Re-Create The Senior’s Soul

Re-create the Senior’s Soul discusses the importance of recreation and leisure in providing a healthy lifestyle for seniors. This book will provide you with the know-how to be successful in leading a happier, more productive life. Learn how to motivate yourself and accomplish your lifestyle goals, and get excited about life. Recreation and leisure can help you cope with loss, avoid social isolation, and defeat depression. Identifying support systems is a valuable tool to help with leading a healthy life. Yves Saint Laurent died of loneliness; don’t let this happen to you or your loved ones!

• Learn about the similarities and differences between recreation and leisure.
• Learn the importance that recreation and leisure play in life. Learn how they fit into health and wellness and rejuvenate the mind, body, and spirit.
• Losses are a part of life at any age, but as we get older, those closest to us pass away, and how we chose to deal with losses can help us to move on and continue with life.
• Statistically, there are many seniors that are living in isolation and are at risk of dying from loneliness. As our population ages, the number of people that will be at risk of isolation will also increase. We can all make a difference in someone’s life, and we all need tips and strategies that may be helpful in reversing the effects of isolation.
• Many seniors are at risk of developing depression. It may come in the form of a situational depression or clinical depression that will affect their life and the people around them. Leisure activities, often in conjunction with other interventions, can be beneficial in battling depression.
• Many seniors feel they are alone. There are often support systems available that some may not recognize. Utilizing and identifying these resources is imperative to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Identifying ways to get excited about life can be very difficult at times. Get in touch with yourself again and discover what gets you excited, and experience the joy of loving life.
• Motivating ourselves can be a difficult task at times. What techniques can you use to motivate yourself? What gets you out of bed in the morning? We all need to find strategies to get ourselves going from time to time. An understanding of what motivates us can help us be aware of some of our barriers and thus over come them. Attitude counts!

About The Book

Re-create the Senior’s Soul is designed to help the reader understand the importance of recreation and leisure in their lives. We all tend to think of recreation and leisure as “fun time” without understanding the implications of just how important it is in maintaining a healthy life! We all have parents and grandparents, siblings and loved ones that are aging. Hopefully, they are among the majority of seniors that are active and healthy. This book will teach everyone how to look at what they do in their free time, and make it an opportunity to choose healthy ways to fill that time. As we age, our free time expands, and, often, people do not know what to do with all of their newfound freedom. Developing an action plan that will lead you on the path to a more productive life will help to improve self-esteem, physical, mental, and emotional well-being, and encourage healthy choices in all aspects of life. Isolation and loneliness have been identified as risk factors in premature death, and the older we get, the greater the risk.