Nourishing News - October 2021

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – OCTOBER 2021

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Connecting through the Shared Love of Food

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SYSCO SPECIAL EVENT MENUS

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SYNERGY TECH SUITE RECIPES

Pumpkin Black Bean Soup Courtesy of Synergy Tech Suite Serving Size: 180 ml Yield: 50 Ingredients: 400 ml onions, red, diced 30 ml garlic, minced 40 ml cumin powder 10 ml salt 10 ml cinnamon, ground 10 ml allspice, ground 10 ml black pepper, ground 200 ml olive oil 3 L black beans, canned, drained 1.5 L pumpkin, canned 1.5 L tomato, stewed, diced 3 L vegetable broth Preparation: 1. In a large pot, sauté red onion, garlic, cumin, salt, cinnamon, allspice and pepper in oil on low-medium heat until red onion and garlic are brown.

2. In a food processor or blender, puree black beans and tomatoes with half of vegetable base. Blend until smooth. Add pureed ingredients, pumpkin and the rest of the vegetable base to the pot.

3. Simmer uncovered until soup is thick, stirring often.

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SYNERGY TECH SUITE RECIPES

Cranberry Sage Salmon Courtesy of True North Salmon Serving Size: 160 g Yield: 50 Ingredients: 5.5 kg Salmon Portions 25 ml kosher salt 25 ml black pepper 15 ml sage, ground 125 ml shallots, chopped 350 ml grainy Dijon mustard 1.75 L cranberry sauce

Preparation: 1. In a mixing bowl, combine salt, pepper, sage, shallots and mustard.

2. Place salmon on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

3. Top each salmon portion with cranberry mixture and bake until internal temperature reaches 158F

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SYNERGY TECH SUITE

The Change Accelerator: How The Pandemic Transformed Our Technological Habits As humans, we have a natural tendency to resist change. Not to any fault of our own – habit forming has quite literally been wired into our brains since the beginning of time. Put simply: we form habits (i.e., things we can do “without thinking” such as brushing our teeth or driving the usual route to work) as a way for our brains to conserve precious energy.

But when our everyday routine is flipped on its head – like it was as we adjusted to a “new normal” – we’re left with no choice but to break our comfortable routines and quickly adapt.

During the developments of the pandemic, our teams, residents and their families had to program new neural pathways and break free of previous habits, while becoming more flexible in their approach to daily tasks and activities.

While older adults have rapidly adopted technology to keep in contact with loved ones, and their families have adopted technology to assist with grocery delivery, meals, telemedicine, wearable health monitoring and more...

We've leapfrogged forward several years in our technology adoption – and with many of these changes here to stay, the way we do business in our industry must change, too.

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THE EXCITING OPPORTUNITY When it comes to technology, current and future resident behaviors have rapidly changed – and with that comes a change in their expectations. As they continue to frequent “instant gratification” apps to order meals and groceries, older adults will grow continually accustomed to the ease, convenience and virtually endless choice that come with communicating, placing orders and making payments via their own personal device. And if they’re not going to get that same experience from your community’s foodservice, they may turn to third party apps like Uber Eats or a grocery delivery service whenever they have a desire or craving.

The opportunity is there: if you can provide something in the realm of the “what I want, when I want it, at the click of a button” experience in your own community, you can not only retain and please more residents, but tap into an entirely new revenue stream.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO EMBRACE THE OPPORTUNITY: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE

DESSERT HOLDINGS

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Research on Resilience to COVID-19

By Patricia Morgan, MA CCC Are you like me, feeling frustrated that we are still in the COVID19 forest of challenges? This I believe: leaders in government, health, education, business, and research seek the best answers to support us. Sometimes they are off the mark. Often times new findings come to light. Sometimes there is disagreement and conflict. Globally, divisiveness has never been louder.

Here, I want to focus on research organizations that attempt to track the mental health toll of the consequences of dealing with COVID-19. They also attempt to stay realistic and provide glimpses of optimism, hope, and resiliency.

In resiliency research, the term risk factors are used to describe challenges. You will see key problems identified as Findings of Concern. They describe how often and in what ways, COVID-19 related griefs are showing up.

You will also read what is termed, protective factors. Protector factors allow us to cope with challenges. Humans are inherently resilient, and we can fortify ourselves by reading how others are dealing with the present confinements, constraints, and disappointments. Notice some of the hopeful statistics and research results titled, Findings of Hope.

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RESEARCH Canadian Mental Health Association

Harvard Graduate School, US Mental Health Research, Canada

Morneau Shepell, US

Angus Reid Institute, Canada

1 . C A N A D I A N M E N TA L H E A LT H A S S O C I AT I O N MAY 3, 2021

Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Mental Health Findings of Concern

• 77% of adults reported feeling negative (uncomfortable) emotions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The most common responses related to emotions were, worried, anxious, bored, stressed, lonely or isolated and sad.

• 41% reported a decline in mental health since the beginning of COVID-19, compared to 38% in the spring and 40% in the fall of 2020.

