Building a strong routine in the springtime can help to provide daily structure for senior living in Knoxville, TN. Focus on building spring routines that you can transition into daily life when the spring ends, rather than needing to rebuild the routine after spring's gone. Focus on encouraging healthy senior habits through social engagement, physical activity, and cognitive engagement.
How do you use your routine to keep stress down in your life? According to Northwestern Medicine, routines can help reduce stress and anxiety. While this is true at all ages, it's particularly important for seniors.
Knoxville, TN, is the perfect city to focus on aging wellness and mental clarity. The first capital of Tennessee is lauded for our blend of Appalachian culture and our spot as a gateway to the Smoky Mountains. Whether you're here to see the Sunsphere, the Smokies, or our vibrant downtown districts, we're proud to have you.
How can your spring routines help you with mental clarity throughout your senior years? If you're curious about building a healthy routine, we're here to help. Read on for a brief overview of how routines can help you.
The first question many people wonder about is whether routines are truly useful. Do routines provide benefits, or is it just nice to be organized?
According to a study published in Sensors, daily routines help provide seniors with a grounding structure in their day. These routines will help to provide calm and comfort to seniors, while also helping to reduce stress and anxiety.
For senior living in Knoxville, TN, we like to focus on the basics for a routine. Your bedtime and meals should be structured out, even if nothing else is.
For your resting hours, try to go to sleep at the same time every night, or at least within an hour. Doing so will help your body get used to resting around the same time, cutting down on how much time you spend tossing and turning.
You also should have your main meals planned out at regular times. That way, your body knows when it has energy to spare, as well as helping to keep digestion regular.
Now that you know where to start, how can you customize your routine? While some things are true for all routines, it's best to work to make a routine that works for you.
Here at The Pointe at Lifespring, we like to focus on three main categories of activities for your routine. These include:
Here are our tips for designing your schedule.
As we age, some level of cognitive decline is inevitable. One of the ways you can limit such an experience and growing symptoms is to keep yourself mentally engaged. Thankfully, it's not hard to add cognitive exercises to your day.
Our first recommendation is to take time away from your screens, especially in the early morning. As mentioned by the Digital Wellness Institute, using your phone in the morning can cause anxiety and discomfort that lasts through the day.
We recommend that you instead focus on more "analog" methods of engaging your mind. These may include:
Experiment for a few weeks and see which best fits your routine. If you're set on using your phone, consider finding a few cognitively-enriching apps that you can enjoy instead of scrolling through the news.
How often do you see other people during your daily routine? Do you find it takes you too long in the mornings to begin interacting with and talking to people? Do you socialize too much?
Whatever the answer is, you must take time out of your day to interact with others. Humans are social creatures, and staying isolated may worsen your mood and anxiety.
Speak to the community members in your assisted living community. You should also see what sort of activities are available to you to add to your schedule. Doing both of these will help you see what you want to add to your day.
Your personal workouts are difficult to schedule in a general way. Instead, you should take stock of what sort of workouts you need to engage with.
Start by speaking to your community managers and staff to see what sort of workouts and wellness activities are supported. Here at The Pointe at Lifespring, our amenities include our Peake Fitness Center.
There, we provide everything you'll need to design the workout that your body would benefit most from. To discover that, speak to your doctor about designing a fitness regimen. Once that's been done, you can work to build your schedule around it.
The only routine changes that would be unsafe are usually changes to your medicine regimen. We strongly urge you to make no changes to your daily medicine and prescriptions without express permission from your doctor.
Otherwise, there are no common issues. However, you may find it disorienting at first if you're making major scheduling changes. While this isn't unsafe, it's still uncomfortable, so make changes in small batches instead of all at once.
Making the most out of your senior living in Knoxville, TN. means understanding how to build spring routines that encourage healthy senior habits. Take time to focus on social engagement and mental clarity, especially in the mornings. Speak to your doctor about what sort of physical workout would help most.
Here at The Pointe at Lifespring, we know there's more to your happiness than a strict schedule. We're part of the Discovery Senior Living family, which ranked first in the Customer Satisfaction Among Assisted Living & Memory Care Communities in the JD Power 2025 U.S. Senior Living Satisfaction Study.
Schedule a tour today to see how we can help your golden years glimmer!