Through my work on our wellness and life enrichment listserv, I hear a lot of conversations, ideas, questions and feedback about this important topic. To that end, I composed a list of resolutions for improving our work in promoting wellness and life enrichment in aging services. I encourage you to share your own wellness resolutions for 2011. Happy New Year!
We resolve to:
* Always treat older adults as assets within our organizations and communities.
* Support the development of experiences that enrich the lives of older adults.
* Ask big, wide open questions to discover and understand the needs of the elders within our organizations and communities.
* Embrace a definition of wellness that moves far beyond physical fitness to include emotional, intellectual, vocational, social, spiritual and environmental health.
* Be creative and bold as we consider ways to expand the world of possibilities for aging.
* Partner with unexpected community organizations to enhance the lives of both residents/participants and community members.
* Include all levels of care and ability when developing wellness and life enrichment programming.
* Include staff and families as integral elements of wellness and life enrichment programming.
* Take risks.
* Be gentle with ourselves as we do difficult and rewarding work on behalf of older adults and their families.
By Kirsten Jacobs
Source: Wellness Resolutions for 2011
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