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Vikki
manager
manager
I was just going through the activities for January and will use many of these fabulous activities.
I was looking into Mozart's Birthday listed as 6th Jan but noticed that his birthday is listed on...
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Hannah
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
What's In the Bag
Excited to try this with our Alzheimer's patients!
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Joy
Tenant Service Coordinator
Tenant Service Coordinator
I am so very glad that I found your website. Your range of activities are wonderful and so helpful to my programs. I am eternally grateful for your website. At some of my sites I have Spanish speak...
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Lauren
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Hi, I’m an activity co-ordinator at a resedential home in the UK specialising in dementia care. I have only recently come in to this job and did a lot of more special activities over the Christmas per...
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Vivian
Leisure & Lifestyle Coordinator
Leisure & Lifestyle Coordinator
What's In the Bag
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.
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Solange
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
Christmas Pantomime: Snow White & the 3 and a half Dwarfs!
Congratulations! What a great idea to include photos of the 'actors' in the Program. You are a champion!!
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simonne
Support worker
Support worker
How to Evaluate Care Plans & Write Quarterly Reviews
Thank you for this information. Really useful.
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Martha
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hi! I want to make up an activity cart that can accomplish a couple of things. One is to always have something at the ready for as few or as many people who might want to do something other than wha...
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Jean
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Renewed my membership as I really enjoy the site. The armchair travel is the 'best'
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Choose Your Own Adventure Fun
Have you tried this story
https://www.goldencarers.com/read-aloud-open-ended-story/4859/
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6 years ago
The Importance of Client Assessment in Residential Care
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 expe...
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Margaret
Retired Teacher
Retired Teacher
Choose Your Own Adventure Fun
What a great idea! Do you have any titles they especially liked? Are you using the Young Adult books? Thank you!
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Gina
Leisure And Health
Leisure And Health
Christmas Pantomime: Snow White & the 3 and a half Dwarfs!
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....
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Gemma
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Hi I'm an activities coordinator on a hospital ward for people dementia. What activities do you find the most active. I'm just planning and seem to do the same things day after day. I find something t...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
3 Inspiring Read Aloud Short Stories
You are right Angle
I am sure many ideas will be coming if you have any you want to share us please do
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Kevin
Activities Co Ordinator
Activities Co Ordinator
Thank you golden carers so glad i found about you the site is so helpful and easy to use wishing everybody a Happy New year.
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Angie
CNA/Activities Coordinator
CNA/Activities Coordinator
3 Inspiring Read Aloud Short Stories
I absolutely love everything about this website. So many fun ideas. Keep them coming.
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Ruth
Therapy Assistant
Therapy Assistant
Hello to everyone, I have just joined Golden Carers. I am a therapy assistant in a aged care facility (O.T.A.). I started a poetry reading activity about a few months ago. It has been going quite w...
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Gale
Resident Program Coordinator
Resident Program Coordinator
Countdown to Noon!
I had actually planned to do all this (noon, finger food, mock-mosa’s, live entertainment, party hats, tiaras and noise makers), except the balloon drop, at our community. I did get some complaints fr...
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Juliet
Lifestyle Therapy Team Leader
Lifestyle Therapy Team Leader
End of Year Message 2025
Well another year is coming to an end! Thank you golden carers and all of you out there for your invaluable activities ideas. Happy New Year to you all - looking forward to 2020 an all it may bring.
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Wolfeton
Residential Home
Residential Home
Create Your Own Quiz!
Great way of being able to link questions to specific interests.
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Joan
Activity Director
Activity Director
End of Year Message 2025
Thank you for all you do for us!
May the New Year bring you many blessings
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Yolly
Leisurea And Recreation Coordinator
Leisurea And Recreation Coordinator
Sip and Paint
How do you do this Please
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Laura
Activities Director
Activities Director
End of Year Message 2025
I am so grateful for this program and would be lost without it! I love the support group on Facebook and always look forward to the comments and concerns. Thank you for providing this valuable tool to...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Countdown to Noon!
I know it’s a little late but can you get an entertainer for the residents who are not going out
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6 years ago
Mozart's Birthday Creative Art Project
Hi Shelly, this activity idea was submitted by a member and a photo was not supplied unfortunately.
