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5/30/11
Courtney
5/30/11
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AarenBrooke Place
Nursing homes and assisted living home are they different? Do they do the same thing? While being at AarenBrooke Place for my learning service research I have learned a lot about working with elderly and how much it is just to take care of them. It is not an easy job. It is quite hard. Caring for every single one of the resident, knowing them by name, and making sure they are getting all the care that they need. While being at AarenBrooke place, it seemed like it was just one huge family. To me, everyone there take care of each other, everyone looks out for each other. The residents look out for each other and take care of each other. The residents seem every nice and were excited to have visitors that came in and spent time with them as well.
Are you a personal trainer? Do you like to exercise? This might be for you. Training the ones that need help can be more helpful for them. Training people that are in assisted living homes can help with them with multiple injuries and help them have fewer injuries. Having them in the home more than the hospital is more satisfying than knowing they are hurt and something could be wrong with them.
In this report I will be talking about exercises in both a nursing home and assisted living home. Some of the information that I will go over are how they are promoted, what types of exercises are done in both of these places, and how it keeps the body healthy, and prevents injuries to residents that live in places like these.
I choose to my research paper on exercises, because my family has gone through a share of trips to the hospitals, because my great grandma kept falling down, hitting something on the way down and broke something in her body. She was not the one that would go out and exercise as much. Her Alzheimer’s had caught up to her. She was forgetting people in the family that were always around her, where she was at, and forgot what happened to her and how she got hurt and had fallen down. Sometimes the nurses at the nursing home that she was at did not even know that she got hurt and was needs medical attention.
When interviewing Peg, who is the activity director at AarenBrooks Place, She told me in our interview, which required by state law in any assisted living homes that has more than 30 residents in an assisted living home has to have a written activity plan for exercises and activities. It is great to hear that in the state of Idaho that they do promote healthy living for everyone. Peg had mentioned that they do exercises five days a week. They go to the YMCA three times a week and do swimming. They go on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. There are about six people that go regularly. They also do exercises at AarenBrook Place five days a week, Monday through Friday. They do a floor exercise that is within the facility. There is a wide rage of people come out and participate, because it is there in the building and they do not have to leave and do something they do not want to do and be stuck there doing something they were not interested in.
Working with elderly in these assisted living homes, Peg is certified through the arthritis foundation to teach these classes that they do for exercises. She went to Oregon for those workshops and did all the training to do get all the certifications, so that she can be an instructor.
Peg has activities that are always posted to let the residents know what is always going on and what activities are planned big for the week for the residents. She does a lot for the resident in this type of place. Knowing that it is hard still for some of the residents that are living there she tries to make it enjoyable of for them to live there. She puts a lot of hard work and effort into this place and her job. She gives it her all twenty four seven.
Strength training is very important. Some people think that you have to be young to do it, you have to be fit and strong to do it, and you have to have the time to do it. Most people in the United States are just too busy to get up and get active. In Strength Training Past 50, Westcott and Baechle talk about strength training for people over fifty that think that they are not able to get out and be motivated like how they used to be. They think that they can hurt themselves if they workout too much and too hard. In Journal of the American Medical Association there was an article was published about a 90 year old that was gaining strength in their muscle from strength training. Dr. William Evans, who was head of the study said, “You’re never too old to exercise, but you’re probably too old not to exercise”(2).
In a study that Westcott and Baechle did, they did a study with 1.132 participants with both men and women. They were working out about two to three days a week for about thirty minutes each day. They had found that in “men average 3.7 pounds of more muscle and women average 1.7 pounds of more muscle”(4).
To have help these people in assisted living home means a lot. It is hard to help train them knowing they are not like everyone else that can do things on their own. Residents in assisted living homes do need help when being there. Exercises might help them in a small way, but it is still helping them get a little stronger everyday.
5/30/11
Draft
AarenBrooke Place
Nursing homes and assisted living home are they the same? Do they do the same thing? While being at Aaren Brooke Place for my learning service research I have learned a lot about working with elderly and how much it is just to take care of them. It is not an easy job. It is quite hard. Caring for every single one the resident, knowing them by name, and making sure they are getting all the care that they need. While being at Aaren Brooke place, it seemed like it was just one huge family. Everyone there take care of each other. The residents seem every nice and were excited to have visitors that came in and spent time with them as well.
In this report I will be talking about exercises in both a nursing home and assisted living home. Some of the information that I will go over are how they are promoted, what types of exercises are done in both of these places, and how it keeps the body healthy, and prevents injuries to residents that live in places like these.
I choose to my research paper on exercises, because my family has gone through a share of trips to the hospitals, because my great grandma kept falling down, hitting something on the way down and broke something in her body. She was not the one that would go out and exercise as much than she stopped. Her Alzheimer’s had caught up to her. She was forgetting people in the family that was always around, where she was, and forgot what happened to her and how she got hurt. Sometimes the nurses at the nursing home that she was at did not even know that she got hurt and was needs medical attention.
When interviewing Peg, who is the activity director at Aaren Brooks Place. She told me in our interview, which required by state law in any assisted living homes that has more than 30 residents in it there has to be a written activity plan for the assisted living homes. It is great to hear that in the state of Idaho that they do promote healthy living for everyone. Peg had mentioned that they do exercises five days a week. They go to the YMCA three times a week and do swimming. They go on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. There are about six people that go regularly. They also do exercises at Aaren Brook Place five days a week, Monday through Friday. They do a floor exercise that is within the facility. There is a wide rage of people come out and participate, because it is there in the building and they do not have to leave and do something they do not want to do and be stuck there doing something they were not interested in.
Working with elderly in these assisted living homes, Peg is certified through the arthritis foundation to teach these classes that they do for exercises. She went to Oregon for those workshops and did all the training to do get all the certifications, so that she can be an instructor.
Peg has activities that are always posted to let the residents know what is always going on and what activities are planned big for the week for the residents. She does a lot for the resident in this type of place. Knowing that it is hard still for some of the residents that are living there she tries to make it enjoyable of them to live there. She puts a lot of hard work and effort into this place and her job. She gives it her all twenty four seven.
Strength training is every important. Some people think that you have to be young to do it, you have to be fit and strong to do it, and you have to have the time to do it. Most people in the United States are just too busy to get up and get active. In Strength Training Past 50, Westcott and Baechle talk about strength training for people over fifty that think that they are not able to get out and be motivated like how they used to be. They think that they can hurt themselves if they workout too much and too hard. In Journal of the American Medical Association there was an article was published about a 90 year old that was gaining strength in their muscle from strength training. Dr. William Evans, who was head of the study said, “You’re never too old to exercise, but you’re probably too old not to exercise”(2).
In a study that Westcott and Baechle did. They did a study with 1.132 participants with both men and women. They were working out about two to three days a week for about thirty minutes each day. They had found that in “men average 3.7 pounds of more muscle and women average 1.7 pounds of more muscle”(4).