• Decline was higher in those who are unemployed due to COVID (61%), those with a pre-existing mental health condition (54%), those aged 18-24 (50%), students (48%), those who have a disability (47%) or identify as LGBTQ2+ (46%).

Findings of Hope

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Emily Jenkins, a professor of nursing at University of British Columbia, provided an optimistic reframe to interviewees reporting their feelings. She said, “Sharing our very normal feelings of sadness, fear and worry is particularly important during this unusual time of stress, uncertainty and loss.”

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• walking or exercising outside (51%), • connecting with family and friends virtually (43%) • maintaining a healthy lifestyle (40%) • keeping up to date with relevant information (38%) • and doing a hobby (37%) OCTOBER 2021 18

2 . H A R VA R D G R A D U AT E SCHOOL, US FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Loneliness in America: How the Pandemic has Deepened an Epidemic of Loneliness and What We Can Do About It Findings of Concern

• 36% of adults, reported serious loneliness—feeling lonely frequently or almost all the time or all the time in the four weeks before to the survey.

• The above finding includes 61% of those age 18-25 and 51% of mothers of young children.

• 43% of young adults reported increases in loneliness since COVID-19.

• 50% of lonely young adults reported that no one in the past few weeks had “taken more than just a few minutes” to ask how they are doing in a way that made them feel like the person “genuinely cared.”

• According to a recent CDC survey, 63% of lonely young adults suffer anxiety or depression.

Findings of Hope

THE CEO'S MESSAGE

1. Encouragement from the Harvard Graduate School comes in the form of their follow-up recommendations: 2. Provide information, about coping strategies for loneliness including thought patterns and behaviors.

3. Review, rebuild, and reweave social relationships in our communities including government, healthcare, and educational institutions.

4. Remind ourselves to be committed to our own well-being and each other’s; as we are in this together.

3 . M E N TA L H E A LT H R E S E A R C H , CANADA

• walking or exercising outside (51%), • connecting and is Mental Health in Crisis:with Howfamily COVID-19 impacting Canadians friends virtually (43%) • maintaining a healthy lifestyle Findings of Concern: (40%) Since the onset of COVID-19, Canadians report their highest levels • keeping up to(17%). dateThose withreporting feeling of anxiety (25%) and depression depressed as high has increased by 70% since the height of the relevant information (38%) first wave of COVID-19.

• and doing a hobby (37%) • 6% of Canadians (1.8 million) ages 18 and older report, high in FEBRUARY 8, 2021

anxiety and depression, moderate to severe mental health symptoms, low management of stress and low resiliency.

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• More than one-half of Canadians worry about making ends meet, a considerable increase since before the pandemic.

• Social isolation is now the leading self-reported stressor.

• Those ages 18 to 34, have the highest decline in mental health, are less likely to be optimistic about recovery and access treatment.

Findings of Hope Canadians in this research reported they were coping by: • Going outside (40%) • Physical activity (21%) • Indoor activities including reading (30%) • Entertainment (25%)

4. MORNEAU SHEPELL, US APRIL 2020 TO MARCH 2021

The Mental Health Index™ Report – Mental Health One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic Findings of Concern:

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• Mental stress has increased.

• Finances and isolation are the strongest drivers of mental health.

• Women consistently indicate significantly poorer mental health and more mental stress.

• Post-secondary students have consistently the lowest mental health scores.

• Parents continue to have less favourable mental health scores than non-parents.

• People with reduced salaries or reduced hours have poorer mental health and more mental stress.

Findings of Hope

The good news from this report includes: • Mental health scores consistently improve with age.

• Young people are changing priorities to focus on mental health.

• Employer support is highly correlated with health heath.

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5. ANGUS REID INSTITUTE, CANADA OCTOBER 14, 2020

Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19: Pandemic Leads to Sharp Increase in Mental Health Challenges, Social Woes Findings of Concern:

• Those reporting a good social life dropped from 55% in 2019 to 33%.

• The category of The Desolate (loneliness + social isolation) increased from 23% in May 2020 to 33%.

• Those reporting their mental health was good or very good dropped from 67% in 2020 to 53%.

• 40% of young men and women are among the Desolate and are experiencing considerable isolation and loneliness.

• Marital satisfaction decreased from 57% good to 51%.

Findings of Hope

• Family members continue to be of support and largely positive.

• Older Canadians are most likely to categorized as Cherished and Moderately Connected. They are living through the pandemic the best.

• Those 55 years old plus have increased their use of technology to stay connected from 36% to 55%.

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CONCLUSION

Reflecting on Your own To summarize, take extra care of yourself, watch your selftalk, and connect often to those you love and feel loved by. If you are stuck in any mental health challenge before, during or after COVID-19, please reach out for help. We are all doing the best we can and that best includes being here for one another.

Patricia Morgan is often referred to as a Spunky Seniorpreneur.

Her ability to provide bite-sized knowledge nuggets for resilience has helped many people emerge stronger after facing unthinkable challenge.

With a MA in Clinical Psychology, she has authored several books on resilience, stress management, and women’s issues. Learn more about Patricia’s work at https://www.solutionsforresilience.com/ 21 NOURISHING NEWS

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