Creating a Meaningful Retirement Life: Hobbies, Activities, and Community Involvement
Aged Care Christchurch
Holly Lea Village has perfected the art of individualized care, including ensuring your well-being through exploring the wide range of unique activities, community functions, and experiences available on site.
Having a range of activities available to you is essential to having a meaningful lifestyle throughout retirement and is one of the often overlooked aspects of well-rounded health and wellbeing. Being part of a community and engaging in activities inspires you to get physically active and keep mentally sharp. It also helps you to create and nurture connections with peers and family.
Because of this, taking an active stance in hobbies, activities, and community involvement is a really important part of the retirement lifestyle. Here at Holly Lea Village, we have a variety of activities that can help and keep you stimulated, interested and excited about the years of retirement you have ahead of you.
Benefits of Hobbies and Activities
Engaging in hobbies and activities is often something that falls by the wayside at some point during youth, and it can take a while to work out how to pick those hobbies back up again.
Engaging in hobbies and fun community activities has some really good benefits for health. Stimulating your brain through an activity or hobby can help to keep you feeling good, and learning a new skill can make you feel accomplished.
Depending on which hobbies or activities you choose to work on, the physical and mental benefits will differ. But all hobbies and activities share the same basic purpose, which is to keep you active each day, getting up and about, and engaging in your community. These have significant impacts on your daily step count, the number of people you talk to in a day, and all sorts of other metrics for physical and mental well-being.
Community Involvement at Holly Lea Village
Here at Holly Lea Village, we love hearing about your passions and projects. Much of our community life involves organizing activities based on shared passions, such as using one of the lounges for a game of Scrabble with friends, or going out on a weekly outing!
Community passions also include musical guests and lecturers, with a revolving cast of characters that are ever-changing. You can even catch up on some learning within our private lounge spaces.
If you feel like getting more social, why not attend happy hour, or enjoy a night at the movie theatre before retiring to the lounge to discuss what you’ve watched. You can even host your own activities and community projects in the activities room, which is specially designed as a community space.
Personal Growth and Development
It is never too late to start learning, so why not take the time in your retirement to master a new skill! Engaging in hobbies and community activities can help to continue your personal growth and development, even as you age.
Retirement is just another phase of life, so you should take the opportunities to engage with your peers and learn new things wherever and whenever you can. Life in a supportive and caring retirement community will never stop giving you opportunities to meet new people, form new opinions, and try new things. There’s never been a better time!
The Role of Individual Preferences
Living in a retirement community gives you the option for a low-stakes, low-investment attempt at new hobbies and pursuits. Just give something a go and if you decide it isn’t your cup of tea, you never have to try doing it again, you can move on and try something else!
The important part here is to ensure that there is a plan in place within your retirement community for if you don’t enjoy most or all of the readily available activities. Options should always be available to ensure you have the ability to keep trying new activities till you find something you like.
At Holly Lea, you can always talk to the staff members about your options for hobbies and activities. Try suggesting getting in someone you like to give a lecture or put in a request for a movie marathon of your favourite film franchise at the cinema.
Conclusion
Having an active, engaging lifestyle in your retirement years is very important. It not only provides both mental and physical health benefits, but it can also help you to create lasting connections in your community.
Being supported, fulfilled, and genuinely just having a good time in your retirement is something that Holly Lea Village takes very seriously. We are always open to new ideas for community activities, hobbies, and ways in which we can support you throughout your retirement.
So, if you are looking for a retirement community contact Holly Lea Village today!
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