First, we wish to thank veteran Roy Nivens and the Etowah Fireplace Division for getting our flags again up after the ropes broke. We’re so proud that we’re in a position to present respect to our nation and its veterans by displaying our American and POW flags.

Just lately, Stephanie Shanahan, Etowah Neighborhood Middle Supervisor, and Assistant Supervisor Jennifer Chamlee visited the senior heart. They informed our seniors all about their facility and the packages they provide. The aim of the Neighborhood Middle is to encourage good well being and to carry households nearer via health, sports activities, enjoyable, and shared pursuits.

One program on the Etowah Neighborhood Middle is Silver Sneakers. It’s a well being and health program that gives train courses for older adults. The price of this system is roofed by most Medicare Benefit plans. As soon as you’re within the silver sneakers program, you’ll be able to make the most of different issues the middle affords. Silver Sneakers meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10 a.m. Even when your Medicare plan doesn’t cowl Silver Sneakers, you’re invited to take part. Name for extra info.

The Etowah Neighborhood Middle additionally affords Zumba courses Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 and on Saturdays from 10-11. In addition they have a weight and cardio room, recreation room, dance and aerobics room, assembly and social gathering rooms, and a gymnasium. They’ve a pool desk, ping-pong desk and pickleball. They provide particular person charges in addition to household charges. They’ve month-to-month, quarterly, and yearly plans obtainable. You’ll be able to even pay by the day. For extra details about the neighborhood heart and what packages they provide, name 423-263-6575.

We have now a number of completely different train packages every year on the heart. We host the arthritis train program carried out by the UT Extension Company. We simply accomplished an train program with Tonya Phenix, health teacher and proprietor of the Sweetwater Health Middle. We have now our personal train courses often. We attempt to differ the varieties of workouts. We do chair workouts, band workouts, yoga, power coaching, and lots of others. When you concentrate on exercising, you don’t actually assume you’re doing one thing good on your mind, however you’re. Many people expertise mind fog as we age. Train adjustments the mind in ways in which defend reminiscence and pondering abilities.

When your coronary heart charge will increase, extra oxygen is pumped to your mind. This aids within the launch of a hormone which gives a superb atmosphere for the expansion of latest mind cells. New mind cells are one thing all of us might use.

Bodily train isn’t the one kind of train good on your mind. There are a lot of different actions that may stimulate the mind. Under are some the explanation why it’s so essential to train your mind in addition to another actions that may assist maintain your thoughts sharp.

Have you ever ever heard somebody say, “use it or lose it?” When somebody says that, they often are speaking about your muscle tissues. However the saying might additionally discuss with your mind.

Most of us don’t consider our mind as an organ that wants care and a focus, like we do our coronary heart, lungs, and pores and skin. We might imagine our mind is past our management or affect. In truth, we most likely don’t give it some thought in any respect till one thing goes mistaken, like an harm or illness reminiscent of dementia. However in actuality, your mind wants simply as a lot, if no more, train and a focus than the remainder of your physique to maintain it sharp, wholesome, and performing at its perfect. Mind workouts may even delay the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Once you maintain your thoughts energetic, your pondering abilities are much less prone to decline. Your mind is probably the most very important organ in your physique, controlling each bodily operate.

Many individuals don’t perceive why your mind wants train. And even fewer perceive methods to do it. If you’re over the age of 18, a few of your cognitive abilities have already headed south, in response to a research from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how. The next are a number of the cognitive talents that change as you age:

• Processing Velocity. That is how briskly you soak up new info and reply to it. It’s principally pondering in your ft. This capacity peaks in your late teenagers.

• Working Reminiscence. That is your capacity to carry a number of items of knowledge in your mind. That is additionally known as short-term reminiscence. This peaks in your late 20s and 30s.

• Social Cognition. That is your capacity to understand and interpret social info, like physique language or facial expressions and reply accordingly. This peaks in your 40s.

• Vocabulary. Studying the that means of latest phrases peaks within the 60s. Broader vocabulary helps you talk extra successfully and higher perceive the world round you.

