Health and Wellness Programming
VIVA!
An Enthusiastic Celebration of Life!
Pathway’s signature, award-winning VIVA! lifestyle fosters purpose and offers a whole new way of aging healthfully and happily. VIVA! offers a wealth of opportunities to enrich lives through social, educational and spiritual pursuits, as well as the chance for people to share their skills, talents and passions with others through resident-led activities.
One large component of VIVA! at Victory Centre of Park Forest is health and wellness programming for both the mind and body.
Walking Club
Residents enjoy lovely walks around Victory Centre of Park Forest’s community and even head outdoors in good weather. Walkers get to socialize while enjoying the physical and mental benefits of brisk exercise and fresh air.
Music Therapy
A music therapist uses the many facets of music to improve Victory Centre residents’ overall health and wellbeing. Singing, playing an instrument, listening to music, moving to music and discussing music all have the power to actively engage and lift one’s spirits. Studies show that the healing affects of music can help people manage stress, reduce pain, enhance memory, improve communication, encourage emotional expression and further physical rehabilitation.
Arthritis Support Group
Arthritis is the leading cause of disability for those over age 65. Victory Centre residents, who have arthritis and don’t want to let it hold them back, get together to discuss life, medicine, exercise, surgery, and to offer each other support.
Health Chats
Health care professionals from Wellness Health Partners give regular “Health Chats” on a variety of health and wellness topics. Residents say that the talks inspire better eating, more physical activity and less stressful living.
VIVA! Plus
Partnering with the best, VIVA! Plus provides truly integrated, patient-centered care
Pathway’s VIVA! Plus program brings together an impressive group of third-party healthcare partners to give residents access to high-quality, coordinated medical and behavioral care options—all conveniently delivered in the privacy and comfort of residents’ own homes.
Takes VIVA! and healthy living one step further helping residents live well and recover more quickly
Physicians, pharmacists, home health nurses, physical and rehabilitation therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and hospice specialists all serve as an extension of the Pathway team. All providers are carefully selected for quality, share Pathway’s holistic VIVA! philosophy and work together to provide coordinated, seamless care. VIVA! Plus helps residents live well and recover more quickly when not well.
Your daily dose of confidence
For example, Victory Centre residents and families can take comfort in knowing that Pathway’s VIVA! Plus preferred medication management partner offers industry-leading accuracy rates and inspects all medication orders for contra-indications, interactions, duplications, toxicity, safety and efficacy.
Distributing and taking medications is made easy and convenient. Victory Centre resident’s medications arrive in specialty OnePAC pouches that are segmented for each resident by day and time of day and clearly labeled. This means that nursing staff can spend less time worrying about medications and more time caring for residents. Plus residents can take their medications with confidence and a sense of independence.
Better care means better outcomes
Not only is accessing care providers made simple, but the VIVA! Plus team results are outstanding. Working with our trusted healthcare partners, Pathway has reduced hospital 30-day readmissions by one third. Overall hospital admissions for Pathway residents are on the decline as well and so the number of falls and injuries from falls.