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Julie
Wellness & Activity Coordinator
Wellness & Activity Coordinator
6 Fun & Easy Dice Games for the Elderly
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 e...
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Karen
Activity Professional
Activity Professional
Hello to all Activity Professionals. We went back to a full lockdown again. Residents are back into their rooms. So, does anyone have any new activities for residents who are once again having to s...
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Linda
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
The pictures shown here on golden carers are lovely scenes. They are busy pictures with a lot of detail. I have found using the works of australian artist drysdale the residents had great success in...
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Memories+
Seniors Day Program
Seniors Day Program
Brand Names & Slogans Quiz 2
Thank you for putting up a Canadian tribute.
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Australia Day Word Game
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: "AUSTRALIA DAY" WORD GAME
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Australian Quiz
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: AUSTRALIAN QUIZ
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Annemarie
Lifestyle Consultant
Lifestyle Consultant
Iced Tea and Cookie Pairing
Awww thank you Talita! I hope you enjoy it with your residents!!!
Appreciate your comment
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
ANZAC Day Song: Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching?
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: ANZAC DAY SONG BY PETER BARNES CALLED "CAN YOU HEAR AUSTRALIA'S HEROES MARCHING"'
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Lisa
Care Giver For Seniors
Care Giver For Seniors
30 Easter Celebration Ideas, Songs & Poems
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
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Food Riddles Quiz
Thanks Christine, glad you enjoyed it. Happy Easter to you. Gwyneth
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Linda
Virtual Programer
Virtual Programer
Guess the Classic Cars from Around the World
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 wou...
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Kelly
Receptionist
Receptionist
Is there a way to ask for movie suggestions? Our assisted living tenants prefer the movies we show have no sex, drugs, alcohol, swearing, violence....prefer funny if possible. I am kind of tapped out...
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Kim
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
Intergenerational Egg Hunt
Amazing Easter ideas!!! Thank you! Happy Easter to everyone :-)
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Newsletter Template - April 2026
Hi Rose
Thank you for your kind words
I know you will continue to enjoy this site
If you have any questions or would like to share an activity that you do feel free to do so
Thanks again
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Vicky
Celebrations Director
Celebrations Director
Easter Bingo Prizes
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Easter Bingo
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Chloe
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Hello all! I'm at a smallish Senior Center in a urban area. We recently reabsorbed operations as a city for the Center. I am needing to create the volunteer program from scratch. Does anyone have any...
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Rose
Activity Assistant
Activity Assistant
Newsletter Template - April 2026
This is a wonderful sight. Always look forward to searching out new things. I especially have been using all the trivia.
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Dawn
Service Coordinator
Service Coordinator
Armchair Travel to India
My residents absolutely love the armchair travel series!
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Christine
Activity Director
Activity Director
Food Riddles Quiz
Thank you so much Gwyneth! This is great!
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Lifestyle
Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Easter Sunday Posters
I downloaded it a week or so ago and it worked fine. 4 pages all colour - pretty. Now there is two pages only and the second page has happy easter on it and nothing else.
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
30 Easter Celebration Ideas, Songs & Poems
Hi Shelley
You have a great day as well
I am sure you are doing a fantastic job
Thank you for all you do
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Numbers Quiz
Hi Edale
Thank you for your kind words
Yes this is a great site with mini mini activities
We also are happy to answer any questions you may have
In addition if you have any activities you would l...
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5 years ago
All Things Bright and Beautiful Hymn
Thank you, as always, Gwyneth. We love the content you share x
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5 years ago
DIY Armchair Travel Postcards
Amazing! I love this idea ! Thanks so much for sharing Virginia!
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5 years ago
The Price is Right Visual Quiz - 60s & 70s
Wow a lot of work went into these quizzes Dorinda, thank you so much for sharing with us!
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Edale
Volunteer
Volunteer
Numbers Quiz
I've just joined Golden Carers and love all the options for the seniors' group I volunteer with.
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Shelley
Recreation
Recreation
30 Easter Celebration Ideas, Songs & Poems
Have a great day! You are all doing a fantastic job!
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Norma
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Easter Poster
Great Easter Poster we will laminate and use for placemats - thank you
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Tina
life enrichment manager
life enrichment manager
Hello. Any egg coloring ideas and easy crafts im a caregiver I have 4 diffrent clients. All in there 80s to 98 live to make stuff
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Easter Sing-Along
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Songs suitable for Easter - you may have different versions than these.
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Lindsey
Manager Of Residential Home For The Elderly
Manager Of Residential Home For The Elderly
I love the “on this day”... I use it every morning to get a good conversation going. Can I ask if there is a British version on the way?.. I tend to skip past a lot of the U.S material as it doesn’t r...
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Sandra
Leisure And Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Leisure And Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Anagram Quiz #5
I love the anagram quiz, our residents love them for our white board fun activity!!
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Dorinda
Memory Care Director, CDP
Memory Care Director, CDP
The Price is Right Visual Quiz - 60s & 70s
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: The Price is Right - 1970s
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
8 Activities for World Migratory Bird Day
Hi Teresa
Thank you for your kind words
It takes a good leader and it sounds like you’re one
Thank you for all you do
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
How to Run Successful Resident Council Meetings
Hi Anonymous
Thank you for all the valuable information you shared
Because each facility is so different and the ability of the residence is different and fluctuates
I think you can determine what...
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5 years ago
Paper Quilling
yes, all residents with a range of abilities managed to roll even those with limited eye sight
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Teresa
Activites
Activites
8 Activities for World Migratory Bird Day
I appreciate how accessable everything is to create worthwhile, mind opening, engaging absolutly wonderful activites for our friends. Our calendars are over flowing with so much variety their is some...
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5 years ago
Easter Wreath
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Easter Wreath
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5 years ago
How to Run Successful Resident Council Meetings
We have a resident council that has attained a certain amount of success by defining up front what we can and cannot change.
It helps if you have good manager to work with. Sometimes we invite our...
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Christie
Lantern Program Director
Lantern Program Director
Paper Daffodils for Daffodil Day
Going try this
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
All Things Bright and Beautiful Hymn
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: A nice little hymn for Easter called "ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL' - it can also be read out as a poem.
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Brandy
Activities Director
Activities Director
Easter Crossword - Secular
I appreciate the secular editions! Thank you.
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
10 Sensory Activities for Men
Hi Linda
Thank you for sharing this
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Dawn
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Lucky Dog Card Game
Our Lucky Dog that we play is 6 index like cards numbered 1-6, stacked in a pile . They can put them in any order they want. Then they roll the dice and it has to land on the number of their top card....
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Susan
Activities Co Ordinator
Activities Co Ordinator
Easter Sunday Posters
Tried to print the Easter posters o a few times but they won’t print
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Abbotts
Social Care
Social Care
Hi Everyone, I’m hoping some of you may be able to help me. I am an activities coordinator and we have a new resident joining us next week that is Latvian, she can’t speak English and I have been put...
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