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Our approach is based on a whole person-centered wellness program. ERT helps elders and everyone to take a more inclusive, fun and pro-active role in their wellness and healing.
I believe that our elders and everyone who takes a closer look at and adopts some of the systematic and planned interventions, will experience meaningful and positive changes in their quality of life. The interventions are designed and tested in the practice of "Clinical Therapeutic Recreation For Elders" , a profession that did not exist prior to my work with ERT.
ERT clinical interventions and programs are designed to better communities and individuals. These interventions nurture communities of place and facilitate communities of interest to better; cognitive conditional responses, social integration, self-esteem, self-eficacy, psychosocial adaptation, motor coordination, healthier brains, multiplication of new brain cells and connections, physical activity and awareness of their bodies, perception and sensory stimulation, nurture the spiritual body and minds.
This meaningful concept can be adopted by everyone who wants to enjoy a better health. I have tested it with elders in institutional settings; Independent Living, Assisted Living, Long-Term-Care Settings, Group Homes, Dementia-Alzheimer's Units and Community Centers with elder programs.
ERT provides and hopes to inspire education, guidance, support and better ways to; deliver services for elders, listen to elders and other community members about what their bodies, minds and spirits are communicating. ERT is also about the use of the "Journal For A Better Life" that each individual develops. This is a wonderful way of making gradual better lifestyle changes taking into account individual wellness and health issues.
ERT and BWCA, Better World Community Adventures are very important components of the services that WEL, World Elder Land provides.
Everyone is invited to co-create together a better world where elders are better cared for and actively included as valuable members of our communities. As one of our elders recently said during a talk about happiness and its relation to health, "It is foolish not to be happy." ERT better ways is an invitation to nurture and share a happy, meaningful and inclusive world for our elders and everyone, including animals and nature.
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ABOUT FINDING YOURSELF, LIFE IS ABOUT CREATING YOURSELF. G. B. SHAW * * * * * TELL ME AND I WILL FORGET, SHOW ME AND I WILL REMEMBER. INVOLVE ME AND I WILL UNDERSTAND. CONFUCIOUS * * * * * * THE NEGATIVISM AND UNHAPPINESS OF HUMAN SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED ON A COLOSSAL SCALE BY THOSE WHO BENEFIT FROM THEM. |
ERT VISION: A MEANINGFUL INCLUSIVE AND FUN RECREATION PROGRAM FOR ELDERS When you visit a community program that is meaningful, inclusive and fun, it can look like this: You see that everyone is having the opportunity to CHOSE programs of INTEREST to themselves. The staff are happy to be there and their smiles and level of engagement show it. Hearts communicating with hearts.Everyone helps FACILITATE meaningful INTERGENERATIONAL relations. Integration, CREATIVITY and constant OPEN COMMUNICATION is encouraged. A FUN and pleasant environment that ENCOURAGES CREATIVITY, promotes DIVERSITY and NURTURES BETTER WAYS in COLLABORATIONS for a better quality of life for everyone; elders, caregivers, volunteers, vendors, nature and animals. Nature and animals are present and INCLUDED in the environment as our extended bodies. Nature and animals are treated with respect. HAPPINESS and GRATEFULNESS are also important components of this community lifestyle. The more we focus on it, practice it and talk about it, the more will flourish in our communities. Everyone feels WELCOME and part of a positive COMMUNITY where testing, planning, implementing and evaluating BETTER WAYS, again and again, is matter of fact for everyone in this INCLUSIVE and FUN community. The way we choose to INVEST OUR TIME to nurture our WHOLISTIC WELLNESS lifestyle, more joy and health will surround us. How divine! |
ERT VISION: A MEANINGFUL, INCLUSIVE AND FUN RECREATION PROGRAM FOR ELDERS EXAMPLES OF SEASONAL PROGRAMS FOR ELDERS AND ITS BENEFITS INTERGENERATIONAL GATHERINGS - SOCIAL INTEGRATION ERT, WHOLE-PERSON-CENTERED WELLNESS PROGRAM FOR ELDERS ERT AND THE "JOURNAL FOR A BETTER LIFE" ERT, HAPPINESS AND ITS RELATION WITH HEALTH CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC RECREATION FOR ELDERS. TALK AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY THERAPEUTIC RECREATION FOR ELDERS, AN OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT BOARD MEMBER OF THE ACTIVITIES ADAPTATION AND AGING JOURNAL SENSORY AND COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS PHOTO COLLAGES OF WELLNESS PROGRAMS FOR ELDERS COLOR THERAPY TOUCH THERAPY: MESSAGES TO THE BRAIN AND THE MIND FOOD AND MOODS - THE BODY-MIND CONNECTION AGAIN WHAT WORKS BETTER FOR YOU?
NEWSLETTER - "The WEL Community" EDUCATION PROGRAMS - INSERVICES ELDER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
NOMINATE AN ELDER PROGRAM... LET'S US KNOW ABOUT AN ELDER THAT CAN BE AN EXAMPLE OF BETTER WAYS TO LIVE, TO CONTRIBUTE AND NURTURE WELLNESS FOR A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE.
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