Life Enrichment Philosophy
The Primrose Life Enrichment philosophy is lived out in a four-pronged approach:
- Lifelong Learning Mindset – We are passionate about providing an environment that supports continuous learning at any age. That’s why we developed Primrose Senior University for our Kansas City independent living and assisted living community.
- Signature Engagement Programming with Full-Time Staff – Our focus is on Intentional Engagements, which facilitate lasting connections. Our full-time Life Enrichment Coordinators utilize support from our Home Office and ideas from other Primrose communities. What’s more, they incorporate the interests and preferences of our independent living and assisted living residents to build tailored programs.
- Wellness Wheel Model – Our Wellness Wheel ensures that our programming includes areas that engage the whole person. We utilize the Six Dimensions of Wellness as the standard by which we measure our monthly programming in our Kansas City independent living community.
- Family Connections – Primrose uses specialized software that creates greater family connection and communication. This complimentary tool helps our staff capture special moments to share with family and friends. At the same time, it optimizes resident-focused care for our assisted living community.
Contact us to visit our community during an activity and see why our residents say, “This is living!”
Signature Engagement with a Lifelong Learning Mindset
Primrose Senior University (PSU) held its first class in 2018. Since that time, thousands of Primrose independent living and assisted living residents have learned together. They laugh and create in our programs. Our Kansas City independent living residents have lived purposeful lives filled with unique experiences. They represent the epitome of what we call Lifelong Learners.
We commit to enriching and engaging the daily lives of our independent living residents. Every Primrose community offers opportunities to learn and create. Residents share experiences and discuss new topics together. Moreover, they recall past events while learning new things. This happens in our Kansas City independent living environment.
Our residents choose how much or how often they participate. Our staff facilitates classes that create strong feelings of purpose and belonging. In addition, these programs improve quality of life. They also enhance self-worth and confidence for our independent living and assisted living community members.
Wellness Wheel Model
Providing a variety of programming reflective our each of our resident’s interests is best achieved by offering a wide variety of programming based on our Six Dimensions of Wellness.
- Purposeful – We create opportunities that connect our independent living residents back to the community. This includes offering opportunities to volunteer and mentor. Sewing or knitting clubs, gardening, and flower arranging are popular activities. Intergenerational opportunities represent only a few samples of what you may see. You’ll find these on our Kansas City independent living calendars.
- Emotional – This dimension of wellness stimulates the senses. It moves us at a deeper level. Activities may include musical opportunities, pet visits, poetry and painting, and book clubs. Furthermore, we offer virtual travel experiences, baking, and reminiscent groups. Additional options include penning the past, genealogy, and study groups. These serve our independent living and assisted living residents.
- Physical – Keeping our bodies working at optimum levels is best achieved through a variety of exercises and games that include stretch, balance, yoga, and cardio classes. All exercises can be completed seated or standing based on the resident’s preference.
- Spiritual – Spiritual wellness is a connection to something bigger than ourselves through traditional faith practices, personal beliefs or principles. Primrose offers many opportunities to keep your spiritual connection intact through worship services, bible studies, prayer or meditation groups, yoga, music, and even nature outings.
- Intellectual – This aspect of programming always has the element of learning something new. Our PSU classes, lunch and learn events, documentaries, foreign languages, study clubs, visits to museums, and church history tours are a few of the ways we promote Lifelong Learning.
- Social – Connecting with peers is important and Primrose offers multiple opportunities daily where our residents can enjoy each other’s company. Gathering for morning coffee, ice cream socials, happy hour, and live music are a few of the more popular events. Tailgating, birthdays or other annual celebrations, and board or card games are a few more additional social interactions that are available in our community.
Technology Partners for Senior Wellness and Connection
TSOLife: Connection & Engagement
Primrose understands the importance of staying connected, and to assist our families and residents in maintaining this connection, Primrose has partnered with TSOLife, an innovative life enrichment platform. Through a scripted interview process, our Life Enrichment teams are provided with a fully faceted resident profile and additional AI generated resident insights. This complimentary service allows family access to our activity calendars and menu through a secure mobile app or desktop web portal. Families are able to view which programs their loved ones are engaging in as well as offer support and encouragement to become more active if that is their desire. TSOLife also provides a robust content library assisting our life enrichment and memory care leaders to create even more engaging programs for our residents.
Sprio100®: Wellness & Exercise
Primrose Retirement is proud to partner with Sprio100®, a state-of-the-art exercise and wellness resource for the Primrose Life Enrichment team. This virtual online resource gives on-demand access to educational workshops, customizable exercise programs, and live weekly workshops. All resources are designed specifically for older adults and offer fun, engaging, and accessible ways to stay physically active, no matter their fitness level while cultivating a supportive community of individuals who share similar health and fitness goals.
Coro Health®: Music & Faith
Another Life Enrichment program partner is Coro Health®. Their philosophy is care uses music and faith first, before traditional medical interventions, to improve health outcomes featuring music spanning decades. The programs are designed to aid digestion during meals, gently building momentum to wake up each day, singalongs for social gatherings, restful compilations for relaxation or sleep, and much more.