Member Feedback
We are truly touched by the feedback our members send us! We appreciate all your support :)
Thank you for your articles and for providing a place to go for someone with no experience in this field. Without people like you I'd be completely lost! THANK YOU!!!
Valerie Harnish
Activities Director
United States
This website has been amazing, so helpful and interesting. Thank you for all your wonderful ideas over the years. All the best for 2019!
Karen Dries
Manager
Australia
I am loving everything Golden Carers has to offer. The printable calendars are a huge hit and the activities make planning so easy. Thanks Golden Carers!!
Jacqui Oughtred
Leisure And Lifestyle Coordinator
"Golden Carers is a perfect site for those of us who are in regular contact and coordinate activities for the elderly. Becoming a member of Golden Carers was the best investment, Great work, keep it up."
Clive Clark
Co-Ordinator
United Kingdom
I have been in this field for close to 15 years. I came across your website initially because I was searching for a shared, personal forum with other professionals in my field that was not attached to random advertising and monthly fees. After discovering your website which hosted a forum that was exactly what I was looking for, as well as providing a mountain of resources that didn’t require you to follow several external links to get to, and to top it off no monthly recurring fee...Jackpot!
William Bedingfield
Life Enrichment Director
I've just joined today ... I can see already that I've made the right choice. The information and ideas are fantastic!
Lisa Forth
Activity Manager
I truly am so grateful I have found this group. I am looking forward to your emails everyday and it feels like it has given me a new lease on my working life as I went through a rough patch for a while. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you do!
Saskia Badenhorst
Activities Coordinator
South Africa
Thank you so much - I love the site. It has been so helpful and I'm glad I joined!
Fidelma Carroll
Activity Co-Ordinator
Ireland
I just love love love this site - each time I'm glued to the many and awesome ideas to engage with our seniors. I recently downloaded some of the crossword puzzles and these seniors are fabulous to work with. That is just the tip of the iceberg. In this new chapter of my life, as semi-retired, I am so enjoying my time with seniors and watching them light up; I feel I've found a new niche. It's extremely gratifying. As to the cost of membership, it came out of my pocket - I rationalised that it was only about $3/month, less than many magazines. So keep up the GREAT work!!! Thanks again Golden Carers!!!!!
Sally Hagy
Volunteer
I am so grateful to have found this site. Your suggestions for activities and groups are so helpful. Your resources are wonderful.
Sharon Wilburn
LCSW
I just recently joined this site also and let me tell you it is WONDERFUL!!!! I am an activity director at a senior center and not only do our older seniors enjoy it but we also have a group respite program geared towards participants with dementia and Alzheimer's, that respond really well to the trivia/quizzes that the website offers. I am so thankful to have this site as a resource to assist with enhancing their quality of life!
Ellen Hargett
Community Social Services Asst
Taking this opportunity to say THANK YOU for the activity ideas. This website is my saviour. I love Golden Carers!
Pat Fernando
Volunteer
I just renewed my membership. Couldn't be without the brilliant info and activities you supply to do my job with satisfaction. The resources are brilliant and made my job easier, more fun and so much more interesting. I work at a day centre for the elderly and they love all the ideas. Many thanks!
Pamela Davey
Activity Coordinator
Guernsey
You're quite the special angel here to assist everyone. It takes a special kind of person to deal with seniors - they are not given the respect or credit they so deserve to have lasted this long on this earth. To have witnessed such history is amazing. So many are forgotten about and I try everyday to share RAOKs (Random Acts of Kindness) with any person I see that could use it - thank you again for the great ideas which I hope to spread around the area to help make others know how special they are.
Judith Prince
Carer
Thank you for all your excellent suggestions and resources, what a great site and well worth the annual membership.
Naomi Silver
Leisure and Health Officer
I love this site so much! Thanks for all your great ideas.
Meredith Sheldon
Activities Officer
Your site is easy to use, I use it more often than the one our consultant has set up! I use so many of your ideas and love the Facebook page where everyone shares ideas, concerns and triumphs! I feel connected to a big wonderful caring society! I am always telling my co-workers how awesome Golden Carers is. I feel it is more in touch with the needs of my residents than many of the other Recreational Therapy sites.
