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New Year’s Resolutions for Seniors

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Making a New Year’s resolution to eat better, exercise, watch your weight, and see your healthcare provider regularly, can help you get healthier and feel better for many more years to come. Here are our top New Year’s resolutions for seniors.

Eat healthier
When it comes to eating, make sure you have plenty of veggies on your plate. Choose foods with deep colors like spinach, oranges, and carrots. Start a fiber-rich diet and switch fatty meats with heart-healthy fish like tuna or salmon.

Stay active
Physical activity can always be helpful despite any constraining situations like heart disease, diabetes, or arthritis. In fact, physical activity is known to improve all of these conditions. Exercises like water aerobics, walking and stretching can help improve your bones and balance.

See your provider regularly
Schedule an annual appointment with your doctor to discuss health screenings that can check your vision, hearing, and other conditions such as cancers or osteoporosis. After each visit talk about medications you’re taking and whether you still need to take them.

You may feel like you hear these same resolutions every year, but it’s only because these are the easiest to slip away from us! People can quickly fall into bad habits, getting on the right track can make all the differences. We are located in the Tucker, Georgia near Atlanta to find out how our community of care is working together with your loved one to meet these New Year’s resolutions through assisted living and memory care, contact us here or call 770-938-5600.

Brain Exercise in the Winter

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Taking part in an activity that is fun and thought provoking can improve a senior’s quality of life. Many studies support the connection between lifestyle and dementia risk- finding that following a brain-healthy lifestyle and performing regular brain exercises can also increase a brain’s cognitive resources.

In the colder days of winter getting some good mental stimulation can often mean indoor activity- and that means for many crossword puzzles, word searches, or adult coloring. Solid research supports that doing these activities helps in many ways including:

  • Prevent Dementia
  • Improve Verbal Skills
  • Practice Solving Problems
  • Identifying Patterns

You can find free printouts online or even books at your local grocery store. If the senior in your life loves a good brain challenge, engage with them in one or more of these activities!

To learn more about active brain activity for seniors or to find out more information about our Atlanta assisted living and memory care services in the Tucker, Georgia area, contact us here or call 770-938-5600!

Orchard Senior Living selected for 2016 Tucker Small Business Excellence Award

Orchard Senior Living selected for 2016 Tucker Small Business Excellence Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tucker, GA – November 11, 2016 — Orchard Senior Living has been selected for the 2016 Tucker Small Business Excellence Award in the Retirement Homes classification by the Tucker Small Business Excellence Award Program.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2016 Tucker Small Business Excellence Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Tucker Small Business Excellence Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About the Tucker Small Business Excellence Awards Program

The Tucker Small Business Excellence Awards recognizes outstanding small businesses that serve the Tucker area. Each year, our selection committee identifies businesses that we believe have achieved outstanding marketing success in their local community and business classification.

Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value. These are small businesses that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Tucker area near Atlanta a vibrant and vital place to live.

The Tucker Small Business Excellence Awards was established to reward the best of small businesses in Tucker. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to award the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

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Tucker Small Business Excellence Award Program