What defines a retirement community as truly active?
What amenities, activities and events will inspire its inhabitants to get on their feet and get moving?
Being active is one of the essentials for living a happy, healthy life in a retirement home.
If you are looking at potential locations for your elderly loved ones, you’ll want to cross check the communities that turn up during your research with the information provided in this article.
Your research starts here.
Advantage #1: Exercise
A good, active retirement community will feature lots of weekly scheduled activities that involve the much-needed movement to keep the elderly in great shape.
Some of these activities can include line dance classes and beanbag baseball to name a couple.
The old adage of ‘use it or lose it’ most definitely applies here, so be sure to speak with the staff or management team about the weekly activities happening at any retirement home you are considering sending your loved ones to.
Advantage #2: Social Events
Having weekly scheduled social events is just as important as the exercising aspect of retirement living. Why?
Imagine an empty world without friends, family or… anyone. Anything you accomplish, create or experience would go unheard of and life would be very lonely.
Needless to say, human beings need social interaction with other human beings.
It is what makes us feel alive; sharing laughs and engaging in stimulating conversations with old and new friends.
When your elderly loved ones have a platform to meet new people and form new connections, it will really spice up their lives and will help them to get the most out of their retirement community living.
Some of the activities you can find on an active retirement home’s weekly schedule include:
Special holiday dinners
Poker, bingo and other game nights
Multiple classes that teach a wide range of new skills
Choir
Arts and craft shows
Other live entertainment events
…and this is just a tip of the iceberg!
Be sure to always have a look at a retirement home’s month-long list of social events to gauge their level of activity before moving forward with registration.
Advantage #3: Delicious, Home-Cooked Meals in Retirement Home
One of the best advantages of an active retirement community is that you will often find a professional chef cooking three healthy, delicious meals per day.
There is no mistaking how important food and diet is when maintaining a healthy immune system. But this can be taken a step further with food that tastes good, providing positive feelings of taste bud satisfaction.
There is nothing worse than monotony when it comes to food.
Making sure the retirement community’s kitchen will keep its inhabitants guessing (and always excited to dig in) will ensure that your mum, dad or other loved one(s) will enjoy their elder years to the fullest.
When you combine all three advantages we’re covered in this article, you will have found yourself the ultimate retirement living facility. Happy hunting!
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