Now that you already know what occurs to your mind as you age, we’ll study what to do about it. There are quite a few mind workouts that may assist. The next will provide you with some strategies of what you are able to do to stimulate your mind:

• Work your reminiscence. The only approach to bear in mind issues is by repetition. Once you meet somebody new, repeat their title again to them. Once you hear a music you want, attempt to memorize the lyrics. Memorize Bible verses, your grocery listing, or a poem.

• Be taught one thing new. Be taught to play an instrument, sport, language or sport.

• Work your physique. Bodily train is nice on your mind.

• Eat the correct meals. Meals like fish, vegatables and fruits assist your mind carry out optimally. Even darkish chocolate offers your mind a lift.

• Do math in your head. Determine basic math issues in your head.

• Take a cooking class or cook dinner at house. Cooking makes use of quite a lot of senses: Scent, contact, sight and style. These all can enhance sure areas in your mind.

• Draw a map from reminiscence. Once you go to a sure place, while you go house, strive to attract a map of the place you had been at. Repeat this each time you go to a brand new location.

• Problem your style buds. When consuming, attempt to determine particular person components in your meal. Attempt to select sure herbs and spices. Eat new meals.

• Take up a passion that includes hand/eye coordination. Do an exercise that includes tremendous motor abilities reminiscent of knitting, drawing, portray, working puzzles and taking part in bingo.

• Get sufficient sleep. Sleep is vital to rejuvenate your mind.

• Take a special route in your approach to work or house. This forces your mind to concentrate to particulars quite than what it has been programmed to do.

• Take a superb take a look at issues. One of the dominate jobs of your mind is your visible sense. With the ability to visually analyze your atmosphere offers you cognitive clues about methods to behave in it. Growing this a part of your mind could be achieved by choosing out three gadgets and their location. Once you go away the setting, shut your eyes and see in case you can precisely bear in mind every merchandise and its location. When you do that while you park someplace, you’ll bear in mind the place you park. We have now all come out of a retailer and forgot the place we parked. Doing this train will assist with that. You may also discover issues in your environment after which write all of it down from recall.

• Do easy duties together with your non-dominant hand. Attempt consuming, brushing your enamel and writing with the opposite hand.

• Begin the morning off together with your newspaper. You can find phrase puzzles reminiscent of crosswords and Sudoku. The Each day Submit-Athenian within the weekend paper has an awesome number of puzzles.

• When you all the time sit in a sure chair at your desk, change seats. Even change the place the place you often attain for the salt and pepper.

• Have extra social interplay. Pay an actual individual on your gasoline. Purchase a drink from an individual quite than a machine.

• Learn. Nearly something you learn helps your mind. For a fair higher impact, change up the way in which your learn. Learn out loud for a change. Learn to another person.

• Select an object and consider 10 alternative ways to make use of it. As an example, a fly swatter may very well be used as a tennis racket, golf membership, fan, baton, drumstick, violin, shovel, microphone, baseball bat or a canoe paddle.

Holding off the getting older means of your mind is type of like shopping for a health club membership and by no means utilizing it. To have a pointy functioning mind means incorporating these actions into your on a regular basis routine. Doing mind workouts will provide you with a superb head begin to good mind well being.

Right here on the heart, you can see some ways to stimulate your mind. Taking part in bingo, working puzzles, taking part in video games, socializing, portray, and doing arts and crafts are only a few mind actions we do right here. You might be greater than welcome to return see what we do. You simply may even make a brand new pal.

Under are some actions we’ll provide within the subsequent few days:

• Could 13: 9 a.m. — Video games; 10 a.m. — Mind Video games; 11 a.m. — Crafts

• Could 16: 9 a.m. — Video games 10 a.m. — Bingo with Hospice of Chattanooga; 11 a.m. — Icebreakers

• Could 17: 9 a.m. — Video games; 10 a.m. — Bingo with Cameron Medical Provide

• Could 18: 9 a.m. — Video games; 10 a.m. — Bingo; 11 a.m. — Group Singing

• Could 20: 9 a.m. — Video games; 10 a.m. — Bean Public sale with Hospice of Chattanooga; 11 a.m. — Etowah Senior Fowl Watchers

Sue Walker is the chief director of the Etowah Space Senior Residents Middle. She could also be reached by calling 423-781-7632.