Sherrie Gardner
Recreational Therapist
I really enjoy Golden Carers. This is the best website I have found.
Sunya Sauls
Activity Director
So glad I found you, your site is such a blessing to me 😊. I have been a PCA for 17 yrs. I am in charge of making up the monthly calendar and coming up with new ideas. It was starting to be a real challenge. I encourage all my residents to join in daily but they need new things offered to hold their interest. So glad I took a chance and signed up with you!!! You're making my job a lot easier. Thank you and keep up the great work !! It's so appreciated.
Barb Baker
Personal Care Assistant
As you all know Lifestyle can be very challenging so it's good to have the support of like-minded people. I love the variety and ideas. Your activities are up to date, meaningful and positive.
Geraldine Melican
Lifestyle Therapist
I'm so happy I found this site. It's been very helpful to me for my job and for the residents I care for. Many thanks to GoldenCarers you're doing an excellent job!
Rose Arcellana
Activity Organizer
I cannot thank you enough. I am so lost without The Golden Carers Resources.
Corazon de la Cruz
Occupational Therapy Assistant
It's really wonderful to see our clients so engaged with the puzzles and word searches, the Trivia is really popular and our participants get a buzz out of getting the answers correct. Golden Carers is our "Go To" resource on a weekly basis and it is rewarding for our working day to add it to our activity programs.
Nicole Bieshaar
Activity + Respite Worker
I love love LOVE this site! there is so much information that if I am ever stuck for ideas I can ALWAYS find many many different things for my residents to do.
Shantell Kemp
Lifestyle Co-Ordinator
I love this website especially the "This day in History" series. They are fantastic for my newsletter that I put out every month.
Jo Stewart
Diversional Therapist
I just find Golden Carers fantastic. You are so up to date with the material you provide us with. Thank you so much for your efficiency and for all you teach us. Keep up the good work!
Georgia Sultana
Caregiver
Golden Cares is my lifeline at my job. As Activities Coordinator in a 35-bed dementia care unit, we use something every day from it.
Pam Erskine
Activity Coordinator
Canada
Thank you for many years of wonderful ideas that you have given me through Golden Carers. Your ideas and opportunities for networking with other activities people have been a great resource for me to access. Wishing your wonderful organisation all the best.
Gloria Clarke
Diversional Therapist
This is just the most amazing site and we just love using it. Thanks
Bev Cohen
Activity Co-ordinator
Your fantastic site is crammed full of great ideas. I am really glad I joined.
Linda Moores
Activities Coordinator
Thank you for your fantastic resources which I have utilised for some time now for the Golden Age Club which our church has run for almost 40 years. Thanks again, you provide a very valuable service which in the years to come will no doubt be more relevant as our population ages.
Alice Rietveld
Volunteer for Aged Care
I appreciate the time and effort you put into finding and creating activities for seniors. I especially appreciate the freebies as I am a volunteer which implies I do not receive a paycheck so I really count on the free items your site offers and put them to good use at the PC and Dementia facility I volunteer at.
Merrilynn Wheeler
Executive Board Member
Keep up the good work, Golden Carers. I couldn't do my job without you!
Julia Barnes
Activity Coordinator
"I love this site, thank you so much for making my job a little easier :)"
Claudia McPhail
Senior Support Worker
Golden Carers is my 'Right Hand Man'... I am ever so grateful for this website. Thank you to all who contribute... hopefully I will share some things myself soon.
Johnette Walker
Activities Officer in an Aged Care Facility
"Imagine life without Golden Carers. Imagine doing the same activities day after day because the Golden Carers site doesn't exist. Now wake up and breathe a sigh of relief it was all just a bad dream. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!"
Liz Buckley
Assistant
Thank you Golden Carers, without you I don't know how we could possibly give our elderly treasures such a huge range of activities.
Sue Porter
Nurse
We just got a "tablet" for our Activities group and we love having Golden Cares downloaded on it! It saves so much on photocopies and continues to make our day better:) Thank you!
Pam Erskine
Activity Coordinator
I cannot tell you how much I benefit from this website. It truly amazes me! I find myself on it EVERYDAY! WELL DONE TO YOU ALL ❤️
Tamara Juckes
Activities Manager
My residents thoroughly enjoy all the games I have been collecting from your page for them. Thank you! I am very grateful as I find it a great help to be able to log in and find all these wonderful games for them. Thank you so very much.
