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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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Linda
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
10 Sensory Activities for Men
I find footy tipping for the entire season is very time consuming. I do footy tipping only on the main games and make payouts for those games featured for footy tipping all tips are gathered the...
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LEEANN
Age Care
Age Care
Word Game: Right Side Up - Upside Down
I did this with my group this morning as a different white board quiz. They really enjoyed the challenge of the different letters. Thanks for the idea.
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Lexie
Activity Director
Activity Director
Twister Bean Bag Toss
I play this game a lot! They absolutely love it!
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Jean
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
I have 3 or 4 men who are 'talkers' rather than 'doers' that are very difficult to engage in activity. One of them is an ex teacher, I found the activity 'What would YOU do' on this site, downloaded s...
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Renate
Caregiving Team
Caregiving Team
Hi, I am new to the site. I signed up in hopes that I could download activities to use on zoom with our seniors. I would like to invite them to the armchair trip to Ireland on March 18. Since I am not...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hedgehog Book Art
Hi Valerie
Thank you for sharing this
You can also use these for ground hogs day in February in the US
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Tracy
Activities/ House Keeper
Activities/ House Keeper
13 Reminiscing Themes for Seniors
Hi this website help me a lot to plan my activities every week.
Going to try this activities tomorrow. Lovely to see everyone join in. Thank
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Janet
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
How to Use Activity Surveys to Improve Resident Engagement & Program Planning
Love all the ideas if I run out I can always count on you thank you
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Valerie
St Michael's Day Care Centre Manager
St Michael's Day Care Centre Manager
Hedgehog Book Art
we did this with our group at beginning of 2020 it was brilliant. I had to practice at home and it took time but everyone was soo happy with the end product and still have them sitting on the shelf....
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Hayley
Activities Lady
Activities Lady
I am trying to put together a photo consent form can you possibly help?
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Julie
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
Hello everyone
I would like to hold a short Easter service this year for our residents, most of who are living with dementia.
Any ideas of hymns, prayers etc?
I was able to think of ideas for Har...
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Sherry
TRT
TRT
How to Use Activity Surveys to Improve Resident Engagement & Program Planning
I would love to see this survey, however do not have word available to me, we only have google docs. is there any way you could send it to me for google docs?
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Old-Time Music Quiz
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: MUSIC QUIZ
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Angela
Support Worker
Support Worker
10 Sensory Activities for Men
Thanks for the positive comments. I find using the footy or any club season as an anchor for other activities encourages communication in a fun and relaxed atmosphere where we don't judge, we just en...
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Tonia
Lifestyle Coordinator
Lifestyle Coordinator
Spring Bunny Topiary
I think those topiary bunnies look perfect just as they are. thanks for sharing :-)
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Gillian
House Wife
House Wife
Creative Thinking Exercises
I love this site. Thank you so much for providing such great activities!!
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5 years ago
Cue Cards for Dementia Care
I appreciate that you were offering this information. I wondered why black and white images are preferred. Perhaps it's because it's the simplicity of the design. And the cost for printing. I just won...
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Short Story Jokes #13
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: FUNNY STORY - LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTOR
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Adrienne
Activities And Volunteer Coordinator
Activities And Volunteer Coordinator
I Love You A Latte Coffee Cart Inspiration
Suggestion: You could organize different genre of Christmas accompanied by the setting(Christmas setting) for each unit bearing in mind the population(Ethnicity and Popularity).
THIRD FLOOR SUGGES...
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Viktorija
Business Development Manager
Business Development Manager
Hi all. what ideas/activities could you suggest to organise and add on the activities schedule for the days when the care home does not have activities coordinator? at the moment we have to rely on th...
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Happiness Quotes
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: QUOTES ABOUT "HAPPINESS" Could have a good discussion with these quotes
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Food Riddles Quiz
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: FOOD RIDDLES------------------wHAT IS IT?
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Kae
Manager Lifestyle
Manager Lifestyle
10 Sensory Activities for Men
Thankyou very helpful
Kayanne
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Hilma
Nurse
Nurse
I would like to ask DT's, lifestyle carers etc, what time does your working day start and could you provide me with a typical run down on your day please, say for a 40 bed unit with high and low care...
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Lucan Lodge
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Hi Guys,
I am an Activity Coordinator for 1,5 year and I would love if someone is sending me an example of a activity plan for a resident, like how do you plan it
Just because when I took over the...
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The Red
Activities
Activities
Words Starting With Game
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Words starting with.....
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Create Your Own Quiz!
Hi Cristi
Thank you for this information
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5 years ago
How to make Twiddle Muffs for People Living with Dementia
Is there a place in Scotland or Aberdeen I can make these for
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
St Patrick's Day Poster
Hi Mercedes
Thank you for your kind words
I agree there are many great activities here
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Pamela
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Collection of Fun Riddles
thank you so much for the great fun rhyming riddles our residents just love it.
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Lesleah
Christian Science Nurse
Christian Science Nurse
Create Your Own Quiz!
We love that we can personalize any of the quizzes you have added this feature to!
One example: We've taken your Proverbs Quiz(zes) and made them into a Create-Your-Own-Proverb kind of activity (beca...
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Emma
Social Group Coordinator
Social Group Coordinator
Hi
We have recently updated our laptop and it unfortunately does not have cd capability. We used to play a seat exercise DVD.
Are there any websites that have free access to seated exercise videos...
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Jamie
Recreation Director
Recreation Director
Irish Carpet Bowls
We had a ton of laughs doing this today. Carpet Bowling is a favorite we play a couple of times a month. This was a wonderful twist!! Thank you for the idea!
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5 years ago
Games for People Living with Dementia
Hello all,
This is my first post, I’ve been an activities co-ordinator now for only two weeks, I’m struggling to motivate the men in my home, I work with elderly mentally ill with challenging behavio...
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Tina
life enrichment manager
life enrichment manager
Hello I am a caregiver I need ideas of things to do for fun activity for parkinsons...he walks ok and he also likes challenges things to do. I like this app because i can do things indiviual ..
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