Elevate™ Wellness
Live Life by Design™
Wellness: A holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit.
What is Elevate Wellness?
Elevate is a wellness program that helps residents thrive in body, mind, and spirit. This multi-dimensional program is based on the belief that no matter what your current physical, emotional, or mental state, you can achieve a high level of well-being by participating in activities that engage all facets of the person. Elevate gets to know each person, so we can build programs that keep each resident well so they can live their best life.
Elevate. Holistic Wellness: Healthy Body Healthy Mind Healthy Spirit
Healthy Body
The key components for a healthy body are:
Elevate delivers a robust fitness program with a wide variety of classes, equipment, amenities, and outings for residents to get or stay strong, to work on cardiovascular health, balance, flexibility and more. Having a strong body is key to maintaining a high level of independence and to continuing to do the things you love.
Elevate communities offer high-quality food and healthy menu choices for residents along with dieticians and nutritionists on site to provide education around healthy eating.
Sleep is a cornerstone of good health and Elevate encourages high-quality sleep through lectures, programming, mindful-based activities, stress reduction, as well as intentional lighting and temperature controls, and sound reduction.
Healthy Mind
The key components for a healthy mind are:
Physical activity is important for brain health by keeping strong blood flow, the release of “happy hormones”, weight control and more—all things that keep the mind healthy and thriving. Elevate features mind/body modalities such as tai chi, dual task exercises and yoga that are good for the body and the mind.
Elevate provides a wide range of puzzles and games, such as word puzzles, jig-saw puzzles, mind teasers, board and card games, trivia contests, physical games such as pickleball and water volleyball and more to challenge the brain and in some cases, work the body at the same time. Friendly competition and play are known to be contributors to a healthy brain.
Elevate includes lectures and seminars on and off-site on a wide array of topics that encourage lifelong learning and foster passion in diverse areas of interests.
Elevate provides opportunities and encourages residents to continue challenging their minds through work and volunteerism creating a sense of importance, accomplishment, and contribution.
Healthy Spirit
The key components for a healthy Spirit are:
Elevate helps residents find meaning and purpose by creating a personal profile to understand each resident – such as their life accomplishments and goals. It then works alongside residents as a Life Coach to create a personalized plan to uncover goals and to create opportunities for meaning and purpose in their day to day lives.
Elevate is built around many opportunities for participation in clubs, programs, outings, special interest groups, mealtimes, social gatherings and more that help residents connect with one another and form strong social bonds. Certus Living participating Elevate communities are set up with spaces that encourage gathering.
Elevate helps residents build resiliency to face hard times through coaching, mentoring, therapy, support groups, celebrating achievements, and more.
Elevate offers programs for giving back to the community and the larger surrounding community which provides residents the chance to help those in need and to care for those around them.
Elevate encourages time in nature for the many benefits of being outdoors such as physical exercise, connecting to nature on a spiritual level, caring for the environment and more. Communities have outdoor spaces that are designed to encourage time outdoors in the natural environment.
Elevate features mind / body components that help residents work towards peace in their lives through meditation, yoga, tai chi and more.
Elevate offers both traditional faith and non-faith based spiritual activities that help residents connect with something beyond themselves which is shown to be important in developing a healthy spirit.