LIVE WELL (Cont.)
Finding Your Circle of Seniors As adults get older, the opportunity to make new friends tends to become increasingly more difficult. Afterall, devoting years to their careers or establishing a family can force many adults to put their friendships on the backburner. By the time they are ready to forge new friendships, they often forget how. Fortunately, there are several ways to help seniors navigate the social awkwardness of building a new circle of friends.
ods you previously used will likely help you make friends now. For example, introducing yourself to your neighbors when moving to a new place is a customary and polite first step. When moving into a senior living community, don’t be If you are an older afraid to make the adult transitioning rounds and get to into an assisted know your fellow living community, residents. here are some tips on how to find se- Start a Convernior friends. sation With a Revisit Past Friend-Building Tactics A great way to expand your circle of friends is to think about how you made friends in the past. In truth, many of the meth-
Stranger Finding senior friends is all about putting yourself in close proximity to other people. Therefore, if you eat in a communal dining area during your mealtimes,
you will not only be giving yourself the opportunity to talk to new people, but you will also already have one conversation topic to work off of. Furthermore, the best part is that you will likely come to find that you have more in common don’t sit by yourself. Before you sit than just that inidown, look around tial shared interest. the room. If there Helping Seniors is an open seat near someone, con- Find a Community sider asking if you of Friends At Encore at Avacan sit there and spark up a conver- lon Park, we recsation over dinner. ognize how important an active You may quickly find yourself with and vibrant social a new permanent life is to the seniors in our lives. dining partner. In addition to proJoin a Club to Find viding our senior residents with Senior Friends One of the easiest comfortable acways to make new commodations and healthy meals, our friends is to find a group of people community’s carwho appreciate an ing staff prioritizes recreational and activity you like. For example, if you social activities enjoy knitting, try that will help seto find out if your niors engage with senior living com- others, foster new munity has a knit- relationships, and build their circles ting club or recof friends through ommend starting one. By doing this, activities and events.
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