New and Creative Ideas for Spending Time With Your Senior Loved One This Autumn

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Autumn Can Be a Great Season to Get Closer to Your Senior Loved Ones

The fall season is a wonderful time for you to spend quality time with senior loved ones in your life. The weather is cool, but usually not so cold that a typical senior braves the outdoors with a lite coat. Pacific Northwest living requires a rain coat. Adding layers under that rain coat becomes needed as the wet climate progresses toward winter. Be aware and pack an extra layer to add to that rain coat. Now no matter what part of the fall season you’re in, attractive foliage and wildlife is something to enjoy. So pack up, for fun ideas spending time with your senior loved one this fall.

Bird Watching

Bird watching is a nice fall senior activity because it allows you to get outside with your senior loved one, and the activity itself is not particularly strenuous. Getting out into nature and appreciating the beauty of life in all its forms is a wonderful way to spend time with older relatives and those who may be in your care.

Baseball Game

You’ll want to get to this one early in the fall as the Major League playoffs start in early October, but if you can get to a baseball game, it can be another great way to enjoy an exciting environment out of doors without too much stress (unless your loved one is a diehard fan of the home team). Baseball has even been shown to help with age-related memory loss. Of course, you don’t have to watch professional sports to have a good time. If your children participate in sports in the fall, why not invite your senior loved ones to take in a game? They’re sure to appreciate it.

Digitizing Photos

Not every activity has to take place outside. Your senior loved one may have a ton of physical photos stored somewhere, or perhaps you have a box in the attic that they’re likely to respond to. Going through old photos and getting them into digital format gives your senior loved one an opportunity to reminisce about good times while also making sure a record of their past is safely stored and easy to share with loved ones and friends.

Play Games

Those board games you loved as a kid are still lots of fun, and there are many more incredible games that have arrived since the last time you played regularly. Enjoying a game with your senior loved one can not only inspire fun and laughter, but can also spark your senior loved one’s cognitive abilities and help keep them sharp, something very important to focus on as people get older.

Volunteering

It’s very important that we find ways to maintain the feeling of being productive as we get older. Taking your senior loved one out to volunteer this fall. Everyone wins when volunteering. Lending a helping hand with our local homeless can be extremely rewarding. Keep safe and choose a local church to pair with while serving your community. This activity, while not being particularly strenuous for your loved one can be very gratifying.

What To Do When It’s Time for Elder Care

While we all want to spend as much time as possible with your senior loved one, there are times when we can’t be around. It’s important to find help, if your senior loved one has health issues or other concerns that make it difficult to be on their own. In the Portland Metro and Northern California area, Golden Placements is here to provide that help. Assisting families in finding the right kind of adult care home or assisted living community for your loved one is what we love to do. We’re here to help right now, so if you need assistance finding the correct standard of care for your senior loved one.  Golden Placements wants to help. Contact us for more information on quality senior housing placements today.


Original Post on  June 3, 2018 . This post has been recently updated as of May 2022. Resources: Read more from the Golden Girls Senior Placement Specialists: Find Care Facilities for Your Loved One

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Diane Delaney, Placement Specialist Extraordinaire

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Diane Delaney

Delaney is the founder of Golden Placement Services. She began this business with a healthy dose of compassion for  helping families make educated decisions regarding senior placement. Focused to relieve stress in uncertain senior housing crucial moments. For all those involved, Diane brings about loving change of lifestyle with grace. Diane is an accomplished executive manager, Director of Operations in senior housing. She enjoys sharing her experience by writing about the full spectrum of the transition process for seniors and family members. Read more from Senior Placement Specialist Diane: Ultimate Senior Living Resource Guide >>


LaVona Tombrelin, Senior Placement Specialist

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Tombrelin brings a high level of education and experience to you as your Senior Placement Specialist at GPS. She loves writing about improving the lives of Elderly working in private care and in-home care for over 36 years. Geriatrics, Memory Care. Plus holds Master of Psychology Behavioral Health with the goal of advocating for those who needed a voice. Helping the families to make good decisions and to relieve their stress in uncertain times makes life worthwhile.

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