restorative Tips 101 - For Holistic Living

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Australia is one of the many western societies becoming a place of obsessive, poor nutrient over-eating; many Australians have poor time supervision coupled with misguided incentives and misinformation, health has been put in the back of our minds. The health of our western culture is decreasing rapidly. More work on from the drug companies is steering many toward artificial and short term answers. Weight loss surgery and weight loss pills are becoming the norm in our society. Pharmaceutical companies are pumping out millions of pills to the unsuspecting social to merely treat the "symptoms"* of poor health associated deficiencies and all the while multiple negative reactions cause many to go through the whole process again months or even weeks or days later to receive more "Bandaid Solutions"*.

This report presents a practical approach to achieving and maintaining Optimum health

• Nutrition; Your knowledge and wisdom
With the weather as erratic as it is colse to the globe, cooling down to the chills of autumn (fall) and winter, or heating up to the searing temperatures of hot summer days it is prominent to be feeding the body with the right number of Healthy, Fresh and Organic nourishment to withhold a sustainable healthy lifestyle. Eat into some fresh homemade vegetable soups which are fast absorbed into the body due to their already liquid state. Fresh fruits are also a staple part of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle as well as lean and organic meats from chicken and beef to fish and other highly lean game meats which are exceptionally high in protein and Iron whilst very low in fat.

Most local fresh food markets (Not Supermarkets) are a great source of healthy nutrient rich food and you can enjoy the climate with a friend over a healthy lunch. If you are unable to make it to the markets and your only option is the supermarket, then I encourage you to do your shopping from colse to the outside edge of the shop, where all the freshest vegetables, meats, dairy and fresher bread are kept. Buy or even grow (if you can) some herbs and spices to enhance the flavour of your meals as well as growth the number of minerals in your diet. Minerals help the body discharge all the vitamins which work to build best a uncut health.

With my experience in the health and Fitness industry i have recognised that very rarely do many of my clients focus on, take note of or are even aware of state of interior health, yet only later after the health has destabilised to the point of illness or disease do many recognise it in their lack of energy, motivation, fluctuating weight (not always increased) and lastly decreased health status.

Here are a few questions you should be asking yourself and answering...honestly!

1. Are you involved with the number of toxins and chemicals in your environment?
2. Do you feel you get sufficient nourishment from the food you currently eat?
3. Do you eat organic produce?
4. Do you currently get a sound 8 hours sleep every night?
5. Do you feel alert every morning when you wake?
6. Do you have a hard time losing weight?
7. Do you consume coffee, tea, sugar, candy or similar products to give you a boost while the day?

• More than 65 insecticides, pesticides and herbicides can be found on everyday furnish purchased at the market?
• More citizen today are reliant on outside stimulants to get through the day, caffeine being the biggest culprit
• Most of us currently have a scheduled maintenance for our car, our home air conditioner, water systems and even our pools; but we are not always as diligent with our own internal maintenance.

"Education and Not Medication Is the Key To Optimum, Sustainable health & Wellness"

You see then, the biggest issue (pardon the pun) for many citizen this day and age in our western societies isn't just a lack of fitness, motivation, determination but also a lack of real and life giving knowledge and schooling when it comes to healthy nourishment and sustainability. As a health pro I believe and promote a holistic approach to a unblemished and sustainable lifestyle. health professionals should be educating clients and patients toward a holistic and unblemished lifestyle through sufficient nourishment and exercise. I firmly believe that schooling and not medication is the key to an optimum, sustainable health and wellness.

• Exercise; Your healthy motivation to achieve!

