Improving The Quality of Life for Older Adults

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

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