Patricia Hawkins
Personal Care Assistant
Golden Carers is a phenomenal and creative resource of activities for the senior population and people with dementia. They also provide resources and support for the caregiver too. I liked all the different types of activities that were available. You could pick and choose from a plethora of items the activities appropriate for your group. Keep on doing what you are doing. So many people's lives have been touched and improved by your website. Your website is a blessing to many organisations.
Teresa Hutchinson
Carepartner
I love Golden Carers it is a fabulous resource. It has made my life so much easier, so that in turn does wonders for my clients. The work that you put in to helping us all is wonderful please don’t give up.
Is it worth the money? You betcha it is. My clients love the quizzes and we have many laughs and it opens up many a thoughtful discussion on life as an older person. I thank you so much when l am stuck for ideas l just jump onto GOLDEN CARERS. Have a great day and keep up the great work.
Lesley Dalitz
Recreation Therapist
Your website is wonderful! I use it almost on a daily basis. My people LOVE the word ladders! They can't get enough of them. I will continue using it as long as I'm working as an activities person!
Lisa Dalesio
Activities for Seniors
Thanks for all your hard work... Love this site !!!
Anne Rose
Activity Coordinator
Everything in Golden Carers is so precious. I feel my mind was blown and my eyes were opened after I joined the group. Thanks so much. I just keep learning.
Lily Wang
L&L Assistant
THANK YOU for ALL YOU DO! Your website is remarkable and I'm so glad I found it! It's truly made my job easier. I go to private care homes (5 to 8 people) and do fun activities once or twice per week.
Lisa Dalesio
Activities for Seniors
Love using lots of your quizzes, riddles, word games, games and craft activities. There's always something new to give inspiration. Thanks very much.
Janet Coull
Activities Therapist
Golden Carers helps me professionally carry out my daily activities and keep my residents happy! I just love Golden Carers.
Linda Bain
Recreational Activity Officer
I am overwhelmed with the activities on this site, truly amazing. This website has been tremendously amazing and helpful for all my residents on the dementia unit. I have worked in the field of dementia and Alzheimer’s in a long term care home for 30 years. This website is a blessing from above. You are all amazing for the future of care givers and residents.
Shannon Smith
Activity Director
Your website has wonderful ideas, it gets the creative juices flowing! Money well spent :D
Kathleen Constance
Lifestyle Assistant
I am always on the lookout for new ideas. When I saw your website, I thought 'golden find for golden carers'. Thank you so much for this resource.
Janeen Huff
Runs a Dementia Café
An amazing resource for anyone looking for ways to enrich the lives of the elderly. You provide an invaluable resource for anyone caring for the elderly, and I have appreciated every moment of our association.
Linda Pill
Volunteer Chaplin
I am starting my 2nd day as a Life Enrichment Coordinator and am loving it. I subscribed to your site to learn more about the assisted living world. I am loving the hands-on ideas and thoughtful articles. Thank you!!
Colleen Dvorak
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Thank you so much for all these wonderful activities and ideas. I used to spend hours compiling quizzes and looking for activities. You have made my job so much easier, keep up the good work!! :)
Sue Bird
Activities Coordinator
Thank you for the resources provided on Golden Carers. I found them immensely valuable, relevant and worthwhile. Educational and updated information provided. Great activity ideas and suggestions. The activities presented are appropriate and can be adapted to different client groups in any English speaking country. It is easy to read and understand the instructions and explanations.
Marilyn Willock-James
Activity Officer
Golden Carers is my life saver. There is so much to choose from. I'm printing things every night. Golden Carers is brilliant.
Jane Walker
Activities Coordinator
Golden Carers is just wonderful. An amazing resource shared all over the world. I use Golden carers on a daily basis and added with Pinterest, it just makes my job that little bit easier on those days when inspiration doesn't come easy. I love that there is always something new every time I look.
Kim Davidson
Activity Officer
I just wanted to tell you that this addition of "This day in History" is phenomenal!!!! I've been looking for something like this, and to have it all done, makes my job so much easier! I love your website and my seniors enjoy all of the great activities! THANK YOU!!
