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Faye
Recreation Coordinator
Recreation Coordinator
i was trying to make the images bigger but couldn't
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was fun thanks so much. Love the site so much.
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Vista Centre
Day Program
Day Program
Needs to be more illustrative. Pictures added will made it an excellent exercise.
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Carol
Lifestyle and Leisure Co-ordinator
Lifestyle and Leisure Co-ordinator
Thank you so much for the clear score cards. When are the next round coming out from Round 15 please
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Park Place
Life Enrichment
Life Enrichment
Not many know some of these branches?
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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Can you add Pretty Woman to this list? It has great drumming in it.
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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
This is GREAT! Can you add more songs to it?
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2 months ago
was quite difficult for most of my group. Better suited for high-functioning group.
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Sharon
Lifestyle assistants
Lifestyle assistants
These activities can be easy or more difficult depending on the group. They are great examples
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Kelly
ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR
ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR
I really appreciate the hard work Golden Carers puts into the ARMCHAIR Presentations. It is a wonderful part of my weekly Activity Calendar. My residents would like to see more US states, but I say we...
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Mary
Managing Director
Managing Director
Great idea to get the brain going! Love it!
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Mary
Managing Director
Managing Director
Lovely content but I can't seem to print the answers for doing a visual quiz. A lot of my residents enjoy having a picture with a question on one side, and an answer on the other. Not sure if this can...
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Pam
Managing Director
Managing Director
Brilliant - thank you so much!
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Leah
Lifestyle Coordinator
Lifestyle Coordinator
Can you create travel to Armania?
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Laura
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
Used this in our Adult Day Program and it was awesome.
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Debra
Lifestyle Assistant
Lifestyle Assistant
My residents love to colour and paint, can anyone out there advise how I can put images onto canvas to have as a guide for them.
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Cheryl
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
My residents love flower quelling, they cant believe how nice they turn out and so easy to do. We made a big red heart full of roses, for valentines day
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Pamela
RN
RN
I think updating and bringing us into the 21st century would be good.
Hardly any of my clients know about the 1400's.
More music expanding with all genre of music would be nice.
Happy Birthday celeb...
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Maeve
Activity Co Ordinator
Activity Co Ordinator
Maybe a little too simple, eg penguins can fly might be harder
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Amanda
Group Leader
Group Leader
What a brilliant “pack”- much appreciated! I run a group where we sometimes have outside speakers- but this is a fantastic resource in case they don’t appear!
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Ashwin
Lifestyle Co-Ordinator
Hi, These weekly Footy Tipping printouts are great. Could you please provide the rounds from 15 until the end of the season. Thanks
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Lysiane
Activities assistant
Activities assistant
I am doing an armchair travel program and need information on Napa Valley. Does anyone have any suggestions where I can find information?
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Teagan
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Can't wait to do this with my residents! :)
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Brittany
Activity Director
Activity Director
I'm new to the website, and I'm trying to figure out how to create 2 different calendars for different parts of my facility. Does anyone have any help to offer? Thanks!
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Bev
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
We did this activity and our group absolutely loved it.
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2 months ago
For everyone that enjoyed this activity, a name the band version is now available:
https://www.goldencarers.com/name-the-band-pictionary/96078
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Farmington Station
Programming Team
Programming Team
We enjoyed quiz immensely but you forgot goat and Swiss cheese!
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Tracy
Memory Care Activities coordinator
Memory Care Activities coordinator
Hilarious. We did a poetry activity reading Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken and discussing with simple questions what it could mean, and we added this song where the residents recited the lyrics and...
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2 months ago
I am loving all these new great ideas!! I absolutely love Golden Carers and am so grateful to have this resource!
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Middle Swan
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
This is good, could you please make this as a slideshow. Thanks
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Rosa
Recreation
Recreation
So cute! A great adaptation of the “god’s eye”
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Eyvonne
Day Centre Care Assistant
Day Centre Care Assistant
Took me some time to print, laminate and glue the lollipop sticks on but it was soooo worth the time. Clients in our day centre just loved it and had so much fun. Thank you!!!
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
If you want to make this activity, even easier, get some tissue paper and have some of the residents ripped into strips Then put a flower piece of straw and then a strip of tissue paper that can be sc...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
I am from Massachusetts and we celebrated Patriots’ Day
I know that most states do not celebrate this our holiday but it’s fun to remember this day
I especially like to read Paul’s Reveres Ride
http...
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Elizabeth
Activity And Volunteer Coordinator
Activity And Volunteer Coordinator
This is SO well done! Thank you!
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Vicky
Celebrations Director
Celebrations Director
Driving Miss Daisy was a hit.
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Andrea
Activity Co Ordination At Senior Group
Activity Co Ordination At Senior Group
Thank you - I did this activity with our rest home residents. They loved it so much they kept colouring for most of the day. :-)
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M&M
ADP Coordinator
ADP Coordinator
Wonderful Activity!!! The day Program clients loved guessing the song and then we sang the song as well. Thanks for sharing
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Jane
Office Manager
Office Manager
i don't really understand the answer to the 3rd question- What was Buzz Lightyear's original name? the answer is supposed to be english?
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Lisa
Enrichment Coordinator
Enrichment Coordinator
Is there visuals to go with the instructions, or is this just a suggestion?
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Norma
Assisted Living
Assisted Living
Thank you are very fun ideas, thanks for all it is wonderful
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Eileen
Director dementia respite prog.
Director dementia respite prog.
Birds in New York State, USA
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Katrine
Leisure and Lifestyle
Am going to try this activity next week it looks fun.
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King Island
ADC
ADC
My residents loved this game !🫶 I struggled with the game resetting after playing the s ongs ( I’m very new to computers lol 😂)
And only a couple of the songs has the lyrics , would of been good to...
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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
Can you provide a list of songs to drum to? We have tried this activity previously and the songs were not quite right. Would love to see a link to connect to songs that work well.
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Dawn
Activity Director
Activity Director
This game, using two decks, is too slow for our residents, as it takes too long to produce winners. I play a shorter version by deleting some (the same) cards from both decks, especially for a smaller...
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I always appreciate your new ideas and suggestions. They certainly help immensely with creativity and ideas. Keep up the wonderful emotional support you provide!
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