Assisted Living Wellness
We’re among the most proactive Active Adult Communities in Marietta, GA.
We give you the support you need to keep your active retirement in Marietta, GA, active.
Many of our Assisted Living residents are dealing with chronic conditions. Having our Sterling Way Wellness Center on campus enables our residents to partake in an exercise regime designed by our trained staff in concert with a personal physician, to lessen the negative impact of the specific condition. Many of our residents can attest to the value of our Sterling Strong Wellness activities. Both group and individual fitness programs listed below, promote wellness of body, mind, and spirit.
With over 25 years of experience caring for seniors, we believe our Sterling Way wellness programs effectively improve one’s physical and mental well-being. The Sterling staff is fully committed to helping all residents maintain their wellness by providing support, counsel, and professionally designing testing and training programs that help residents meet or exceed their wellness goals.
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Wellness Activities
Our group and individual fitness programs promote wellness of body, mind, and spirit. They’re great for healthy seniors; some are suitable for those requiring assistance. The Sterling staff is fully committed to helping residents maintain their wellness by providing support, counsel, and professionally designed testing and training programs that help them meet or exceed their wellness goals.
Sittersize: Seated Chair Aerobics
Seated chair exercises are designed to benefit someone who can’t withstand body weight on their joints. By sitting in a chair we eliminate any pounding on the joints. A light aerobic exercise is needed daily to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Chair aerobics helps to increase strength through light resistance exercises, increase mobility, and increase heart rate. Coupled with fun energetic music, Sittersize is great for anyone!
Can help those suffering from diabetes, and offers these benefits:
- Increases circulation
- Keeps ankle joints flexible
- Lubricates joints
- Increases mental alertness
- Improves balance
- Increases energy level
- Improves metabolism
- Increases joint flexibility and muscle strength
Chair Yoga: “Gentle Yoga”
Offers you the ability to improve your health without needing to stand. You are supported by a chair so you can receive yoga’s healing and restorative benefits that have been known for thousands of years. Yoga clients can learn many kinds of yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation, and ways of relaxation, with the aid of a chair.
Benefits:
- Relaxes your body and mind
- Improves musculoskeletal fitness
- Improves flexibility
- Elevates overall health and well-being
- Helps people with:
- Hypertension
- Anxiety
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Arthritis
- Vertigo
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
Dance Fitness
60-minute class
Seated aerobics class to the beat of music from the 50s and on. Uses multiple types of equipment to encourage movement.
Benefits:
- Increases circulation
- Keeps ankle joints flexible
- Lubricates joints
- Increases mental alertness
- Improves balance
- Increases energy level
- Improves metabolism
- Increases joint flexibility and muscle strength
Water Aerobics
Workout provides a cardiovascular burn with light resistance. Water provides resistance against the body preventing any of your joints from moving too quickly. The buoyancy of the water helps to support a portion of your weight, reducing the load on your joints. Exercising in water makes you feel about 90% lighter, and water produces 12 times the resistance of air on your body.
Ideal for those with: Arthritis, Back problems, foot and leg injuries, and knee conditions.
Benefits:
- Helps prevent hyperextension and repetitive stress injuries
- Reduces blood pressure
- Improves artery health
- Increases circulation
- Raises metabolism rate
Circuit Training and Strength Building (CTSB)
30-minute class
Helps to improve mobility, strength, flexibility, and balance for those who can exercise independently. Includes exercises that target improvements throughout your body.
Benefits:
- Balance
- Cardiovascular
- Lower and upper body strength
- Flexibility
BioDex Balance Challenge
15-20 minute personalized sessions
Helps to increase control and balance. Program is individualized to help with balance issues such as, vertigo, extreme supination or pronation, weak ankles, little to no proprioception, weight bearing, total lower extremity joint replacement rehab, plantar flexion & extension and much more.
Machine assesses balance and fall risk acuity, tracks progress and conducts progress notes of patients.
Benefits:
- Improved balance
- Improved walking
- Reduces fall risks
- Reduces need for walker
Dakim Brain Fitness Program
Daily, 30-minute sessions
With the interactive use of a touchscreen computer, our Dakim Brain Fitness Program engages our residents in an easy-to-use, personalized mental workout on a regular basis. The findings of Dakim’s peer-reviewed clinical trial, conducted by UCLA School of Medicine and published in the July 2013 issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, confirm Dakim BrainFitness produced significant improvements in memory, both immediate and delayed, and language abilities, as users strengthened attention, focus and concentration.
Benefits:
- Maintains or Improves Mental Acuity
- Improves Happiness and General Well-being
- Help Delay or Reverse Dementia illnesses
If you’d like more information about the Dakim Brain Fitness Program, please download this brochure here