Now that your elderly family member is growing older, she might worry that she doesn’t have anything lighting a fire in her heart. Worse, she might worry that she shouldn’t want to be excited about life anymore. These ideas might help.
Your Senior Might Enjoy Mentoring
Older adults often get a new lease on life when they are able to mentor others in skills that they themselves have mastered. Your senior might enjoy working with kids at school or with young business people who are just starting out. Schools, chambers of commerce, and other agencies might have information available about how to start mentoring.
Plan Some Trips with Your Senior
If your elderly family member has been feeling cooped up, it might be time to plan some trips. Even people who have lived in an area for a long time haven’t necessarily seen and done everything there is to do in that area. Look for day trips or even just afternoon trips that your senior can plan with you. These trips might even be ones that she takes on her own with friends as long as that’s a safe idea for her situation.
Explore a Variety of Hobbies
Hobbies tend to get forgotten over the years. Your senior might have loved trying different hobbies, but maybe didn’t have time to keep up with them as much as she wanted to. Now just might be her chance to give them another go. Even if she never enjoyed hobbies in the past, that doesn’t mean she won’t enjoy giving a few a try now. Lots of craft shops and home improvement stores offer training and classes periodically on a variety of different types of hobbies. She might find something she loves.
Volunteering Might Be an Option
Volunteering in your senior’s community might be something that helps her to feel as if she’s giving back. So many groups, agencies, and entities are in need of help that your senior might have just the right experience to provide. She doesn’t need to commit to long hours or anything that she can’t do. Sometimes even helping a little bit is a powerful act of volunteerism.
If your senior is feeling a little lackluster or as if she’s truly out to pasture, some of these ideas might be appealing to her. You may want to consider hiring elder care providers to help out a little with tasks around the house. As your senior gets busier doing things she loves, it can help to have those other tasks already handled.
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