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5 Mood Boosters for Dealing With the Pandemic Blues
With the pandemic keeping many at-risk seniors indoors, creating a space that helps them feel their best is key for keeping their spirits high. By incorporating some simple mood boosters into their everyday routine, your senior loved one can better navigate their time inside and overcome the pandemic blues. Ways To Boost the Mood of Seniors Stuck Inside
senior with their favorite colors can lift their spirits tremendously. Such colors can be added in furniture pieces, artwork, curtains and drapes, bed sheets, and more.
The following small changes can make a big difference in positively boosting a senior’s day. 1. Brighten their space with fresh flowers and plants. Beautiful, bright, and blooming, fresh flowers are go-to pick-me-ups. But if seniors are looking for something more long term, the act of taking care of plants and watching them grow can be uplifting in and of itself. Additionally, plants hung in open windows can welcome extra light and fresh air into a space, which can be a mood booster as well. However, if your senior has any existing plant or outdoor allergies, or if they simply lack a green thumb, artificial flowers and plants are great alternatives and can offer the same bene-
sounds that can play in the back2. Keep them calm ground as seniors with an oil diffuser go about their day. or scented candle. For example, with Aromatherapy uses sounds of waves oils and scents to crashing on the promote well-beshore, seniors can ing. With just a few envision visiting drops of essential the beach. Or, with oils in an oil difechoes of chirping fuser or a scented birds and rustling candle, seniors can trees, seniors can fill their space with feel as if they’re out their favorite scents in nature. If paired to create a spa-like with a diffuser or experience right at candle, the sounds home. Some difand scents will cerfusers also have tainly transport seunique light setniors to a new and tings, which make exotic environment for an added mood all from the comfort booster. of home.
5. Display their favorite photos. Perhaps one of the best ways to put a smile on your senior’s face and make their living space feel more comforting is by showcasing their favorite photos and cherished memories of loved ones. Whether they’re hung on a wall, pinned to the refrigerator, propped up on a nightstand, or rotating on a digital picture frame, memorable moments captured in time will always be uplifting to see.
3. Use a sound machine to create an escape to new and different locations. While sound machines vary, many offer soothing
Overcoming the pandemic blues goes beyond creating a happy living space.
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4. Fill the room with colors that will enhance their mood. While vibrant colors can brighten any room, surrounding your
