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COVID-19 Safety
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COVID-19 Updates
As we have done throughout the pandemic, we have been balancing our efforts to keep the virus out of our buildings while maintaining the health and wellness of our residents which goes beyond just sheltering in place.
Below you will find an update on the latest guidance from both the Department of Public Health (DPH) as well as Governor Kemp. We will continue scheduled in person visits for residents and loved ones in specially designed, large annex rooms as the weather cools. These rooms are specially equipped with top of the line air filtrations and surface cleaning technologies. That said, as the weather permits, outside visits are still the preferred option for visits.
Here are the most important guidelines to know if you are visiting our community:
- We will offer visitation time slots separated by at least 15-minute cleaning buffers
- There will be a limit on the number of visitors allowed in the room as dictated by square footage
- All visitors who intend to have an indoor visit are recommended to obtain regular COVID tests
- All visitors will be screened prior to entering the building and will be required to wear a mask at all times
- Masks are required to be worn at all times.
- Everyone must be screened with questions and a temperature check.
- Please wash your hands frequently and use hand sanitizer.
- Always maintain social distancing of at least six feet.
Stay home if you have any of these symptoms: Fever, Chills, Cough, Shortness of Breath or Difficulty Breathing, Fatigue, Muscle or Body Aches, Headache, New Loss of Taste or Smell, Sore Throat, Congestion or Runny Nose, Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhea or other new signs of illness.
Visitation Guidelines
Read the latest Georgia Department of Public Health Guidelines here.
Based on this new guidance, beginning November 2nd, Sterling Estates of West Cobb will start scheduling indoor visitations from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nearly all visitation will be during these hours unless prearranged in coordination with our management team. If circumstances change, obviously visitation guidelines in specific areas may change quickly as well. Please reach out to the community directly regarding how to best schedule these visits.
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Wellness & Activities
Wellness & Activities That Keep You Engaged
At Sterling Estates, our group and individual fitness programs promote wellness of body, mind, and spirit. They’re great for healthy seniors and some are suitable for those requiring assistance.
You can choose from a wide range of wellness activities, such as Sittersize Seated Chair Aerobics, Chair Yoga, Dance Fitness, Water Aerobics, and much more. We also offer the BioDex Challenge, 15- to 20-minute personalized sessions help increase control and balance, and Dakim Brain Fitness, 30-minute sessions that engage you in an easy-to-use, personalized mental workout on a regular basis.
In addition to complete wellness programming, at Sterling Estates we offer a variety of activities and resources that keep you engaged socially and improve your physical and mental well being.
Through our activities program, you’ll stay social throughout the day. Whether you’re gathering with friends at meals, listening to educational speakers, catching live music or performances, or hanging out at parties or happy hours, Sterling Estates is all about keeping you engaged. You’ll also take trips to cultural events, such as plays, symphonies, and museums.
We can’t stop the aging process, but we can try our best to slow it down!
Wellness Activities
A Holistic Approach to Wellness
At Sterling Estates, we give you the support you need to keep your active retirement active.
It takes hope and determination to actively engage in a personalized 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 Estates 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. Our 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 Programs
Our group and individual fitness programs promote wellness of body, mind, and spirit. They’re great for healthy seniors and some are suitable for those requiring assistance.
Sittersize: Selected 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
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 wellbeing
- Helps people with:
- Hypertension
- Anxiety
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Arthritis
- Vertigo
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
Dance Fitness
This 60-minute, seated aerobics class to the beat of music from the 50s and on uses multiple types of equipment to encourage movement.
Benefits include:
- 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/Strength Building
This 30-minute class helps 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 Challenge
These 15-20 minute personalized sessions help increase control and balance.
Each 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
With the interactive use of a touchscreen computer, our Dakim Brain Fitness Program, featuring daily, 30-minute sessions, 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 wellbeing
- Help Delay or Reverse Dementia illnesses
If you’d like more information about the Dakim Brain Fitness Program, please download this brochure here.
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 (678) 946-4454.
