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Health and Wellness
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Importance of Positive Social Connections
loneliness and give you a chance to offer needed companionship too. Friends can also:
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tudies have shown the positive impact of family and social relationship plays an important part in one’s health and psychosocial wellbeing. As one ages, support systems tend to decrease and it is important to remain socially active. Understand the importance of friendships in your life and what you can do to develop and nurture friendships. Good friends are good for your health. Friends can help you celebrate good times and provide support during bad times. Friends prevent
• Increase your sense of belonging and purpose • Boost your happiness and reduce your stress • Improve your selfconfidence and self-worth • Help you cope with traumas, such as divorce, serious illness, job loss or the death of a loved one • Encourage you to change or avoid unhealthy lifestyle habits, such as excessive Benefits of Living in a Socially Connected Community with Neighbors There are many advantages of living in a caring and socially connected community such as Brookdale that is designed to enrich and improve lives, making day-to-day living as easy and maintenance-free as possible.
Living in a community offers the unique opportunity to learn new things such as a new hobby and more importantly, social activities make it easy for residents to build relationships with their neighbors who share similar interests. You'll find engaging activities that also stimulate the mind, like gardening, volunteering and more. By being a sociable neighbor, you not only bring benefit to your neighbor, but also you may make a friend and benefit yourself in the process. By engaging others you can establish and retain relationships, particularly those that are reciprocal, each giving and taking. It includes being productive by getting involved with activities that have meaning. Positive relationships benefit everyone!
Wellness Challenge Look for Opportunities to Connect with Your Neighbors
You can't meet your neighbors if you're always inside your home. Consider spending little time out of your home quarters just watching things that happen in your community. When you become more familiar with the routines of your neighbors, go
over and demonstrate care and concern. Tell your neighbor you just wanted to say hello and reintroduce yourself. Ask them questions like: • How long have you lived here? • Can I help you with anything?
• Any questions I can answer about our communities or activities? Be Well on Purpose!
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Brookdale News Kindness is Ageless
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ach year in the month of February hundreds of Brookdale communities across the country participate in Kindness is Ageless day. On February 17th, legions of Brookdale residents will descend on shopping malls, fire stations, restaurants, children’s homes, and all manner of other places to touch people with small acts of kindness. Many folks will give away flowers to strangers. Others bake and deliver cookies or pick up part of a lunch tab.
The reason we do this is simple: kindness matters and we want the world to know it. No one knows better than our elders that kindness can brighten a day, give a little hope, and bring a smile to someone’s face. And, we also know that kindness spreads like wildfire. The person who receives an act of kindness will most likely pass it on by telling someone about it or simply doing something nice for someone else. While it’s not a reason to do it, kindness does have some health benefits. Science tells us that engaging in kind acts makes us happier, improves heart health, and even slows the aging process by reducing free radicals that lead to inflammation. Whatever your reason for doing it-be kind to someone today. https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/the-science-of-kindness
An Engaged Life
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etty Jett loves art. She was a very shy little girl in school and art was her outlet. As her talent grew, it became a professional endeavor. “When I got married and had my children I started selling my oil paintings to earn money,” Betty shared. She also taught art in Bay District schools and Head Start programs, and served as weekend manager for the former Visual Arts Center. Betty’s specialty became painting Panama City, FL landscapes and waterscapes, mostly of buildings and landmarks. Betty shared, “If they were going to tear a building down, I would go ahead and paint it, to preserve it.” Jayson Kretzer, executive director at the Bay Arts Alliance, noted that Jett’s paintings would be of particular interest to Panama City residents, because they focus on local buildings and landmarks, many of which were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Michael. At Brookdale Panama City, the community supports Betty’s and other residents’ creativity by providing an unconventional painting and craft program, trips to a local art gallery, and hosting their own art show with her as the featured artist. A retrospective of Betty’s work was also showcased recently at the Visual Arts Center of Bay Co.
