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Thank you so much for this great resource. I run a very small lunch club with a fab team of volunteers and this will be great for our next 'name that tune' activity

I am so very grateful for Golden Carers, and vast variety of activity ideas they bring each and every month. Could not do without them.
Thank you so much !!!

Love this!

what are the different activities that can be suggested to an elderly who is bedridden and have arthritis in fingers?
The person loves to talk but have dementia

I love this game. I find it helpful to do this kind of guessing game in 3 stages: Slide #1 = written info, Slide #2 = photo as a clue, Slide #3 = answer.

Love the scarecrows they look so easy to make, will make them with our clients next month. Thank you. Kerrie

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This place is brilliant! So many ideas I will try out

I love this! I too work in a mental health hospital as well. I always would just draw a person, a flower, or something that fits the season. Sometimes I wouldn't draw anything at all and would just cross out letters that were already guessed. Love this idea!

I do something like this every morning with the date and temp and all that, and my residents fav part is that I put a "today in history" or a fun fact and then I add what todays national day is!

This sounds like a great idea. I will try this game to my seniors group.

Great Quiz! My residents enjoyed it!

I was directed to your website for information on activities care plans. Very informative, and very interesting. The ones we have now do not match up to your level of client-centered or standards of care based care plans at all (in my opinion). I am the MDS Coordinator for my facility. I reached out to my Administrator for paid access to your site. I believe FLH could go a long way in improving. Our Activities Director is Cece, and I directed her to your site. I hope she checks it out as well. I found tons of ideas and things we could learn as well as do! Thanks for the awesome visit to your website. You set the bar high as far as Activities care plans. Awesome work!

There are also non-alcoholic mulled wine recipes out there too. I'm going to try one at my next armchair travel.

How much of the slow medium and the cell medium do you use please?

Our residents enjoyed the quiz , got a lot of answers for each question.
Thank you!

Thank you Lisa Gwyneth

great idea, very easy thanks

The variety of Bingo games continues to cause much anticipation and pleasure when residents read the weekly programs.

Great, made me wish I could speak Irish!

Nicola, we play this in the states as a drinking game. Not a mess, and so much fun...give it a try. I'm sure you'll have a blast.

I love the chocolate in the cup game...thanks for the idea

I love coming here, and finding new ideas or ways we can refresh our other games. So thankfulbfor this site.

i read On This Day every morning to our residents.
Any piece of history that I know our residents would be really interested in, I do more research on it. We have had some wonderful conversations, even trying to remember what we were doing or where we were when. a particular event happened.
thank you for all the wonderful ideas and information.

Great for scanning activity. I laminate mine on A3 and use a whiteboard marker so they can be used over and over. You could do this in a group and change pictures around after a set time period, just need a quick wipe over.

The short stories are a wonderful addition to the ever expanding activities that can be provided to residents, mine certainly enjoy them.

I play the accordion and loved getting the playlist from Susan. I like to play from lead sheets and would welcome any links. I have been playing a Senior Assisted Living facility. Thanks.

In the recipe it say 1 packet of gelatine is that 125g or a small individual one.
Thanks Donna Rose Lodge Invercargill, New Zealand

What we did today was quite fun. We went through ‘this day in history’ and then played hangman afterwards. All the words I chose, came from the information in ‘this day in history’. The residents quickly picked this up and then - once a word was identified in hangman - I asked them from which fact / detail it came. So memory was also tested. We had quite a lot of fun.

I'm interested in join this wonderful website. I work with a lots of residents that speak Spanish. I was wondering if the daily chronicles can be printed in Spanish?
Thanks.

Thank you for a fantastic bingo card went down so well with our residents . We had had a flower arranging demonstration first so fitted in perfectly what I did as well as the calling cards I had a play list of flower songs which I played when pulling out a card (Tulips from Amsterdam) Daisy daisy (paper roses)ext.etc

Love this!

This is an awesome site for my seniors, I've been able to entertain them during mental and physical activities. Although my subscription has expired, I am able to still get some exciting activities. The white board games are real challenging to them, but they love during making words from alphabets and from other words. I will be renewing my subscription soon. Thanks!!!

We have created an individual scrapbook where photos with dates and comments are added each month as a momento for the families

Where can I send fiddle mats to dementia patients in Maryland?

My Residents are enjoying the Activities that you Post every month Thank You!

I have an old set of My Book House, collection of children's short stories, fables, poems, etc. Vol. 6,7,8 seem to have stories that would be interesting to read, but written for children. Would that be appropriate or appealing for my skilled care residents?

The residents will like this idea. Very informative. Thanks

Nice idea and close to nature.

Hi there,
I am Carlota working in disabilities and currently part of the group where we are facilitating the activities for our clients but most of our clients are high needs and in a wheelchair, and our other clients are walker. Now, I was assigned to oversee the following sessions:
1. Matariki Class
2. Theatre works
3. Scrapbooking
4. Mind works
5. Looking after Me

If you have ideas on those classes will be a big help for me if you can share it to me. Thank you in advance.

Love these! They are fun and great for a quick game.

Great quiz not too difficult

Looking for a template to edit for Residents & relatives meeting

Thanks in advance
Caroline :)

Thanks for a great resource! Such a good idea to celebrate classical music month!

Thank you for sharing!! I am new to lifestyle and trying to find a new spin on the activities in place . I guess my own spin on things . Hopefully they haven’t done this before and enjoy bingo a little differently.

Men's activities are the hardest for me to plan. Thank you so much for sharing these ideas and activities!

Being a very new sign up to this wonderful website I already find the quizzes excellent for the Home where I Volunteer and the ideas you suggest along with my many ideas make my time entertaining the Residents extremely fulfilling.. I have this evening made my own very cheap version of the Bean Bag Toss..Being a Bowls fanatic I also have a length of green carpet from local Bowls Club with small toy Bowls which Residents enjoy attempting to get near the Jack in a competitive manner..there are so many simple ideas that work really well I find..

Amazing Golden carers. Absolutely Amazing. God Bless.

Great resource !!

Many Thanks !

I do a Memory Cafe and we are going to be doing a full 2 hours on Iceland. Love what we can download and folks are telling me they are looking forward to it.

I like to tell jokes. I remember funny things that happen when I was younger. I make funny faces. I enjoy watching I love Lucy and america funniest video.