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Assisted Living Wellness
Our Marietta, GA, community gives you the tools and support you need to maintain holistic health.
Senior Wellness is the focus of the Sterling Way.
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. These Sterling Way fitness programs are an important part of our proactive, comprehensive resident care program we call Sterling Care.
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.
We have so much that we’d like to offer you at Sterling Estates of West Cobb, maybe it’s time to discuss. For more information, give us a call at 770-255-7000, or click here to contact us online.
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.
Sterling Wellness
- A staff that is dedicated to living a healthy lifestyle
- A personal Fitness trainer for hands-on, customized individual fitness programs
- SciFit Aerobic equipment and LifeFitness strengthening machines
- Water Therapy and Water Aerobics Classes
- Dance Fitness Classes
- Circuit Training Classes
- Chair Yoga
- Stretching and balance classes with our very own BioDex Balance Machine
- Fall risk assessments
- Indoor, heated saltwater pool
- Dakim Brain Fitness Program
- Beauty Salon, equipped with nail, pedicure stations, foot massage station (“Happy Feet”)
- Concierge: Chiropractor, massage therapist, podiatrist, PT/OT, acupuncturist, Estheticians, Audiologists, and all other outside health care professionals available
- Annual Fitness Fair
- Quarterly Wellness Testing Day
Creating Your Personal Sterling Way Wellness Plan
When a resident moves into our community, he or she is given a wellness evaluation by our in-house Wellness Director. The evaluation includes, but is not limited to: a Balance Assessment, Flexibility Tests, Gait Analysis, overall Health Review, and overall summarization of lifestyle goals.
After the initial assessment is complete, a personal wellness plan is created for and with the resident, whether it is starting with the basic activity classes above or one-on-one training to work toward a more specific goal, including:
- Walking
- Reduction of Parkinsonian syndrome symptoms
- Stroke recovery
- Post-surgical rehabilitation
- Strength
- Balance
The resident’s Wellness Plan is communicated to and reviewed by the resident’s physician if appropriate. If home health is the initial recommendation, our wellness director is in communication with the Physical/Occupational/Speech Therapist. When the insurance coverage lapses, there is a smooth transition from the home health therapy to our wellness program.
If overall strength and balance is the goal, our residents will start with the one-on-one sessions with the wellness director. After short-term goals are reached through the one-on-one sessions, integration into our group health and fitness classes and water aerobics program is recommended.
Residents who need general maintenance of strength and balance are recommended to start with our chair classes (Sittersize, Chair Yoga, Chair Tai Chi) as well as our Water Aerobics Class. Residents are frequently reassessed for short-term 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
Assisted Living Wellness
Our Marietta, GA, community gives you the tools and support you need to maintain holistic health.
Experience the Sterling Way to Maintain Optimal Wellness
It takes hope and determination to actively engage in a wellness program on a consistent basis, but the benefits are substantial and well-documented. Not only does it increase one’s longevity, but also one’s quality of life. You’re less prone to debilitating falls, heart and circulation issues and better able to handle stress and care for yourself. You’re less likely to develop dementia and more likely to stay engaged in physical, social, and intellectual pursuits. Simply said, you just feel and look better.
There’s nothing more important to us at Sterling than the health and wellbeing of our residents. With over 25 years of experience in caring for seniors, we believe our Sterling Way wellness programs are very effective, if followed, in improving your physical and mental wellbeing. 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.
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.
How to Get Started with a Wellness Plan
Dakim Brain fitness is a platform used to improve cognitive function/memory. We use this as a tool to help strengthen attention, focus and concentration and to improve overall memory. The program supports short term memory, long term memory, language, computation, visuospatial, and executive function.
Parkinson’s
We offer a weekly evidence-based fitness classes (Ohio Health Delay the Disease Program). The classes focus on increasing physical function and delaying the disease progression. In addition to the weekly classes, we offer 1 on 1 support focusing on symptom specific exercises. Focus Areas include rigidity (stiffness), Posture, Gait, Freezing, Depression and Voice Projection.
Cardiovascular Conditions
We offer personalized programs that supports chronic conditions such as Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, and other conditions. Our Program aims to help with rebuilding strength and stamina, relaxation techniques, adopting healthier habits, breathing techniques and cardiorespiratory classes.
Balance Issues/Fall Risk/Fractures/Range of Motion
Our balance and Fall Prevention program focuses on setting realistic goals to increase activity, change environment to reduce fall risk factors, and exercises to increase strength and balance. We also have the Biodex Balance System to assist with balance testing and training to help improve balance and increase agility.
Osteoporosis/Arthritis
Physical Activity is one of the best non-drug therapies for arthritis pain; we offer classes and 1 on 1 personal training in our heated saltwater therapy pool. Our programming consists of keeping joints flexible and easing stiffness, strengthening the muscles and joints to keep them stable, and improving bone strength.
Rehabilitation Programs
Our Wellness team is well equipped with Exercise Physiologist to assist and support with various other population specific conditions such as Vertigo, Muscular dystrophy, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Anxiety and more!Our well-rounded approach to wellness aims to support longevity and quality of life.
Learn More About Wellness Programs at Sterling Estates
We have so much that we’d like to offer you at Sterling Estates of West Cobb. Maybe it’s time to come in and discuss your particular health needs. It’s all part of a Sterling Life. Click here to contact us online or call 770-255-7000.
Independent Living Activities
Enjoy regular outings to plays, concerts, ballets, local restaurants, and sporting events. We take the hassles out of getting tickets and arranging the transportation; all you do is enjoy the events and outings with your many friends at Sterling Estates.
We also have regularly scheduled monthly “Events of Interest” at Sterling Estates. These events usually entail a guest speaker who explores topics of interest to our residents and prospective residents. Check out our Events page, here, to learn more.
View the photo gallery below for a quick peek at all the activities and events that Sterling Estates West Cobb has to offer—and then pay us a visit in person! Discover opportunities for new learning, new activities, and the chance to begin a new chapter of your life.
Assisted Living Activities
We offer a variety of programs, activities, and resources that keep one engaged socially and improves your physical and mental wellbeing. This includes daily exercise classes such as Tai Chi, seated and standing aerobic and strength classes, water aerobics, and Zumba.
We also offer the Dakim BrainFitness program, which engages residents in easy-to-use, personalized mental workouts on a regular basis. We stay very social throughout the day: we gather at mealtimes; and many activities, educational speakers, musical performances, parties, and happy hours, etc. We also take trips to cultural events; plays, symphonies and museums. We can’t stop the aging process, but we can try our best to slow it down!
Learn more about our events and more by checking out our Activities Calendar here.
View the photo gallery for a peek at all the ways to make the most of every day at Sterling Estates West Cobb. Discover opportunities for lifelong learning, fitness, friendship and fun, and then pay us a visit to see for yourself!
Learn More About All Sterling Estates Has to Offer
We encourage you to come meet our residents. Let them tell you all the reasons why you should join them in living the Sterling Life! We nurture your independence so you can enjoy the freedom of easy living with a full calendar of engaging activities to fill your leisure time.
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