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Aging comes with various virtues and falls. This is the age when senior citizens need utmost care and kindness to feel alive. Their mental and physical health needs to be checked now and then for their quality of life. Engaging in recreational activities helps them be socially active, track their fitness, and keep their mental health in check. At Sahabhaav, they understand the importance of a good environment with social and physical activities that help to build a better and happier life for senior citizens.
Most people want to keep their elders happy and loved, yet they don’t know how to help them throughout their journey. Whether living independently or in assisted living homes, here are the top activities for seniors that will help them stay engaged and happy.
Yoga and meditation are powerful activities that help promote mental health and add support to emotional well-being. Engaging in these types of activities will enhance the quality of life and will help socialize within the community, increasing mobility, reducing stress. Gentle yoga sessions can help them relieve stress from many medications, reducing anxiety with improved sleep schedule and a greater sense of peace.
At Sahabhaav, they offer gentle yoga sessions and meditation sessions by professionals specifically designed for seniors, which help ensure safety and effectiveness. Their experienced instructors will guide the participating seniors through gentle movements and practices according to their health conditions. This will improve their mental health and keep them flexible, and give them a purpose. Sahabhaav conducts chair yoga for its’ residents thrice a week, which incorporates movements of limbs, lifting light weights like filled water bottles, catching a ball to enhance hand-eye coordination, kicking a ball to one another in a circle for leg exercises, AUM chanting, laughter therapy, sound therapy and much more, challenging their bodies and minds to do more than they usually can!
Engaging in activities like painting, pottery, stitching, or knitting allows seniors to express their emotions and keeps them engaged. These activities are therapeutic and create a sense of purpose in their life. They help them regulate their emotions and keep their mental state happy and calm.
At Sahabhaav, they encourage various activities for senior citizens that help them regulate their emotions and keep them calm. Some of the most loved activities are creating name plates, pouring paints over surfaces to make coasters or art décor, decorating bottles with thin ropes (sutli) for making vases, making inspirational posters for their own rooms and much more. When one pours their focus on an art piece, it becomes meditation!
Music has a special connection with our mind and soul. Bringing back memories, lifting our mood, and helping people feel connected is the purpose of musical nights. Listening to music or joining musical activities can improve their mental health and let them enjoy their days with laughter.
At Sahabhaav, they believe in serving the senior citizen with the ability to improve their life and lead a happy life. They provide TV for listening to music, watching other shows, or anything of their liking. Other activities also involve singing Sa Re Ga Ma Pa together in a group loudly, jamming with drums like the djembe, live kirtan sessions, live meditation sessions with Ram chanting and many more gigs held indoors like karaoke sessions.
Spending time in nature is the best way for good health, especially for seniors. It helps reduce stress, improves mood, and keeps the mind sharp. One of the best ways to connect with nature is morning or evening walks in the garden or parks.
At Sahabhaav, the residents are taken on planned outdoor trips, depending on the weather, to spend evenings amongst nature. Parks with green grass and tall trees become a great way for them to connect with nature and look at the expanse of the sky. They are taken on wheelchairs so that there is minimal risk of falling. They loved the gardens with little water streams and ducks, or to the sea side promenades where they can view the ocean expanse.
Doing activities that make the brain work is very important for seniors. Games like puzzles, chess, and memory games help keep the mind active and strong. These types of games can slow down memory loss that sometimes comes with age.
At Sahabhaav, they have many fun and challenging brain games that are perfect for all kinds of interests and skill levels. Brain gym games involve memory games, contradictory actions with hands and fingers (lifting 3 fingers of one hand and 2 of the other hand simultaneously and reversing the same), saying numbers backwards, remembering a number of dance steps after they are taught one after the other etc. These games, are in fact good for any age group in today’s digital world, but mostly enjoyed by senior citizens.
Spending time with others is very important for seniors. As people get older, they might feel lonely or miss being around friends and family. Social gatherings help seniors stay connected, feel happier, and enjoy life more.
At Sahabhaav, they understand how important it is for seniors to have fun and meaningful social and meaningful human interactions. That’s why the meals are had together and they plan regular events where everyone can come together, talk, laugh, and celebrate.
Doing volunteer work or spending time with younger people helps seniors feel useful and happy. It gives them a sense of purpose and helps them stay active in the community. These activities are also a great way for seniors to share their life experiences, skills, and wisdom with others.
At Sahabhaav, they encourage volunteer work, have internship programs with students who need to do community based work and social activities with the neighbourhood for a better quality of life.
Recreational activities are very important for seniors. They help improve health, keep the mind active, and bring happiness. When seniors take part in fun and meaningful activities, they feel more energetic, positive, and connected to the world around them.
At Sahabhaav, we truly care about the well-being of our senior residents. That’s why we offer many different types of activities that match their interests, needs, and abilities. Whether it’s yoga, gardening, music, brain games, or community events, every activity is designed to make life more joyful and meaningful.
Recreational Activities help seniors improve their life, physical health, mood, and reduce loneliness.
They offer many fun activities, social gatherings, TV shows, stretching, and many other activities that help them keep engaging and happy.
It all depends on their medical condition, and it is advisable to take instructions from the doctors.