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Every year, the world celebrates World Osteoporosis Day. We spread awareness of the benefits of healthy bones, educate others by sharing stories, and speak of the causes, prevention, and treatments.

Although the condition can strike at any age, residents in independent living for seniors are more prone to osteoporosis. Living with the condition can be challenging. It is crucial for everyone to maintain healthy bones to help fight Osteoporosis.

On October 20, everyone is encouraged to dedicate time to spreading awareness and knowledge about this silent disease.

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a bone disease, a condition that weakens the person’s bones or when the body fails to produce more bone cells. People with osteoporosis are more prone to breaking their wrists, backbone, and bones in the hip. For someone with Osteoporosis, daily activities can become challenging due to the frailness of their bones.

So, when a person reaches the age of 30, the bone mass stops increasing. It is crucial around this age to keep the bones as healthy as possible as breaks become harder to treat.

Many people suffering from osteoporosis do not feel their bones are breaking down over time. Thus, bone health is crucial regardless of age. And that is when World Osteoporosis Day comes in, to retain healthy bones as people age and prevent bone loss.

World Osteoporosis Day

The number of people with osteoporosis is rising. This bone disease is also increasingly becoming a burden to society, the healthcare community, families, and residents in independent living for seniors.

The annual occasion is a constant reminder for everyone to be proactive in ensuring healthy bones. Regardless of age, it is crucial to improve and maintain the prime health of your bones to remain active and mobile even in your senior years.

World Osteoporosis Day only happens every October 20, but this should not limit everyone’s awareness of the causes of the disease, diagnosis, and treatment. Every day, we all must be reminded of the importance of bone health.

Independent Living For Seniors and Osteoporosis

First, independent living for seniors must employ staff who are trained to understand the disease and the challenges it presents. Staff must also be qualified to care for residents with osteoporosis.

Senior care facilities must also provide services tailored to meet the unique needs of residents with osteoporosis. Facilities must also be osteoporosis-friendly when it comes to medical assistance, food menu, and carefully-planned activities.

Independent living for seniors must strictly follow preventive steps to ensure a clutter-free environment for their residents. Educating residents about the facility layout will keep them aware of the furniture and other things that can cause slip and fall accidents from happening.

Staff must remind and assist residents in taking their medication as prescribed in helping with bone maintenance. Besides, getting residents enough sunshine, the natural source of vitamin D is important to metabolize calcium.

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Today, over 5% of the world’s population is comprised of individuals with hearing disabilities. 430 million people need to address their disabling hearing loss.

The world joins the hearing disability community in celebrating the International Week of The Deaf during the last full week of September (Monday to Sunday.) But in the United States, the celebration is not only celebrated during the last full week of September but the year throughout. During the celebration, a series of events and activities are across the nation.

As the world joins the deaf community together with their initiatives and actionable plans, the assisted living communities also join the disability community during this week.

International Week of The Deaf

The International Week of the Deaf was launched in 1958 in Rome, Italy. The annual event is 64 years old. It also took part in establishing the institution of the International Day of Sign Languages in 2017.

Since its foundation, the International Week of the Deaf has become a worldwide celebration. Different events happen in various deaf communities on an international level.

Leaders and advocates in the deaf community across the globe celebrate and recognize the milestones of deaf people, promote understanding and the rights of deaf people, find ways for deaf people access to education, technologies, and resources, and more.

This year’s theme is “Building Inclusive Communities for All”. This encourages people of the deaf and hearing communities to come together. Connecting to a wider community aids in education and betters communication efforts. It will also help break the stereotype that too often follows the deaf community.

Celebrating in Assisted Living

More than 25% of adults under the age of 60 experience hearing loss. Nearly 50% have some level of hearing loss after the age of 75. Some Assisted living communities have programs tailored particularly for deaf seniors with mild to total hearing loss. Deaf-friendly programs range from the use of adaptive hearing devices and visual stimulation to caregivers that are fluent in ASL.

Assisted living communities with programs and facilities tailored for deaf seniors can help your loved ones feel included and safe.

Ways to Celebrate International Week of the Deaf

During the celebration, senior housing communities can also have their ways to celebrate International Week of the Deaf. Senior facilities can organize interest and lifestyle programs like dancing, painting, gardening, swimming, games, or art shows.

Assisted living facilities support staff training to better care for the deaf and hard of hearing. They can also help by conducting training for seniors who have not learned American Sign Language.

There are a lot of ways to celebrate International Week for the Deaf People in assisted living. Through collective effort, the celebration will be a success in positively affecting deaf people and the community.

 

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National Book Lovers Day is celebrated every 9^th of August. Adults in senior housing can commemorate this special day by enjoying a new book to read.

Reading is not only relaxing but also provides numerous benefits. Reading can be a great activity to keep the mind active. The activity also boosts creativity and emotional well-being.

Book Lovers Day 2022

In honor of the day, adults can indulge in their love for adventure, romance, fantasy, and mystery books.

You can celebrate the special day with your family and friends by:

• Joining a book club for great finds that fit your interests. Or you and your friends could start a book reading club in your senior facility.
• Visit your local library where you may find your new favorite.
• Organize a book party that all book lovers in your senior housing care can participate in. Hold a book trivia contest or costume party where you can encourage friends to dress as their most-loved literary characters.
• Spend time with fellow residents or volunteer as a story reader at your senior housing facility, local school, or daycare.
• Or simply spend the whole day reading. You can do this in your room, outdoor, or in any comfortable place that you can temporarily set up as a book nook.

Books to Read in Senior Housing

Dark Things I Adore

This book by Katie Lattari is a tale of revenge, dark secrets, and ambitions.