The days are gone when:

1. A simple walk colse to the block was the motivation to go to the shops and buy the milk and bread. Instead Today: driving to the shops in the car is much more time efficient.
2. A game of football, cricket or soccer in the street was interrupted by passing cars and the milkman! Instead Today: interrupted by a new game for the "simulated game console"
3. A rainy day was spent inside playing cards, construction diminutive battle grounds in the bedroom, a game of monopoly or scrabble Instead Today: hours spent in front of the 100cm plasma playing the newest software game
4. The tired parent establishment a simple meal consisting a platter of fresh carrots, celery, cheese, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, beetroot, apples, bananas, nuts, bread rolls, sliced ham and turkey... And that is just what I can remember from when I was 5yrs old. Instead Today: order Fatty, Overcooked, Unhealthy Take Away

These are just a few examples of the changes which I have noticed in the Australian western cultured background of the last 30 years and I grew up in a large house where everyone who could; played soccer, gymnastics, cricket, basket ball, hockey, volleyball, tennis, Afl, rugby league, rugby union..you name it we played it either competitively or in a backyard, quiet street capacity. Exercise has been left in the dark and only the committed, sport goal oriented, individuals remain. Otherwise it is those committed to some sort of weekly fitness schedule with a personal trainer. To those who don't have a personal trainer and last longer than 12 months, striving for above mean health...congratulations. I'm talking about those who may be in the kind of gold passes to their local gym, I'm talking about those who step outside at any time of the year and share in some sort of Exercise regimen or personal health interest.

1. What makes you tick, is it coffee or endorphins?
2. What food did you eat as a child, was it chocolate cake or fruit?
3. How many times can you run colse to the block without getting tired?
4. Have you been inspired to go for a walk, ride, run or swim in the last 30 days?
5. Have you just eaten so much food that you feel lethargic?
6. How many times have you been sick this year?
7. How many times did you get sick last year?

Note: This is the starting of my Global Campaign: Holistic Living; this is the first of my Monthly "Holistic corrective Tips"

I will continue to place them in the same kind health And Fitness; Nutrition

I am happy to take feedback from any of my articles and invite all to print and share these with those who they feel need some inspiration and encouragement.

restorative Tips 101 - For Holistic Living

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Senior Living Communities - Where Does Mom's Rent Go?

Retirement communities seem like a great idea on the surface: like a cruise ship for seniors. Collective opportunities, wellness opportunities, fine dining, extra holiday functions, maintenance services, housekeeping; some have nurse stations, and some have full time Lvn's rehearse a picture of faultless care just waiting to put it's arms nearby your aging parent.

You and your parent tour a facility. The habitancy are so nice. The place looks like a fine hotel. Everyone is so happy to see you. It must be heaven. Oops, trying to avoid that! But as the last stop on route, except of procedure for some of you, not a bad place to hang your silk scarf, and withhold hose.

"That beautiful apartment is how much?" ,000 dollars a month..."and up!!!!????" You swallow. Subtle, but hard. Your parent imagines friends,fun, privilege, bridge players, and chocolate. So where does your rent go? I will give you a hint: it is not dining services, or housekeeping, or maintenance, or capital improvements of condition care, or activities. In many upscale senior living communities, you may be surprised to discover that over 40-50% of the operational dollars go to marketing and not to services that directly benefit your parent.

The infer is simple, senior residents move into these communities when they have an mean of 5 years left to live. Sad, but factual. So possible in all "retirement communities" is alot of resident turnover, even when residents are content within their community. Just imagine the numbers, when the residents are not content.

When a resident dies, an apartment becomes empty, and corporate revenues shrink. Some corporations have silent partners (investors), who do not appreciate declines in occupancy levels. Less occupants, less profits. So a enormous amount of your rent dollars are spent attracting a continual stream of new residents. 40-50% of the annual allocation at the property level is spent on marketing, and the recruitment of time to come residents. There is even greater turnover, of course, when the services are so-so. I was given .40 per someone per meal, based on two meals per day in one such upscale seclusion society in La Jolla California, as recently as 2007. Marketing first, nutrition? Somewhere much farther down the list.

The caretaking mission represented by these corporations is unquestionably not their mission. Profit, not people, again is the mission. The mission of most of these communities is Not to keep your parents content with cruise ship five star services, no matter what they say to you, while your "free" marketing tour and lunch. The corporate mission is to keep the construction full, originate large revenues, make enormous profits,purchase more properties, turn them in to more goldmines. Oh, the hours spent in departmental leadership meetings, working on the shape of the spin.

