administrator, Perry C. Doc Alleva has been in the health care community for over 10 years as a therapy solutions provider, as well as a home care services coordinator. He has extensive experience in caring for the disabled and the surgical acute, sub-acute, and rehab population. Rooted in his home-town city of Philadelphia, with strong ties to it's vast neighborhoods and communities, he's now focusing all his energies towards innovating the home health care agency's role in providing the essential care needed from individual to the family throughout the community.

Doc, as he is called by everyone - staff, patients and clients - first experienced home health care and hospice care while as a colleg student at King's College as he cared for his mother every day while she first battled COPD and then lung cancer. It was during this time that he came to understand that caring for a patient was more than just clinical expertise.

"Admittedly, my strongest attribute is my communication skills and the simple fact that I love to help people. Even the smallest thing you can do for someone really can mean so much to them long term. In fact, it could change them forever. That's what providing quality personal home health care should be all about."

In his spare time, he cooks for homeless shelters and children's music and arts events. He also is highly involved in his local youth sports soccer academy as a coach and Board member.

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