The story revolves around Audra, a student at the Boston Institute for the Visual Arts, and Max, her professor, and mentor. Audra invited Max to her remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. Little did Max know; Audra has carefully planned their weekend together and had woven the perfect web for Max to pay for a crime he did 30 years ago.

The Making of Her

The Making of Her is a book about marriage and motherhood that hinder Joan Egan’s quest to find true happiness.

Set in Dublin in 1996, Joan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter she and husband Martin gave up for adoption 30 years ago. Now, battling with guilt over giving up her daughter, Emma must also deal with her marriage issues and simmering issues with another daughter, Carmel.

Will Joan’s strength lead her to finally find happiness?

Complicit

Complicit is the story of Sarah Lai, a former “assistant film producer” who became a college lecturer compelled to tell her own experience while working with British Billionaire Hugo North. But as she recounts the dark and disreputable stories of her experience working with North, she realized that she also has her own dark secrets to confess.

Is Sarah Lai deceitful?

This Story Will Change

An expected announcement of Elizabeth Crane’s husband ended their 15-year marriage. Separated and living with her kid and an old friend, Elizabeth surprisingly realized that the situation brings comfort and healing for wounds much older than her marriage.

 

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Setting up a book club in your senior housing is a great way for the residents to spend time with friends and meet new ones. A reading club is not only a great way to socialize but an opportunity to strengthen brain connection, enhance memory, reduce stress, and age-related prevent cognitive issues.

As the world today is rapidly shifting towards digitalization, reading can instantly bring you to a different world. Reading allows one to temporarily disconnect while getting lost in the characters of the story.

If your senior community does not have a book club yet, then it is high time to launch for the benefit of everyone.

The Benefits of Book Clubs in Senior Housing

Whether you like classic novels or John Grisham, reading provides ample benefits. Reading gives you instant access to what it is like to live in the past, entertains you, or learns about specific subjects.

Regardless of your age and genre of interest, reading is valuable because:

It strengthens the brain

Reading strengthens the brain because it involves understanding to process the words you read. In addition, it stimulates creativity when you create images in your mind. Your analytical ability is also practiced when reading.

Lowers stress

Reading encourages relaxation for the brain is fully engaged in a single task. A 2009 study found that reading lowers the heart rate and eases tensed muscles, qualities that reduce stress levels.

Foster relationship

Book clubs are great ways to reconnect and meet new people who share the same interest. Book clubs in senior housing help fight loneliness and isolation by providing residents a venue to discuss interesting stories or books.

Encourage cultural awareness

Book clubs with diverse reading materials that represent a variety of cultures help us understand and change our perspective toward the differences.

Improve communication skills

Book clubs encourage senior residents to listen and participate in discussions to improve and maintain communications without resorting to personal disagreement.

Book clubs also help senior housing residents to come out of their comfort zone and overcome the fear of expressing opinions, public speaking, and being honest.

How to Get Started

First, you should determine the type of book club you want to launch. Would you like a themed book club like travel, biography, food, or history? Knowing this would help you work out the list of who you would like to invite to be your book club members.

Second, decide the location of your weekly or monthly meet-up. Your senior housing facility may have a library to hold your meetings.

Third, determine how frequently and when you would like to meet. Is it during the daytime or evenings?

Fourth, come up with the book club rules like coming in on time, sharing your thoughts, taking turns in sharing, and such.

Fifth, come up with titles for your reading list. You can commission the help of a local bookstore to locate the books and at the same time ask for recommendations on good reads.

Then start spreading the word among senior housing residents so they can block their schedules for the first meeting. You might want to make DIY flyers to make them more creative and attract potential members.

 

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Oh, the beautiful days of summer when the weather is warm, and the sun is out. If you have a loved one living in one of the assisted living facilities near you, summer is the perfect time for them to sink their teeth into one of these books.

These will not only entertain them throughout this season but also help them work their brains out, so they can slow down the process of Alzheimer’s:

The best summer reading list

The Last Resort by Sara Stodola.

• What better way to enjoy the longer days of summer than a book that explores beach resort culture? The author talks about how people are drawn to the beach and the good and bad that come with being on it.

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

• This book seeks to tickle the imagination by telling the story of two people who were part of a war in their own ways. Tied together by their circumstances, their love will be tested by a new war that will seek to keep them apart.

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty.

• Telling twelve stories surrounding families in a Native community, this book seeks to understand the benefits and consequences of inheritance, and what it’s like to survive after a tragedy.

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager.

• Another riveting thriller by a New York Times best-selling author, this book revolves around Casey Fletcher, a widowed actress. She retreated to her family’s lake house in Vermont in pursuit of peace and escape from bad press. But her stay will have different twists and turns that will surely keep anyone on the edge of their seats.

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.

• This debut novel focuses on two siblings who always had differences but most now come together after the death of their mother. As they explore their inheritance, they also discover the secrets, memories, and betrayals from their mother’s hidden past.

The Benefits of Reading During the Summer

Summer days are longer than other seasons, so residents in assisted living facilities may get bored over time. But with reading, they can easily spend an entire day digging into one of these books and not mind the time at all.

Reading also helps with memory retention, which helps slow down the brain deterioration caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Instead of doing activities that might harm these senior residents, reading will keep them entertained for a long time without any risks to their health or safety.

So, if you have a loved one living in an assisted living facility, surprise him or her with a stack of books for a summer full of good reads, great memories, and relaxing times.

Reading is one of the best ways to spend the long days of summer instead of going out, watching television, or just doing nothing. Grab one or more of these books for your loved one in one of the assisted living facilities today.

 

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