Life Enrichment and Why the Hype?
What is life enrichment?
Enrichment is a journey of adding meaning, improving the quality of, and enhancing experiences. Life Enrichment is finding purpose and pursuing meaningful interests that bring pleasure and enhancing one’s life with opportunities and experiences.
Why is life enrichment important as we age?
As a person ages, changes may occur to their body and mind that challenges their typical day to day activities. A person may become less productive, experience a loss of independence, and have an increased inability to participate in daily activities. These changes may seem frightening, but there are many ways to go through the aging process while still enjoying a functional, joyful, and fulfilling life. Embracing these changes can be difficult, but with continuing participation in activities that are rewarding, can provide you enjoyment through your ‘Golden years’.
Staying Active
You know the phrase, “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it”? This is very true on many levels. It is essential to healthy aging to keep an active lifestyle. Staying active can help seniors promote prolonged independence, manage chronic medical conditions, and maintain healthy muscles, bones, and joints.
Preserving Cognitive Health
As a person ages, they are at higher risk for cognitive impairments including neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The good news is keeping the mind active can help ward off cognitive decline and improve memory and reasoning abilities. Keeping your brain fit promotes an overall sense of achievement, and even improves overall brain health.
Fostering Social Connections
There is a myriad of benefits to having strong relationships throughout your life. Having healthy connections with others can reduce stress and anxiety, lower the risk of depression, promote a sense of belonging, increase self-esteem, and promote a longer and healthier life.
Life Enrichment at the ProHealth Regency
ProHealth Regency Senior Communities offer a diverse range of quality programming aimed at promoting and supporting an enriching way of life for our seniors. We take great care in carefully crafting activities that are tailored to residents’ unique personal needs and abilities.
Our goal is to serve all Regency residents and to help them to be engaged and active in the community, to utilize and nurture their skills and abilities to enhance and expand their daily lives and achieve their highest potential. We offer meaningful Life Enrichment programming focusing on physical fitness, cognitive enrichment, creativity, social engagement, spirituality, emotional well-being, and lifelong learning. Whether our seniors are attending a social, special event, outing into the community, fitness class, or other rewarding activities, these programs will help to reduce stress and improve self-esteem and self-awareness, and promote rewarding opportunities of enjoyment.
We invite you to schedule a tour at our Brookfield, Muskego, or New Berlin Regency Communities so you can learn more about how our programming brings meaningful enrichment to the lives our seniors. Contact us today to learn more.