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Thanks for sharing, I'm going to try this tomorrow with my residents.

What a great idea

I have been finding this site great for ideas. Really like the fabric and felt poppies craft. Am going to try with my residents. Thank you Golden carers. Judy Dwyer Diversional therapist New Zealand

what is the theme for National Nursing Home Week for May,2021.

This looks like an awesome recipe! Could you tell me if the lemonade to use in this recipe is to be carbonated?
Thank you :)

Very good quiz. My mum was able to answer nearly all these questions.

Thank you for all the amazing activities and ideas. I have had some very interesting and fun days using your activities. The facility I work at is small and is quite challenging as not all residents participate. I therefore use your site to help me encourage them to join in the fun. Thank you

Hi,
Please can you tell me when you will be updating the footy tipping sheets for the 2021 rounds after round 6. I would like to be able to print them off in the next week. Thanks.

Thank you for these entertaining synonym activities. I have taken the liberty of using number 4 to create another one and added in antonyms as well.

Love these! Thanks!

I'm currently working on other decades - how long on average are you spending per decade with the current number of slides? I'll take that into account for the next ones I make to potentially lengthen them.

When I play the current 60s slide with 6-8 residents for example, I usually spend about an hour, hour and a half since we end up reminiscing about some of the products in between.

Did anyone get the attachment for the original songs for this bingo please ?

Great idea! We used some maple branches buried in a vase with some stones for various seasons. A “grateful tree” for Thanksgiving. Leaves were attached to the tree with things residents and families were grateful for. During Easter we had decorations painted by the residents on display. Trees aren’t just for Christmas anymore:)

Look forward to trying this, Thankyou

Thanks for the great resources.We traveled to Greece and our consumers enjoyed it very much.
I made cheese Pita and this opened up a great conversation
Regards Nicky
Activity Coordinator

Love that you guys have today in history in Spanish!!!

Well that would be there choice not get the vaccine and my choice not to invite them to a party !

Hi Pendar,
I was the director of a social day program for 8-1/2 years (although with the company for 11-1/2). When we closed last March due to the pandemic I couldn't stand watching my clients decline at such a quick pace. I went on Zoom and found out how to make get togethers work for my clients. I did this a few times and finally threw in a quiz one time...Magic...I have been running one hour classes ever since. I run six per week. 3 afternoon and 3 evenings. It is wonderful to see folks respond to what I offer. We do 15 minutes of varied exercise. quizzes, I then offer a Power Point Presentation with anywhere up to 75 slides and walk the thru with descriptions and background. We listen to music, have sing a longs, dress up for holidays and laugh a lot...We have gone skydiving, on a cruise, touring Victorian homes, visited zoos, studied animals, birds, galaxies and on and on. I so enjoy interacting with folks online....
Let me know what you have in mind....and we can see if we can make this work.
All the best,
Linda O'Donnell

This truck has been so fun. We have used it as a valentines truck we handed out kisses, hot dog truck, Christmas tree cakes.....

Everyday is a new day with a new set of challenges. I look forward to the day when we can do more! Sometimes I feel so isolated and our folks feel the same way.

Hi Pendar,

I am sorry I do not have any resources you are looking for. You may try and call your area health provider to see if they offer virtual resources (exercise, medication list help, how to keep tripping hazards out of the home, diabetic eating etc) I have used our local health unit for the above presentations in the past. I wish you luck! have a great day!

I made these for 76 residents they loved them and staff as well

This really helped me today. Since we are reopening soon because we have all been vaccinated. I am getting a sense of my residents.

Hi my name is Loretta. Nicole and I work together in activities. I truly love this Idea! So creative! We are ordering a ice cream truck today.

My residents on my memory care floor LOVE,the new price is right game,would love for you to add more content

Does anyone know where I can purchase large laminated cross word mat which can be used repeatedly and how much it costs.

Fabulous way to get to know each other better! Can't wait to try it out. Jill, Activities Coordinator, NZ

Absolutely love the new changes ! Great programming

Beautiful flowers to celebrate spring, excellent power point, thank you for sharing!

Hi, I hope all of you had a really great Easter.
I am offered a casual job as a therapy assistant and I assist with activities one of my activities is to read a story to the residents before they all go to bed. I choose short stories as I feel a longer one is a bit too much for the end of the day. As they have plenty of activities during the day.
What do you think is a good idea. Long or short
Thanks
Chris

Great ideas. I'm new to my role and very excited to do these with my residents. Thank you.

We have elected to start and knitting club and as had been mentioned before people who can no longer knit or crochet can come be mentors for other people including staff.
We have named our group Get Knitted and hopefully will be kicking it off this week.

Thank you! And I should have added that these are statistics from the USA and US dollars now that I see your profile flag. Still hope it is able to help!

Thank you, that sounds fun!

This was a nice activity, however Denis the Menace is not how we recognised him from the Beano comic here in the UK. Some other characters to include might be Marvel and DC superheroes, superheroines.

Hi Linda!

We are working on an exciting new way to handle Image Quizzes.

However - in the meantime, I've converted this PDF into a Word Document and PowerPoint so you can use it :)

Hi Jennifer!

Please try again - all fixed now :)

Hello! I just tried the 5000 game myself to see how long it would take me to get to 5000. With 6 dice it took 44 turns. With 10 dice it took 25. In either case the form isn't long enough. Did anyone else have this problem? Is there a way to get the excel document so I can add more rows? Thanks all!

Interesting

Thank you for putting up a Canadian tribute.

Awww thank you Talita! I hope you enjoy it with your residents!!!
Appreciate your comment

Happy Easter God bless you all
Using this websites seeing the joy and love in someone s else’s eyes making a difference in there life’s using ideas etc from this wonder site

Thanks Christine, glad you enjoyed it. Happy Easter to you. Gwyneth

Hi Shelley,

I am working in an Adult Day Program in Ontario and would like to get connected with several third parties that are capable to conduct one-hour virtual/in-person workshops for a group of independent seniors.

Please let me know if you have any recommendations.

Thank you
Pendar(Recreation Specialist)

Guess I'm not able to make this quiz into a Power Point Presentation.....I came across
this problem before.....Just cannot copy and paste photo to use on Power Point.

Such a shame.....my folks would have loved this quiz. I work with dementia/Alzheimer's folks virtually.......so printing out doesn't work for me.

You did a great job on this though!
Linda

Amazing Easter ideas!!! Thank you! Happy Easter to everyone :-)

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Easter Bingo

We love the different bingos as well but agree the similar pictures are confusing

This is a wonderful sight. Always look forward to searching out new things. I especially have been using all the trivia.

My residents absolutely love the armchair travel series!