Andrea Wheeler
Activity Director
I would like to thank you all for everything you've done to help people like us, giving us the new ideas and confidence to carry on doing what we do. As you must be aware it's not the easiest job in the world, especially trying to get a smile out of someone. I wish you all the possible good wishes for the future and do hope you will continue for many years to come.
Jane Spencer
Activity Provider
I just want to say what a wonderful site this is.... the residents are thoroughly enjoying the activities I am using from this site!!
Carla Mayhew
Lead Activities Coordinator
"Just love how I can go into Golden Carers and get so many ideas, LOVE IT"
Janine Peucker
Lifestyle Coordinator
I love the forum, I can get a feel of the issues recreation staff face in their work. Keep up the good work you do for us!!
Lauretta Kaldor
Diversional Therapist
"I am thankful for all that you share with our Activity Coordinator community! I also like that we can help each other out by sharing our creative ideas and post in the Forum's and get feedback from other members! Thank you!"
Stephanie Keese
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Love all the great ideas. Love Golden Carers. I have used so many of your ideas since I started and all with great feedback with staff who like to join in too. What a difference I have seen in the residents, more joining in because of giving them time to express what they like to do and always offering for them to join in, whatever the activity. Having so much to offer but not overwhelming them, just a little at a time and someone will show their enthusiasm to give it a try. Thank you Golden Carers.
Jane Rofe
Activities Coordinator
I just renewed my membership, it's such an invaluable resource.
Jane Moulson
Lifestyle & Health Student
I’m loving your website, it’s been a great help to me over the last six months since I started my new role. Lots of hints and tips, great activities, and it’s great that we can contribute too. It’s fantastic to have such a universal source of information, how we have a common goal and language despite our worldwide locations. Thank you!
Salena Riley
Development Worker
I always appreciate your new ideas and suggestions. It certainly helps in the creativity and idea areas immensely. Keep up the great emotional support that you provide!
Marjorie Luker
Activities Assistant
Thank you so much!! You provide such an awesome service to us! You are really appreciated.
Del McAlister
Activity Officer
I absolutely love this site. It is so resourceful. Thank you!
Nectaria Berry
Aged Care
Thank you Golden Carers! Your website is amazing and thanks to you, our residents have a wonderful daily enjoyable life.
Catalina M Seymour
Activity Director
This site is amazing! I'm not sure how I survived before I was introduced to this! Something for every occasion! So many ways for the clients to reminisce and learn about new things. Well worth the membership fee. Thank you!
Nicole Pike
Adult Day Centre Program Coordinator
Absolutely love this site. I have a lady who just started to work at activities, I have introduced her to some of your activities on the site and she is doing a wonderful job and absolutely loving it as much as I do. Thank you so much Golden Carers!
Donna Kelly
Diversional Therapist
New Zealand
Thank you Golden Carers for always inspiring me with interesting topics. Keep them coming!
Marjorie Luker
Activities Assistant
Golden Carers is an exceptional resource tool for the aged care industry. I like the quality of resources and regular newsletters alerting you to updates.
Susan Klus
Lifestyle Assistant
I absolutely love this site. I find the resources and ideas invaluable in my role as a Recreational Activities Officer in a large Nursing Home. The abundance of ideas, quizzes, and printable forms are helping me help the residents find their inner “fun” which had previously been missing. THANK YOU from myself and the residents!!
Kylie Black
Recreational Activities Officer
I absolutely love this website. I check my emails everyday hoping for a newsletter. The information and activities are the best, I use them all the time :)
Jodie Wynne
Assistant in Nursing
I just want to let you know, I really am glad to be your member. I am learning so much with your information and I create daily activities with your help. My residents are so happy and this means the world to me. Thanks to you all.
Catalina M Seymour
Activity Leader
Sooooo happy and thankful I have this medium as it saves so much time and energy collecting info and collating it. Thank you everyone for all your ideas it covers sooo much!
Catherine Gibb
Activity Coordinator
Amazing!!!!! Soooo helpful and my 1st" go to" for quizzes! Thank you!
Karen Casey
Activity Co-ordinator
I LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! This website! Soooo much information to use in activities and with our Residents/Patients!
Jacqulyn Thorns
Activity Program Coordinator
I love this site. I have used so many things, the possibilities are endless.
