Healthy Vision

Healthy Vision

by | Feb 20, 2024 | Aging Well Tips, Healthy Tips and Aging Nuggets

Healthy Vision requires deliberate actions to keep your eyes protected. Even if your eyes feel healthy, you could have a problem and not know it. That is because many eye diseases don’t have any symptoms or warning signs.

Do you know that age increases your risk of an eye disease especially when you;
a. Are overweight or obese
b. Have a family history of eye-related conditions.
c. Are of African American descent.
d. Have health conditions such as diabetes and poorly controlled blood pressure.

Making healthy choices with your health early enough is the most important way to maintain healthy vision even with ageing. Bearing in mind that what you eat reflex on your overall health and can lower your risk of diseases and eye or vision problem.

Follow these tips for healthy vision:

1. Eat healthy.
Let your food be your best medicine. Enjoy food in each season. Leverage on enjoying your indigenously grown dark, leafy greens like spinach, pumpkin leaf, Garden egg leaf, kale, and water leaf. Protein like fish that are high in omega-3 fatty acids is good for your eyes, too.

2 . Protect your eyes
Be conscious daily by taking simple steps to protect your eyes from harm. As simple as wearing sunglasses that protect your eyes from UVA and UVB radiation, Reduce screen time by applicating the 20 -20 -20 break to rest the eyes (20 minutes to look at something above 20 feet and look away for 20 seconds), regular hand washing ETC.

3. Visit your Eyes Doctor regularly.
A regular visit to an optometrist or ophthalmologist for an eye examination to detect and prevent the eyes problem. This is a culture to develop. The duty of the Ophthalmologists and optometrists recommend a comprehensive eye examination at least once every year.

Learn more about healthy vision by attending and participating in the February Town Hall sessions programs where Dr. Adure Ezeogu Edemeraro will be discussing VISION CARE FOR SENIORS.
 
Dates:  Saturday, 24th February,2024
Time: 9 AM
Venue: Google Meet
Register to attend for free 👉https://forms.gle/muCw2nXxCtQZfKg38

To your well-being

Morayo Eboh

Stay Connected: Prevent Loneliness and Social Isolation

Stay Connected: Prevent Loneliness and Social Isolation

by | Feb 15, 2024 | Aging Well Tips

We all need to connect and socialize to survive and thrive. Loneliness and social isolation have a negative effect on one’s mental well-being especially the Older Adults who live alone.

Let me ask you these questions:
1. Do you have ageing parents or Loved ones who live alone?
2. How often do you call or visit them?

Loneliness is a distressing feeling of being alone and separated while social isolation is staying away from people.

Every older adult deserves a company that will encourage meaningful and productive activities. Either a formal or informal care worker to interact with regularly.

Here are three (3) ways to stay connected with our services at Rehoboth Center for Elderly Care:

1.   Participate in RCEC monthly Town Hall sessions programs where healthy lifestyle education and activities that foster a sense of well-being and belonging are shared. To participate this February, register to attend “VISION CARE FOR SENIORS with Dr Adure Ezeogu Edemeraro”.

Click the link below to register:
https://forms.gle/muCw2nXxCtQZfKg38

2 .  Enjoy our Friendly Call Wednesday service where our trained volunteers call to follow up on the older adults. The service is available to anyone who feels alone and wants to have friendly conversations with a compassionate and caring RCEC Team member.

To schedule a call for yourself or your older adults:
Call / WhatsApp +234 7013409154

3.   Engage the RCEC Care Caller Team to bring friendship and companionship to your older adults. This service is suitable for those who have little social contact or who would like to make a new friend. 

This service is confidential and a paid service. Currently operates only in Abuja, Lagos and Jos alone.

PLEASE NOTE:
All our care team and volunteer members are properly vetted, references checked and given in-house training. So, safety is guaranteed. They are matched with Elders based on mutual interests, personalities and location. The Care Caller Team and the elders are supported by coordinators.

To schedule this service call/ WhatsApp +234 7013409154

Stay Connected Prevent Loneliness.
To your well-being

Morayo Eboh
(Nurse Mo)

Improving The Quality of Life for Older Adults

Improving The Quality of Life for Older Adults

by | Feb 6, 2024 | Aging Well Tips

As our older adults advance in age, they begin to feel worried or feel like a burden to their loved ones. We on the other side have a responsibility as their family to help them combat this feeling knowing that aging is a process that everyone must go through. To work on this feeling, we must help them improve their quality of life.

First, we need to understand what it means to help an older adult improve his/her quality of life. Which can mean different things to different elders per time. While this might look difficult to figure out we can look at communicating with them more, listen and create meaningful memories for them.

On a wider spectrum, we can focus on improving the physical, social, and mental well-being as a way to support their ageing journey.

Let’s see how:

1. Introduce physical activity to achieve a good quality of life.
Being physically active is the foundation for general wellness so having an elder participate in daily activity reduces the risk for the onset of diseases.

Exercise are proven way to improve quality of life by preventing stroke, heart disease, boost immunity, relieve anxiety, improve sleep and also lower blood pressure. So, every older adult should participate in approximately 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity per week, with each session lasting about 10 minutes.

