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News - Alamance Regional Med Center, Burlington North Carolina USA |
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| Alamance Regional Med Center |
| New multi-purpose Wellness Center to benefit patients and residents |
| Date : - 22/07/2008 |
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A new 9,000 square-foot wellness facility is in the works at the county’s premier retirement community. A groundbreaking will be held Wednesday, July 23 at 3 p.m. for a new Wellness Center at The Village at Brookwood retirement community in Burlington.
The Village at Brookwood opened to residents in 2003 and is the first hospital-sponsored Continuing Care Retirement Community in the Triad. This expansion on the 50 acre campus will offer residents a comprehensive exercise facility. Features will include a swimming pool, hot tub, group exercise room, exercise equipment, a massage therapy space, and shower and locker areas.
“We strive to provide a healthy environment for our residents.” says Dan Cuthriell, executive director, The Village at Brookwood. “This new facility will allow us to expand all of our wellness programs and give our residents the tools they’re asking for.” Cuthriell adds.
Due to the retirement community’s unique partnership with Alamance Regional, the new wellness center will also prove beneficial for the hospital’s rehabilitation patients. “The swimming pool will allow us to offer rehabilitation patients from both the Village and Alamance Regional an aquatic therapy program,” says Lisa Pennington, director of Alamance Regional Medical Center’s Rehabilitation, LifeStyle and Employer Services. “Aquatic therapy is a great way to help patients that cannot initially tolerate land-based exercise or activities.”
The LifeStyle Center of Alamance Regional will also use the pool at the Wellness Center to offer water aerobics and arthritis specific aquatic exercise for both residents and non-residents. In addition, water exercise classes are planned for expectant and new mothers.
** 2008-09-22 ( Health Day News )
** Caregivers Face Multiple Strains Tending Older
Parents **
Middle-aged adults who regularly help their elderly parents get by experience a drop in health and well-being in their own lives, a new study shows.
The study, published earlier this year in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, found these adult children were often juggling multiple roles each day, sometimes causing conflicts in roles or feeling overloaded.
"The accumulation of small and large daily stressors such as work deadlines, PTA meetings, supporting family and friends as well as providing routine assistance to a parent living outside one's house can build up," study leader Jyoti Savla, assistant professor of human development and gerontology at Virginia Tech, said in a university news release. "Sooner or later, they can spill over into other areas of life with negative mental and physical consequences. Days when help is provided to parents are more stressful than days when it is not," Savla said.
Salva's team studied diaries of the individuals who provided help to parents, more than half of which did so on two or more days each week. They found several factors, such as having a spouse and higher education, could decrease the conflict and demands on time. Also, those who believed in personal growth, mastery and self-acceptance experienced fewer negative consequences from helping their parents.
"By building on an understanding of individual's experiences, this approach could make daily life easier for older adults and the individuals who support them and prevent the depletion of care resources," Savla said.
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