As you close in on your golden years, you start to wonder if your best days are behind you. You may worry that you will have to be dependent on your children soon and switch to a slow-paced life. You’ll move in with your children and turn to them to look after you and might have certain limitations while you are there.
In the current scenario, where changing lifestyles have both men and women travelling for work, it is unlikely that children have the time to provide the attention that their senior parents need. Here are a few reasons to consider living in a retirement home over depending on your children to look after you.?
- Socialising with people from the same age group: Retirement homes bring together seniors and encourage social interactions between them. This improves their mental health and helps do away with any disengagement dealt with family at home. It’s impossible to feel like you are on your own in such a community.?
- Round-the-clock care: As more and more families are turning nuclear in which both parents work, your children may not be able to give you all the attention you need. Alternatively, a retirement home has a professional system in place to take care of you, including a 24-hour medical service and emergency response teams within the premises.?
- Senior-friendly physical activities: To help reduce the risks of developing certain illnesses and improve your psychological health, it is important for you to engage yourself in physical activity from time to time. Retirement homes offer senior-friendly gyms and yoga sessions that require only mild activity. A regular apartment at home may not have the same facilities at home.
- Entertainment and leisure:?After your years spent working, comes your time to relax. However, your children may not have the same amount of time to lay back and chill as you do. A retirement community regularly hosts events to incorporate the fun-factor to your seemingly slow-paced lives. From singing, watching movies, game nights and celebrating birthdays and festivals, there can never be a dull day.?
- Customised meal plans to suit your diet: Your family has to be extra cautious while serving your everyday nourishment. Taking into consideration your medical records, retirement homes curate meal plans to ensure you have a healthy balanced diet while enjoying great meals.?
- The feeling of independence: Aging is likely to make living independently on your own a little difficult. But with the support of a retirement home, one can live independently through their golden years. Your self-esteem remains intact since you do not need to depend on your children.???
- Peaceful stay away from the city:?(and away from pollution and crowded areas; more nature) Your family may choose to live in the city, where pollution never seems to cease and the crowds are only going to grow in size. Moreover, the traffic congestion in and outside the city will attract blaring horns that do nothing but not calm your mind. Retirement homes are located away from cities amid nature surrounded by more greens than smoke.
- Safer living conditions: To continue living independently past the age of 55, you need to live in a home that reduces the chance of accidents such as slipping and tripping. Senior-friendly design features such as wooden floors to avoid skidding and grab bars to prevent a fall are found in retirement societies to help make living on your own easier. All this and more to keep you comfortable in a safer environment – the features may not be available in your child’s home.?
- Companionship for singles: If you are a senior single – unmarried, widowed, separated or divorced – you would prefer to live amongst like-minded individuals, rather than feel isolated. Retirement communities have special single groups within them to instrument such relationships.?
- Your family is only a call away: If you wish to see your family during your stay, you can always invite them to your home or the retirement home can set up a meeting for you.?
It is NO LONGER A TABOO for seniors to live separately from their children. You can choose to live on your own and there is ample opportunity for one to do so. A comfortable stay with enough room for fun awaits you.
