Proper nutrition is way more important to your senior’s daily happiness and health than even she might realize. Senior supportive living communities offer a chance for your elderly family member to have access to healthy meals and snacks all day long, which can make a big difference to her overall quality of life.
Healthier Body
When your senior isn’t eating as well as she should, her whole body suffers for it. She might be dealing with inflammation, touchier health issues, and just generally feeling lousy. By eating healthier meals more regularly in a senior supportive living environment, your senior has a chance to improve her overall health. She’s more likely to sleep better and just feel better and healthier overall.
Stronger Immune System
Your senior’s immune system works hard to keep her as healthy as possible. But it takes a lot to battle all of the various germs, bacteria, and viruses that float around every day. When your elderly family member isn’t eating a healthy diet, her body and her immune system struggle to keep up with those microscopic invaders. Your senior may find that she’s sick more often or that her existing health issues are more difficult to manage than they should be.
Stronger Memory
There’s a lot more involved in improving memory than just eating a healthy diet, but the right foods do offer a solid base to work from. If your elderly family member is eating a diet that is high in empty calories, then her brain can literally starve from lack of nutrition. Ensuring that she’s getting the nutrition that she needs can help your senior’s other efforts at keeping her memory strong to be more successful.
Better Moods
Getting the right balance of nutrients by eating healthy meals in her retirement community can help to keep your senior’s moods in balance. That’s because the different chemicals that the brain and body produce which help with mood regulation require nutrients from the foods your senior eats. If she doesn’t have those nutrients, those neurotransmitters and other chemicals aren’t able to do their jobs.
Better Energy Levels
Another big benefit is that your elderly family member is more likely to have the energy that she needs and wants to live the lifestyle that she wants to live. In her senior supportive living community, there are tons of activities and adventures for her to try. Eating a healthier diet and not having to worry about cooking or cleaning up allows her to have increased energy that she can spend in ways that are more enjoyable for her.
When normal daily activities, like cooking, become more difficult for your senior, then a senior living community can be the right answer for her. Your elderly family member doesn’t have to worry about keeping up with home maintenance or any of the other exhausting activities that can take away her energy and her time. She can simply enjoy her home and the amenities that she can find in her new community.
If you or an aging loved-one are considering a move to Senior Supportive Living in Swansea, IL or surrounding areas please contact the caring staff at Knollwood Retirement Community today. 618-394-0569
Offering seniors age 65 and older a wealth of amenities to retain as much independence as they are able, with support, in a home-like environment in our supportive living community.