Until late 2007, I functioned as the Dietary Director for one such "for-profit" corporation. This Carlsbad company, proudly announced, at the 2006 dietary seminar for all dietary directors, that they made a Net profit of million dollars with their 23 properties nationwide. More shocking is the fact that some of their properties went much of the year below full occupancy. You can just imagine the profit at full occupancy. Al ot of profit for a enterprise that on my campus, face of dining services, had a lot of resident turnover, unhappiness with other services, and four menagerial director turnovers in two years! It is only about occupancy folks. The rest is marketing.

I am not alone in my comprehension of just how senior living communities operate. But, habitancy on the inside of the industry, do not speak up because: they are care-givers, and need these jobs. Some, like me, come to be disillusioned care-givers, and leave the industry. Find the honest broker on your marketing tour, and call them later for a personal chat. They will tell you. Most workers, and local property leadership in these associates are disillusioned too. Or they have darker motives for staying in silence.

There are many things I discovered in my tenures, that have turned me off to seclusion communities as a viable time to come choice for aging adults. I have not even touched on the mean direct care-giver to resident ratios of 1 to 20 :at the very best. This ratio is at the very root of the problem. Try caring for twenty parents with two hundred challenges daily per parent, and you will get the picture. The cloth just does not stretch to cover the need.

Higher corporate costs drive operational changes that should concern adult children seeking quality residential solutions to caring for their aging parents. I do not believe that all upscale seclusion communities unquestionably fulfill their care giving promises: and today there are a lot of other alternatives you should also consider.For this much rent ( and more), similar services, are offered for this inclusive price: you should, and do expect five star level housekeeping, fine dining faultless with extra holiday programming; wellness programs that focus on fall prevention, strength training, and equilibrium education for your parent; maintenance (toilets do have their problems, so do air conditioners/heaters, elevators).

If you are still considering an upscale independent living society of 100 to 500 occupants, consider this: every year, you can expect a cost of living growth of 5-9 % in these communities: either you like it or not. And trust me, the corporation can all the time defend the reasons for the increase. You will have only the choice to pay or move.

Are independent living communities unquestionably full of independent living seniors? seclusion communities usually bill themselves as housing for independent living residents: those with minimal mobility and functionality issues. But in the last twelve years, I have seen less truly independent residents, and more very dependent, borderline assisted living or early dementia type residents move in. The corporation is motivated naturally by the drive to keep the place full. This creates a great interrogate on assistance personnel, often untrained. If your parent is very independent, it can be depressing. Your high functioning parent may be seated in the dining room, at dinner, with someone with incontinence issues. Or worse.

So before you sign that rental agreement, remember what I have shared with you : current and time to come residents are hunted permanently by full time marketing habitancy to keep the construction full. We had 140 residents, and two full time marketers: they were each required to make 50 phone call contacts each day to "prospects". Be comfortable but observant, when taking a marketing tour of a community: discover the care giving ratio; study the interaction of the residents with each other, and with group heads, peak into menagerial offices, talk with the maintenance director and the dietary director about the challenges of their positions. Call them later to ask about what they didn't say. Find out about the property's budget: anyway you can. Look at the food served; tour the kitchen, look in those walk-ins. Fresh, homemade preparations or commercial preparations? Sit down at lunch with a random group, and not of the marketer's choosing. all the time try to take an 'unplanned' tour, to get the most honest insight.

In conclusion, you may get more services, of a great quality, in smaller board and cares, than you will in large seclusion communities. seclusion communities do have a huge socialization advantage: a lot more prospective playmates for your parents. But they are not for everybody. Make sure to take an commerce savvy pro along with you while you are touring, and examining what you unquestionably Are getting for your rent.

Senior Living Communities - Where Does Mom's Rent Go?

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