Barb Baker
PCA
This website is such a great hit! I look forward to many enjoyable months ahead. Your site is absolutely amazing! I use it all the time.
Debra Gaiz
Aged Care Carer
Thanks for the hard work you put into making our Jobs a bit simpler....This is such a valuable site for all Diversional Therapists. I can't thank you enough :-)
Kareen Kovacich
Diversional Therapist
I just have to tell you that your word search puzzles are perfect! The right font, print - everything. You even add a little picture on them that adds interest. You've really improved on them and I am eternally grateful. So are my clients!
Janet Runyon
Adult Day Center Coordinator
Golden Carers is definitely right for me! It's very helpful. Thank you so much for your work.
Lynn Smith
Occupational Therapist
We love your website! Everyday I find a new and exciting programs/projects to incorporate into the day. You have made my job alot easier and for that I appreciate you:)
Pam Erskine
Activity Coordinator
We are so lucky! I absolutely love everything about Golden Carers, so many things to explore, ideas, etc. Every Tuesday was magic. Thank you again!
Patricia Nilson
Activity Co-Ordinator
Thank you for such great content and resources. Something for every occasion. I really love using this website.
Jashmine Sharma
Diversional Therapist
I love the Golden Carers. It has helped me in all aspects of my job. Imagine life without Golden Carers .... nope... I can't. Thank you for your fantastic resources. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
Faith Stewart
Therapy Assistant
I have only just found you and I have been overwhelmed by the content. A week ago, I was contemplating leaving my job because I was just running out of ideas and I was getting bored doing the same old things. Not now! Thank you!
Krissi Rochelle
Social Life Co-ordinator
Thanks for all the amazing things you post. The information you provide is just awesome. Thank you so much for all you do to make aging better.
Karen Midlo
Carer
Golden Carers' website is OUTSTANDING! I tell others about it often. I appreciate everything you do! Your team works hard and it shows! My people LOVE the Rhyming Riddles! They feel so smart when they guess correctly. I repeat them from time to time, and they still enjoy! Feel free to create more.
Lisa Dalesio
Activities for Seniors
Your ideas are fantastic. Golden Carers is our most useful resource, thank you for all the wonderful ideas over the years.
Darla Spiry
Activity & Recreation Aid
This is a valuable resource for those working with older people. The activities are suitable for a range of abilities and focus on fun for all.
Donna McConnell
Activities Coordinator
Golden Carers has been invaluable to my Activities Program.
Heike Marquart
Activities Coordinator
I LOVE your site and find it so useful.
Shantell Kemp
Lifestyle CoOrdinator
As I'm new at coordinating activities for seniors with dementia, you have given a lot of ideas that I am using and plan on using. Golden Carers is one of its kind. Thank you
Stella Igihozo Naza
Activity Coordinator
Golden Carers is the Lifestyle Bible!
Karen Buckley
Activities Assistant
I believe your service is superb and more should access it. Keep up your great work. Many many thanks to the wonderful work you do and the manner in which you help people.
Kath Holtom
Retired Deputy Head
Many thanks for making our life so much easier. Otherwise designing these activities would take forever!
Beryl-Ann Kirby
Lifestyle Coordinator
You have been such a valuable asset to my work. I love this site and I use it a lot. I tell all other activities coordinators about it. Thankyou.
Amanda Mitchell
Activity Coordinator
I cannot even begin to express how thankful I am to have found this site! My residents have been thriving with all our new activities!
Kaitlyn Reed-Mercer
Life Enrichment Director
Golden Carers has made creating our monthly rosters so much easier with fantastic ideas, games and quizzes to keep my Day Club members entertained and the brain ticking over. Thank you, the membership fee even for our small volunteer group is money well spent. :)
Tracey Kelleher
Volunteer
The care quality commission inspectors looked at the activities I printed off from this website and they were very impressed. So thank you again!
Katya Dray
Activity Coordinator
The best thing I ever did was join Golden Carers, we love it. I started as a carer and now I enjoy Activities even more so with your help.
Lisa Buchan
Carers & Activities
Your website is simply the best. We are a small team of Lifestyle staff who find it inspirational, creative and full of fantastic ideas. Thank you to all your team, we appreciate the wonderful resources Golden Carers provides to us.
