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I am starting a volunteer job in an Eldery home/hospital to support my upcoming Health and Wellbeing course. I am looking for activities ideas to occupy and entertain our residents. This is definitely one of the games I will be using. It sounds fun and creative. Thank you.

I do love the variety of fun activities offered by Golden Carers. The instructions given for the activities are clear, simple, and easy to follow. I am so happy that I chose this site. Thank you, Golden Carers!

My client is blind and has autism and Asperger’s. he is 27 years old and very limited to do anything. Doesn’t speak many words and likes to lash out every now and then. Need help on this matter.just some fun things to do

Hi Melissa would you be able to email the individual pictures to me please.

Joining Golden Carers was the best decision I have made when it come to engaging my residents. It think that was money well spent. This site helps me complete my calendar with all kinds of different activity ideas to improve the lives of seniors living with this terrible disease and keeping the busy working on things is very helpful to them. Thank you Golden Carers.

Life Engagement Director
Lawonder Markham

Excellent.. thank you :-)

Music is one of the tools I use however sometimes it is hard for me to find good exercise music. Any suggestions. I also ask one of the residents to run the exercise and I assist with anyone who needs assist.

you can cut up playing cards laminate them and then start matching up the pairs.

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Giant word search /crossword puzzles

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Modified Hedbanz Game

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Sightseeing Scavenger Hunt

There are free printable cards & you can also make your own cards then I use a spotify playlist for the songs
https://myfreebingocards.com/music

my residents loved this one...any chance we could have some more. please....thanks

Props are a great way to add variety. I usually run an exercise session ahead of another physical activity. For example, if we will be using bean bags for our challenges, then we also use them for our exercises.

Thanks Susan for your help. I think you mean that I print the blank grid, fill in the words by hand, add my list by hand, etc. Is that what you mean? Thanks

Hi Dee, we always had an activity going for at least half of the break. For instance, True or False games, Quizzes, read a short story, watch a TED Talk, read a few jokes, 'I Went to Market' type of game or reading some interesting Trivia. Having said, we did not interrupt if residents were interacting and the conversation animated.

Hi Esther, Welcome to Golden Carers! Thank you for your kind words.

At our facility we will be having an Elvis impersonator coming on Friday January 17th. He is really good too.

Why not interview a few residents also as the paps take photos on the red carpet ?

Do any of you do any events during your tea? We serve tea and sandwiches and cookies but do you play games?

The residents, staff and myself haven't laughed so much for a long time until we read the "Lost in Translation" activity quotes, we continued to smile for quite some after the activity had finished.

I think it is awesome that you have a Create My Own Word Search! My mother-in-law needs the simpler format as the easy one that you have provided. I really like the choices that you provide such as words only forward. My mother-in-law does better if the words to be searched are listed in two columns (DOWN, ACROSS.) So, I have a question: Is there a way that I can make the list of the words in two columns, one for DOWN and one for ACROSS? The other thing I noticed that when I searched for my words I used a green pen for the words that were DOWN and a red pen for words that were ACROSS. So my second question is there a way that I can add color to the words list? Thanks so much!

I've just joined and I am amazed!!! Everytime I go to this site I find more and more that I didn't see in previous visits. This will provide our Seniors Church group with many hours of fun! Thank you for all the fun things on this site!!!

I like these Find the Hidden Objects pictures! Unfortunately the pictures that are more hidden from view are too difficult for my mother-in-law with how form of dementia is progressing at this time. I hope to use it in the future for other folks. Thanks.

I recently played the game Barrel of Monkeys with my mom, and she loved it! She was engaged the entire time we played. On her turn she was well focused, and on my turn she suggested moves and encouraged me the whole time. <3

Someone explained to me once that you get a simple picture from internet (clip art or similar with thick lines and simple picture) print onto A3 then trace it and put it onto a large canvas.. put dots of paint into the sections of picture for resident to follow. They then over the black lines in thick black pen and tidied up painting if need be. They also painted over canvas afterwards if not wanted.

Do you have them mark one letter at a time or multiple

Hi Janice ,
What I did to make mine is I found some branches attached to a thick trunk ,which I then after cleaning it off set into a pot with plaster of paris ,once set I painted it ( I did ours white) or you could leave it natural ,then the residents decorated it with assorted leaves ,flowers ,snowflakes etc each season .Hope this helps

I love this idea, but I am having difficulties finding a Cherry Blossom Tree (faux). Thought about making one out of the stems…cost too much. Checked with Costco and they no longer carry this type of tree. Any suggestions???? Thanks.

Hi Melissa,
I would like the individual pictures please :)

Doing a winter activity- leaf collages.

Awesome idea I can't wait to put some scrapbooks together with old magazines.
I got a lot of old calenders donated, I am in the process of laminating and I am putting a variety of suggested questions for reminiscing sessions which they love.
I then put up to 10 pics in each folder for group sessions or one one ones.
Thankyou Golden Carers for inspiration.

We made this last year, it was a wonderful activity. We made it over a month, and residents would paint or crayon in the feathers when
they had nothing to do. When it all came together the colours look wonderful. Marina, Aranui

Thanks for the jokes can't wait to share some of them with our residents this afternoon.

We added a new feature to our Egg Bingo game and it's a lot of fun! I bought 18 small fish nets in the $2 shop (the ones for fish tanks, see the picture) and each resident or client try to catch his or her own ping pong ball when is call. We bounce the ball in the center of the table towards the client. They help each other, they clap when somebody gets the ball, they tease each other and interact a lot . It's a lot of fun!

Absolutely love this site. I have a lady who's just started 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 go Goldencarers

Hi we put a couple of sweets in the cup instead of fluid

thank you ,it is awesome

Excited to try this with our Alzheimer's patients!

I have done this with items to smell , fresh lavender, a mixture of herbs, lemon rind, clove of garlic and an onion we had some great and weird answers which created lots of laughs.

Congratulations! What a great idea to include photos of the 'actors' in the Program. You are a champion!!

Hi, I can think of three: 1 Confidentiality 2 Complaints 3, Residents’ Rights. They all have their own Policies & Procedures. If there is a problem with any of the above expert/professional help is required.

Thank you for this information. Really useful.

Hi there- In Ohio showing a movie is an activity---FYI

I'm stuck someone please help me last question to submit my unit

Organisations use procedures to standardise the processes for coordinating services for older people. What procedures would you expect to find to describe how to liaise with experts? List at least three processes that might have their own procedure.

It’s a great bingo game, thank you for your instructions and your ideas!

What a great idea! Do you have any titles they especially liked? Are you using the Young Adult books? Thank you!

Hi Laura, that you very much for your kind words. Have a safe and prosperous 2020!

We performed 'Snow 'White and the Maybe Seven Dwarfs" with resounding success. Our facility had never had a pantomime performed before, and the residents, staff, family and friends really enjoyed it. There was so much laughter and audience participation the wonderful cast forgot their lines on occasion, add libbing which added to the fun. We printed programs for everyone then handed them out on arrival to enhance the theatre experience. It included photos of the staff and their roll in the panto. It also had the words to the songs we chose which was more suitable for our residents.
As you can see by the title we changed a few things ( we ended up with eight dwarfs as more staff wanted to be part of the fun) including parts of the dialogue which worked well.
Thank you Golden Carers for all that you do to inspire and motivate us to try something different and fun.

I've had it 2 times a year. Third week in February and/or in October, if I don't get too busy.