For something we do almost every night for our entire lives, sleep can be more elusive than we might expect. Especially in older age, the restorative effects of sleep are critical in maintaining energy levels through the day and avoiding stress.
Elton House’s Cheslyn residents enjoyed baking with Danine and Alison from CookCamp (www.cookcamp.co.uk). The cookies were thoroughly enjoyed by all later with a cup of tea!
Our society offers numerous ways that people who are growing old can be looked after. Naturally, the idea behind it is to serve each individual’s personal needs and requirements and put the minds of families at ease.
The ability to care for older or vulnerable people and to ensure a good quality of life for most people at all ages is a defining aspect of humanity. Many of us who provide care take great joy in doing so; there’s a feeling of value in being immediately helpful that appeals to many people.
Perhaps more than any other, the medical professions can be full of jargon that may be difficult to understand. For any fans of Countdown out there, they often discuss strange words and phrases that seem to be ‘doctors only’ terms!
Human minds are not built to work in isolation, but specialised over millions of years to function as connected nodes in a network of humanity.
Our media is crammed with advice on why exercise is good for people. In the news, many diseases and conditions can be, at least in part, attributed to lack of exercise and its connection with diet.
Meditation is potentially beneficial to everyone, but can be especially useful to older individuals for a number of reasons, ranging from the tendency toward a decreasing attention span to the superior patience which seniors tend to have.
There’s a very good reason why the phrase “wellbeing” is so open-ended. It’s because it’s all relative, really. One person’s requirements and needs for a fulfilling lifestyle are not the same as the next person’s.
We are often told, in the context of a country or even a city, that we have an ageing population. Setting aside the fact that this is technically true of every population (nobody’s ever got younger with the passage of time, after all!), a more accurate description would be that we have an ageing species.