National Wellness Month in Broward County

Taking small steps to improve your personal wellness can lead to healthy habits in your lifestyle.

August is National Wellness Month! It marks the perfect time to focus on stress reduction, healthy habits, and self-care. Wellness practices have been around for centuries, but this national month was created to encourage everyone to make small changes to their daily routines to support long-term health. The focus shifts toward holistic health and preventative care, emphasizing that wellness is more than just avoiding illness.

Wellness Tips for Seniors

• Prioritize sleep, try to get 7-9 hours each night
• Stay hydrated, drink plenty of water each day
• Stay physically active, it can be as easy as taking brief walks daily
• Stretch more, try chair yoga to help maintain flexibility
• Engage your mind, learn something new, read books, or work on puzzles
• Stay connected, meet with friends and family regularly

How We’re Improving Wellness in Our Community

At Griswold Care Pairing for Broward County, we are always looking to improve how we care for our community. We’re happy to partner with a few companies to enable our care to be even better.

Griswold Care Plus: Our Virtual Care (also known as Griswold Care Plus), through Sensi, ensures your loved one is supported around-the-clock, whether or not a Caregiver is present. The HIPAA-compliant technology provides always-on care by monitoring sounds in the home. It can detect falls, physical distress, calls for help, and identify early signs of cognitive decline, infection, medication errors, potential UTIs, and more. This critical information is used to provide an enhanced level of care and peace of mind.

Able Care: Coming soon to Broward County, Able Care will help us gauge your risk of falling and prevent future hospitalizations. With the Able Assess Tool, we’ll measure your grip strength, balance, and gait. Afterwards, we will provide you with a Griswold Strength Score. Using that score, we will provide tips for small changes to your daily routine that can help prevent falls.

Falls are one of the leading causes of injury among older adults and can result in hospital stays, surgery, long recovery periods, and loss of independence. They can also lead to fear, anxiety, and isolation after an accident occurs.

Griswold Can Help

At Griswold Care Pairing for Broward County, we are proud to offer a variety of non-medical home care services throughout Broward County. We offer respite care if you need a short break, all the way up to live-in care when extra support is needed. We are happy to serve Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, and the surrounding areas. If you are looking for home care, give us a call today! We’d be happy to discuss your options for care and help put together a personalized care plan.

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