2. Encourage social interactions to increase a sense of satisfaction & meaning

Social activities and interaction are ways to combat isolation. It is important for overall wellness and decreases the feeling of being depressed. Many studies have shown that constant social interactions bring about significant improvements in physical, mental, and emotional health outcomes

So, it is important that Older Adults are to engage in social activities, join communities of like minded seniors like Rehoboth Center For Elderly Care (RCEC), be involved in spiritual activities that gives a sense of satisfaction, enjoy company of family and friends. Visit places of memories. Most importantly go out to decrease that feeling of being isolated

Every day is an opportunity to socialize

3. Active Stimulation of mental wellness Improves quality of life.
Engaging in activities that stimulate the mental wellness of an older adult helps with preventing or slowing the process of conditions like Alzheimer and other forms of dementia. Because as human beings that experience the process of aging we must continue to stimulate our mental abilities and never remain stagnant. Learning must continue even with aging. Activities such as the following can stimulate continuous learning; games, puzzles, painting, reading, dancing and lots more.

Painting session with older adults of RCEC at the Town Hall session (social interactions outing edition) to keep the mind stimulated.

Support one older adult near you today to improve in his/her quality of life by sharing this information.

To your well-being

Morayo Eboh
Founder, Rehoboth Centre for Elderly Care

 

For more information on how to support and participate in our activities;
Please Call:+234 701 340 9154
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Coping with stress as Family caregiver: 5 Tips for taking care of yourself

Coping with stress as Family caregiver: 5 Tips for taking care of yourself

by | Jan 30, 2024 | Caregiver

Caring for a loved one can put a lot of strain on you even if you are the most resilient person. If you’re a family caregiver, take out time to preserve your own health and well-being.

A family caregiver is anyone who helps or supports a member of his/her family in need of care. A person in need might be an ill spouse or partner, a child with a disability, or an aging parent or relative.

Most family caregivers experience high levels of stress than those people who are not caregivers. It is important for family caregivers to know that they too need support.

Family Caregiving is rewarding for those caring for a loved one. It can make your relationship stronger. But however, it comes with stress particularly when the caregiver lacks knowledge on how to go about day-to-day care routine which leads to a feeling of anger, frustration, worn out or being sad and alone. If not attended to It can put the family caregivers at risk of changes of life, health and even location.

Examples of Factors that can increase stress with a family caregiver include:

  • Caring for a spouse.
  • Living with the person who needs care.
  • Caring for someone who needs constant attention
  • Feeling helpless or depressed.
  • Financial problem.
  • Spending many hours caregiving.
  • Having too little knowledge on how to care for your loved ones.
  • Having no choice about being a caregiver.
  • Not having good coping or problem-solving skills.
  • Feeling the need to give care at all times.
  • Not having professional advice.

SIGNS OF CAREGIVER STRESS
As a family caregiver, you may be so focused on your loved one that you don’t see how caregiving affects your own health and well-being. Here are signs of caregiver stress for you to take note:

  • Feeling burdened or worrying always
  • Feeling tired always.
  • Sleeping too much or not enough.
  • Gaining or losing weight.
  • Becoming easily angry.
  • Lack of interest in activities you are used to doing.
  • Feeling sad.
  • Having frequent headaches or other pain.
  • Misusing medications
  • Not attending your own medical appointments.

Too much stress over time can lead to health problems for you, such as heart disease and diabetes.

5 TIPS TO MANAGE FAMILY CAREGIVER STRESS
Your emotional and physical health matters as family caregivers so make sure to take care of you first. If you don’t take care of yourself, you won’t be able to give quality care to anyone else.

  1. Ask for and accept help:  Asking for help is very ok. Write a list of ways in which others can help you. Don’t work alone. Ideas like light home cleaning, cooking meals, going for doctor’s appointments, and taking your loved ones on a walk.
  2. Set goals you can reach:  Break large tasks into smaller steps that you can do one at a time. Make lists of what’s most important. Follow a daily routine. Say no to requests that are draining, such as hosting guests or cooking for large families during occasions
  3. Focus on the area you can handle:  Sometimes, you may feel like you’re not doing enough. But no one is perfect.  We are all a work in progress Believe that you’re doing the best you can.
  4. Take care of your health:  Seek ways to sleep better. Move more on during the day. Eat healthy, and drink plenty of water. A good sleep is important for the health. If you are having trouble getting a good sleep, talk to your health care professional
  5. Join a support group: Joining support group helps you feel better. People in the group know what you’re going through. They can cheer you on and help you solve problems. There also you will make new friends. Most importantly, connect with other family members

See your health care professional or Talk about your worries with a therapist.

To your well-being

Morayo Eboh
Founder, Rehoboth Centre for Elderly Care (RCEC)

BE MORE FLEXIBLE AND MOBILE IN 2023

BE MORE FLEXIBLE AND MOBILE IN 2023

by | Jan 9, 2023 | Aging Well Tips

Begin with 30 minutes healthy lifestyle routine daily!

As we age, we begin to realize we’re not as strong and flexible as we used to be. Then, we wonder: what’s the best and safest way to get back in shape or improve our overall health?

How can we achieve a more flexible movement?

Here is the best way to:

  • Through a healthy and fitness daily routine.
  • Dancing or walking for 30 minutes every day.
  • Starting slow and easy.
  • Improve your pace as you stabilize.
  • Hydrate (Drink water).

Note that the results of this routine are best achieved through daily discipline.

Don’t be sedentary! Take a bold step out of your comfort zone daily.

Be more flexible!
Be in better health!

Cheers to a healthy 2023.

 

Nurse Morayo
CEO, Rehoboth Center for Elderly Care

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