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Physical and mental activity is of paramount importance to preventing frailty in seniors, although many find staying active is a major challenge. Frailty, a condition that can lead to a loss of independence and the beginning of a downward spiral, can be prevented or even reversed by increased activity. Through activity, seniors build both physical and mental reserves. The key is finding activities that older adults enjoy.

Family caregivers assisting seniors are in a unique position to help them figure out what activities will work best.  The website www.getmommoving.com provides a great resource of activity ideas designed to bolster a senior's mind, body and soul. Some of the activities include word puzzles, simple exercises, or hobby-related things to do.

 You can also visit http://homeinstead.com/627/mediaroom/Fear%20of%20Frailty.aspx for more information about frailty, how to identify it, and how activity can help.

 

yes absolutely true as Frailty at latter stage cause demoralization and loss of self esteem and that leads to dementia or Alzheimer's, as you can see these days the ration of Dementia disease is increasing gradually, so keeping the body active and improved blood circulation and mental exercises can reduces the chances of Dementia/Alzheimer disease.

Senior care agencies providing non-medical assistance can help older people as they provide services at home, that has an advantage as in hospital elder people have chances of loosing interest in life and self esteem, and everyone wants to live with their loved once and home carers help them grow self esteem and social interaction.

 Hi Friends,

Frailty is a the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age). Seniors feel physical or moral weakness so they need special care at home so that they can improve their health fast because they don't want to go to nursing home at this stage of their life. As in the above post; word puzzles, hobby related things are best in practice to give them moral support so that they don't feel that they are alone and helpless.But this can be given by a specialist home care givers.

I couldn't agree more. Here's a blog post I wrote about how important it is for seniors to socialize. For seniors, socializing is just as important as diet and exercise when it comes to living a long and happy life.

That's a great point -- a wholistic approach to keeping seniors active in mind, body AND spirit is truly the key to helping them live a long and happy life. Loved your blog post about the importance of socializing for seniors. We recently blogged about a similar topic - a study revealed how seniors living in a sociable neighborhood faired much better than isolated seniors. You can read more here: http://seniorhomecareadvisor.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html

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The inghts presented in this thread are great...very informative.  I also came accross this website  http://caring-for-elderly-parent.com/  that gives very useful information on caring of elderly people. The site has this free series on Strategies for Happier Aging where among the series was on hobbies and exercises for seniors.   

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There are signs that an elderly needs to move to nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other senior care homes. Some of the signs are depression, loss of memory, they can't keep their house clean anymore, they find it hard to carry out their household chores and they tend to forget to take their medicines and go to their doctor's appointment. You should be very observant and if you see any of these signs then it's already time to talk to your mom and make her understand that she needs to move to a facility for her own good.

I'll second you on that. Physical and mental activities even just the light ones can have a big effect on the holistic health of our elders. Coming up with creative and fun activities for them can make them have a good time while working out their bodies and brains. You can ask mom to use Nintendo Wii. I've read that some elders use it for workout and they enjoy it

 Mental illness is always bigger than that of physical one. Keeping the elders happy and without any stress will surely counts a lot in maintaining their health properly. 70% of the diseases can be cured if the will and desire of the patient is strong, else there will be no effect of the medicines even.

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