Age does not mean that a person no longer has any value. In Coming of Age at the Focal Point: How Senior Centers Enhance Quality of Life for Older Adults, author, Dr. Althia Ellis, reveals the challenges that older adults face that can potentially compromise their quality of life. She offers solutions to help them prepare for and adapt to a changing lifestyle that can make them feel healthy, fulfilled, independent, and valued. Joining a senior center or participating in similar programs in their community is a great way for older adults to improve their social, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. The interactions and the relationships that are formed are invaluable.
Likewise, those who prepare as aggressively for their transportation security as they do for their financial security during retirement, stand a better chance of achieving the value of independence. Dr. Ellis encourages older adults to accept help from people they trust and who care about their well-being. More importantly, she believes older adults hold the key to a life of social, emotional, physical, and spiritual health; independence; and dignity. This is a must read for older adults and caregivers!