By Kristine Theurer, PhD “If it doesn’t help my bottom line, I’m not interested.” I was having a brief chat at a conference with a CEO who operates 10 senior living homes, explaining how peer support and mentoring reduces...
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Loneliness is everywhere. Peer support – residents helping resident – is a cost effective and powerful approach to ending loneliness in senior living. Yet in the search for a solution, peer support is often overlooked. How can we create...
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.” – Rachel Naomi Remen Being a good listener is not...
Getting a flu shot matters. “Flu and pneumonia are a critical health concern, and in recent years have resulted in over 50,000 deaths annually, making it the eighth-leading cause of death, just behind diabetes,” says Alison Bryant, Ph.D., senior...
Java Mentorship is having the opportunity of getting together with a group of friends and sharing our inner feelings with each other. It gives us the opportunity to share with each other emotionally, physically, and mentally. Emotionally if a...
Depression and loneliness contribute to functional declines, and mortality.(1) The associated health risks for loneliness alone are significant and include premature mortality and poorer health(2), dementia and how quickly dementia progresses and numerous poor health outcomes, such as cancer...
“One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.” Dalai Lama “I’m so lonely here.” That is how one individual living with dementia described...
Feeling connected has a significant impact on our health and well-being, but a surprising number of people don’t feel connected.1 We can all feel emotionally disconnected at times. Are you looking for a way to build better relationships—with friends,...
The Java Webinar Series are a partnership between Ontario Centres for Learning Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care hosted at the Bruyère Research Institute, Carleton University and Java Group Programs with funding provided by the Centre for Aging + Brain...
Last spring, DayBreak Adult Day Program participated in a 10-week Master Class series at one of our local schools, Columbine Elementary. Master Classes were taught by volunteers from the community. Some volunteers brought their passion, coordination, and dance shoes...