Leonie Bell
Lifestyle Manager
Love Golden Carers! You guys sure have something for every occasion. Helps me in my search to keep our residents happy. Thanks to all your great ideas, my residents are kept very happy with all that you have to offer! They are never bored!
Sancha Ashton
Lifestyle Care Assistant
Thank you so much Golden Carers, I really love using this website. It has been helping my study a lot and I will stick with you for as long as I work in the Aged Care industry.
Ngoc Burgess
Aged Care Lifestyle Student
I have joined today and am so amazed by the sheer amount of joy it brings me and my residents. The variety of tools Golden Carers has is mind-boggling. It has given me a new lease of confidence. Amazing guys!
Yvonne Langdon
Health Care Assistant
I'm very new to aged care so I'm checking in regularly and feel like I have a new best friend.
Donna Smalley
Activity Coordinator
Forever grateful for such an amazing resource, it's relevant and accurate, how would I work without you. I love Golden Carers!
Sotiana Rokobatini
Aged Care Worker
I have been sharing your resource information with my clients. Your customer service is truly exemplary.
Traci Pareti
Activity Consultant
Golden Carers is fantastic and invaluable, our clients love all the activities, quizzes and crosswords. You all make my job as a diversional therapist much easier with all your wonderful quizzes and ideas. A huge thank you to you and your team. 😊
Anna Garrood
Diversional Therapist
I cannot tell you how helpful this site has been. The best decision I've ever made!! As soon as I get organized, I'm adding some ideas.
Emily Lyon
Activity Director
Your site is my bible in my job, I hate being without it. I use your site most days and I would be lost without it.
Marra Pearn
Lifestyle Manager
I would like to congratulate Golden Carers for being an invaluable tool in enabling me to provide my Dementia clients with a wide range of appropriate activities.
Great value for money, I would recommend you to anyone working in this field. A big thank you!!!
Carole Godde
Recreational Activities Officer
I have been so thrilled to get the tips and ideas on dealing with Seniors across the board. Golden Carers has really helped me the past few months. Thank you!
Shirley Pikoos
Welfare Village Officer
I'm thrilled that I discovered this marvellous site. It has become my "bible" for ideas, information and creativity. My clients absolutely love the activities I've picked up from Golden Carers. Thank you.
Carol Cosham
Senior Activities Volunteer
I have been using your site constantly over the last few weeks as I was allocated a client with young on-set dementia. Your strategies, games and ideas have been brilliant. Thanks again!
Anne Campbell
Behaviour Support Practitioner
Absolutely love this site, you only need to use this one site to find plenty of activities for use in aged care homes.
Gail Parker
Lifestyle Coordinator
Extremely happy I joined Golden Carers, it has become so useful for activities in the adult day centre I coordinate.
Donna-Lee Game
Coordinator
Thank you so much for this site I use this every month, I do a flyer of what's on each month for my facility and use all the wonderful ideas, quizzes, trivia and craft. It makes my job so much easier.
Paula Sait
RLO / Resident Liaison Officer
Golden Carers has researched articles on dementia activities, men’s activities, dealing with challenging behaviour, and more. Thank you for a great web site. Professional! Informative! Well researched! Innovative!
Annelize Steyn
Recreation Officer
Golden Carers continually amazes me with its tools that give us so much more scope and assistance, to do our job, in the best way possible. Thank You!
Jo Fazio
Lifestyle Coordinator
I can't thank Golden Carers enough for all the ideas and tips being launched regularly. I am so glad I became a member of this site and can bring smiles and joy to my clients. Now more laughter and giggles will spread in the AIR!!
Geeta Limbu
Senior Carer
What a great website....fantastic! Thank you for such great content and recourses
Cathy Watson
Diversional Therapist
Thanks so much for providing this service. I cannot wait to use the resources to help out my volunteers.
Dylan Gunter
Aged Care Student Volunteer
This is the most wonderful resource that can be used year in and year out, a great addition for staff when they are planning activities.
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I have joined today and am so amazed by the sheer amount of joy it brings me and my residents. The variety of tools Golden Carers has is mind-boggling. It has given me a new lease of confidence. Amazing guys!
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