New Year's Resolutions: Make Goals to Enhance Your Mobility
Setting Mobility Goals for the New Year
2025 is here! With the beginning of a new year comes the opportunity for new resolutions and goals. Whether you’ve got a list a mile long of intentions you hope to meet or haven’t put much thought into it, consider putting health and mobility at the forefront. With a bit of support and guidance, the new and improved mobile you is attainable.
Why Mobility Goals Matter for Long-Term Health
According to the National Institute on Aging, a lack of physical activity can make it more likely for a person to experience a loss in mobility. Sedentarism, particularly as a result of a fall or hospitalization, can interfere with healthy aging and can even lead to poor quality of life. To combat potential mobility issues, it’s important that you sustain physical activity and take a stand against sedentarism by receiving the support you need to achieve success.
At 101 Mobility, we want you to live as independently as possible. By practicing physical therapy and daily best practices to preserve your health, you can prevent injuries such as falls and enhance your autonomy to enjoy the things you love. Learn more from our team about ways you can reach your 2025 goals and achieve a healthier you.
At Home Physical Therapy for Seniors: Goal Examples to Enhance Mobility
When it comes to improving your physical abilities, a little effort goes a long way. With guidance from your doctor or a physical therapist, you can set goals that will help you enhance your mobility. These goals may include the following:
- Improve Balance: Balance helps reduce falls and potential injuries. To improve balance, practice mobility enhancement exercises such as a 30-second single-leg stand or a sit-to-stand exercise.
- Increase Flexibility: Flexibility keeps you limber and helps you avoid stiffness throughout the body. Simply stretching for 10 minutes a day can improve joint mobility.
- Strength Training: Unsteadiness or weakness can keep you from being active. To stay strong and increase muscle mass, consider incorporating light resistance exercises three times a week.
- Functional Mobility: Remaining as independent as possible helps keep your mind and body active. Even walking unassisted for a set distance or duration supports functional movement goals.
How to Write Physical Therapy Goals for 2025
If you’re looking for inspiration on how to write physical therapy goals, don’t worry, you’re not alone. It can be tricky to know how to organize and plan out goals that are meaningful and obtainable.
Get started with some suggestions from the 101 Mobility team.
- Be Specific: Clarity is important. Define clear, measurable objectives that align with your abilities (e.g., “climb stairs without assistance”).
- Set Realistic Timeframes: Don’t overestimate or underestimate yourself. Establish realistic short-term and long-term milestones that give you confidence and the belief that you can achieve them.
- Track Progress: Keep yourself accountable and encouraged by tracking your progress. Whether you prefer tangible notebooks or mobile apps, find what works for you to monitor strength and flexibility targets.
- Consult Professionals: Before setting goals, always be sure to ask professional doctors and therapists for personalized therapy plans. Their expertise will enable you to set achievable targets.
Products and Services to Support Mobility Goals
At 101 Mobility, we’re here to help you achieve your goals. We offer products designed with your safety and comfort in mind, and we can provide you with essential tools to help you thrive.
- Stairlifts and Ramps: Don’t let stairs or ramps hold you back. Make your home or business fully accessible with our stairlifts and ramps. Our diverse range of products, from curved stairlifts to aluminum modular ramps, help you navigate curbs, stairs, corners, and any other obstacles to keep you moving forward.
- Platform Lifts: Safety and accessibility are possible with our secure platform lifts. An alternative to traditional elevators or ramps, these lifts are available for outdoor or indoor use and feature vertical platform lifts (VPLs) and inclined platform lifts (IPLs). They are ideal for homes or businesses with space restrictions.
- Bathroom Safety Products: The bathroom can be a hazardous place. From grab bars to whole bathroom renovations, we can enhance your bathroom’s safety with our personalized safety products. Each product is designed with thoughtful features to offer stability and confidence.
Curious to see more? Check out our full range of products!
Tips for Staying Motivated and Consistent
While it can be easy to fall behind your New Year’s resolutions, we encourage you to keep going and keep striving for success. Maintain momentum by following these strategies!
- Celebrate Small Wins: Acknowledge your progress regularly. Even if you don’t accomplish your goals right away, celebrate small victories.
- Involve Family and Friends: Create accountability by involving your family and friends, encouraging them to remind you to follow your goals.
- Adjust as Needed: If conditions change or your mobility improves, modify your goals to fit your needs.
Looking for additional resources to help you on your mobility journey? Explore our blog for tips on aging in place, caregiver support, and more.
Let’s Achieve Your Mobility Improvement Goals Together
Make 2025 a year full of aging-in-place improvements and rehabilitation goal-setting. Our experts at 101 Mobility can help determine which products and services will support your New Year’s health resolutions. Together, we can work toward improved mobility and accessibility. Find your closest 101 Mobility location today and schedule a consultation with our team.