I think you would supply residents with a sheet of paper with a 'blank' musical staff on it as...
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Valerie
Activity Volunteer
Activity Volunteer
I’ve been a member for a year, I find Golden Carers an excellent source of information. Thank you for all the ideas and help over the last year. Looking forward to 2020.
Valerie White
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Sherlene
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Ring in the new year
This is another great idea! I will be using this next week! the Dollar Tree has the small bottles of sparkling grape juice that I can purchase a few of these!!
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Katja
Recreation Activiites Officer
Recreation Activiites Officer
Pot Luck Card Game
Where are the jokes/poems etc as in the photo?
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Ashlee
Lead Wellbeing & Lifestyle Coordinator
Lead Wellbeing & Lifestyle Coordinator
Lego Therapy
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Lego therapy
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Ashlee
Lead Wellbeing & Lifestyle Coordinator
Lead Wellbeing & Lifestyle Coordinator
Armchair Travel to Italy
When will the next month's country be released? I would like to inform our entertainers as in January they will include a few italian dances / songs.
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Sunya
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hello. I hope Christmas was kind to everyone. I like the Who Am I monthly birthday pictures i use them with different type of activities. Is there anyway you could create What Am I pictures of differe...
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Sharon
Activity Director
Activity Director
Countdown to Noon!
Great ideas. We have Bingo weekly here so on the 31st we're skipping Bingo and having cheese, crackers and pizza from 7-9pm. I advertised that residents can come down to mingle with neighbors or play...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Sip and Paint
You can play some classical music in the background and The residents paint to music
I’d like to serve food and drink after the activity because then it seems like the residents are more motivated to...
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ROBYN
LIFESTYLE ASST
LIFESTYLE ASST
End of Year Message 2025
l would like thanks everyone who made me job a lot easier with all the activities posted looking forward to 2020
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Shelly
CLC
CLC
Mozart's Birthday Creative Art Project
I don't understand the activity.
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Mary
Leisure And Lifestyle Coordinator
Leisure And Lifestyle Coordinator
End of Year Message 2025
Thank you for the wonderful, helpful resources you provide.
Merry Christmas to your team.
From Brisbane, Australia
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Atawhai
Diversional Therapy
Diversional Therapy
End of Year Message 2025
Merry Christmas to you and your team. We have so much fun with the activities that you share with our residents. May you be blessed this Christmas season and know that all your hard work is very much...
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Susan
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Christmas or Any Holiday Wreaths
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Christmas (or any holiday) wreaths
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Gina
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
End of Year Message 2025
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Golden Carers and all the wonderful people who give input and ideas. This has been so helpful and my residents love the activities. So from my clients and mys...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Create Your Own Crossword!
Another idea is to have the high functioning residents create a puzzle for the lower functioning residents
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Create Your Own Crossword!
Hi Trish
Here is a thought
You could create puzzles that you can print out and is there in large them I draw them on the whiteboard
For those who do not wish to come to the group or cannot you...
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Ursula
Registered Nurse, Wound Specialist
Registered Nurse, Wound Specialist
End of Year Message 2025
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Thank you to Golden Carers and to all it members. This website has been invaluable.
Warm Wishes
Ursula
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Kelly
Director
Director
End of Year Message 2025
Golden Carers has been my go-to guide for the past four years. It has been a pleasure reading what others are doing in their facilities and how I can add to our collection of activities at our facili...
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Kelly
Director
Director
Create Your Own Crossword!
Thank you so much for the crossord puzzle maker. This is going to help me a lot. I have to hand draw the puzzle on the white board, and with only a small amount of questions, I can draw it quicker....
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Maria
Health Care Assistant
Health Care Assistant
End of Year Message 2025
Happy Christmas and a peaceful new year to everyone and thank you for all the wonderful activities. Lovely site to be part of. Many blessings to you all Maria xxx
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NIU. S
Activities Co-ordinator
Activities Co-ordinator
End of Year Message 2025
Merry Christmas everyone.Wishing you all joy peace and love
Many blessings for 2020
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This website has been such a tremendous asset to me. Our clients have enjoyed picture bingo and quizzes and I'm looking forward to trying word ladders with them. I also print out crosswords and word searches and make up booklets for them to complete in their rooms. I will be definitely rejoining.
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