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5 Senior Home Care Yoga Health Benefits

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Staying active is an important part of staying healthy for your aging loved one. Yoga can be a great addition to your loved one’s weekly exercise plan. It is gaining popularity among older adults and there are now often yoga classes that are geared specifically toward seniors, keeping in mind their physical and strength limitations.

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Yoga can be performed at home in front of the television while watching an online class or can be done in a group session at your local community center, gym, or even in a park. Your senior home care provider can help your senior attend these group classes by providing rides to and from. If your loved one prefers to stay at home, having a senior home care provider nearby when she does her yoga might provide the reassurance she needs if she’s a bit nervous about doing it.

Once your loved one has found a class or program that she likes, she will discover that yoga provides some great health benefits.

It Reduces Stress

Yoga teaches a person how to release the stress that’s been building up in their body, especially in the shoulders and back. Yoga can reduce blood pressure, lower anxiety, lower the heart rate, and help a person breathe more easily. All of these may in turn reduce hypertension enough to reduce the need for medication.

It Can Prevent Falls

Because yoga works on balance, flexibility, and mobility, it might help your loved one reduce the risk of falling. The slow, measured movements that are a part of many yoga poses can lead to better balance and movement, which will reduce the chances of your loved one losing her balance while walking and taking a tumble.

It Can Help Your Loved One Get Up

Yoga often increases core strength and leg strength, both of which can diminish as a person gets older, making climbing stairs and even getting out of a chair more difficult. With this improved strength, your loved one might find she doesn’t avoid stairs or require the assistance of her senior home care provider to climb a flight of them.

It Reduces the Risk of Broken Bones

If your loved one does take a stumble, she will be less likely to break a bone if she does yoga regularly. Yoga can prevent the onset of osteoporosis in seniors by strengthening bones and preventing a loss of bone mass.

It Improves Sleep

Yoga helps sleep both by providing necessary activity during the day time, and by having this activity focus on mindfulness and relaxation so those daily stress points don’t carry over into the evening hours when your loved one is trying to fall asleep.

Yoga can be a great activity for your aging senior. It doesn’t require a certain physical skill set, has a low investment level, and can be done at a variety of levels, letting your loved one start where she’s comfortable.

For more information about how caregivers at La Jolla Nurses Homecare can help your aging parents stay in their own homes, call 858-454-9339. We are a home care agency providing quality and affordable Senior Home Care in Pacific Beach, CA, and the surrounding communities.

Brittnei Salerno

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