Exercise is notorious for helping with physical health issues, but it can also help with emotional concerns.

For instance, regular exercise can be a tremendous mood booster, which is very helpful if your senior is experiencing depression, stress, or anxiety. It helps if your senior enjoys the exercise that she’s trying because that helps her to stick with it so she can get maximum benefits.

Dancing

Dancing, especially to her favorite music, is a fantastic way for your senior to get up and moving. The music matters more than how your elderly family member moves. Moving her body is the goal, but the music does a lot to help to boost her mood. Having a “daily dance party” with your senior can get your blood flowing and help you both to feel more energized. You can do this at a set time or you might want to try randomly throwing short dance parties several times a day.

Walking

Walking is easy for just about anyone to get started with on a regular basis. It only requires that your senior has comfortable footwear that fits her well. Walking gets your senior’s heart pumping and that is part of what helps to boost her mood. Her brain starts to pump endorphins and other chemicals into her bloodstream that improve her mood even more.

Gardening

When someone takes up gardening, there’s a good bit of physical labor involved. But there’s more to it. There’s also the knowledge that your senior has built something and that she’s nurtured it, literally from seeds sometimes, into a plant that produces food or that’s gorgeous and well cared for. Gardening can be a way for your elderly family member to tap into things that are beyond whatever she’s dealing with personally.

Yoga

Yoga is an excellent exercise for your senior to start doing if she needs to stretch more and wants to improve her balance. But like gardening, there’s more to it than that. Yoga also involves breathing exercises that can be incredibly helpful for relieving stress and anxiety. The stretches can also help your elderly family member to boost her mood.

Always talk to your senior’s doctor before she starts a new type of physical activity, just to make sure that it’s safe for her to do so. It can also be a good idea for your senior to have a caregiver nearby when she’s exercising or doing anything strenuous, just in case she needs assistance.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Home Care in Redwood City, CA, call the caring staff at Aviva In-Home Care.
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As a former hospital administrator, I launched Aviva with the goal of having a more focused, direct impact on the delivery of care than I could ever accomplish within a hospital setting. For me, the joy of running an organization like Aviva In-Home Care is having the ability to positively improve the lives of individuals needing customized care. As a passionate Bay Area resident, I know that many local seniors can benefit from new approaches to in-home care, that will bring them more connection to the community, and provide families with a greater sense of comfort that their loved one is indeed matched with an ideal caregiver.

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