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Dolores
RN
RN
10 Tips for Planning an Oktoberfest Party
I work in a geriatric psychiatric unit, so safety concerns are a big challenge. No balloons allowed, nothing hanging from ceiling or with long strings. Patients stay is usually short. Thanks for any a...
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Brenda
OTA
OTA
Poems to Share #2
Hello, i asked our residents if they would like to write a poem with me about spring.
i asked each resident to tell me something they love about springtime,and i put there comments into a poem about...
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Mary
diversional therapist
diversional therapist
American Indian Words Word Search
word searches are so popular with everyone
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Francis
Diversional Therapist
Recycled Magazine Scrapbooks
Our daily newspaper has a pet of the day photo in it with a amusing storyline added to it. I cut it out and when we have a pile the residents help paste them into a scrapbook. They enjoy looking thr...
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Kymberly
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Share your Jokes
The residents loved this one - There was an elderly lady standing on the street. She had both hands holding on to her hat, while the wind was blowing her dress up around her waist.
A dignified gentle...
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Sherlene
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
I would like to thank you for all the wonderful ideas that you share with us every month! there were times that I ran out of ideas but when I came upon your website on facebook it really changed my li...
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kareen
activities officer
activities officer
Baby Boomers Nostalgia Quiz - 1950s
my resis love quiz time and discussions....I will give them a topic to discuss and it creates so much conversation.. This nostalgia quiz will be great as they always like new challenges
thanks for t...
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Francis
Diversional Therapist
Funny Poems by Roald Dahl
Such a wonderful site. Full of great resources. So helpful to a new activities officer!
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Solange
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
Getting Schools Involved
One way to get children to participate in activities with elders is by contacting your local school. Ask to speak to the Art Teacher and inquire weather a group of children could come to do a proje...
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Kristen
Life Enrichment Manager
Life Enrichment Manager
Finish The Proverbs #1
I love this. Can't wait to use it tomorrow.
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Kristen
Life Enrichment Manager
Life Enrichment Manager
Learn to Sing in German
I love this. Thank you for sharing. Will definitely be trying this with my folks.
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Kristen
Life Enrichment Manager
Life Enrichment Manager
Getting Schools Involved
Nice post. Did they reach out to you to volunteer or did you reach out to them and ask them to volunteer? A few more details would be beneficial. ;) Thanks.
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9 years ago
15 Activities for Late-Stage Alzheimer's Disease
Using high school students to read to the person or sing (many students need service hours).
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Preserved fall leaves
Talita how are you?
Have you more ideas what activities can we do with Leaves. please?
Thank You,
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Shearee
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
I love this site... There is so much useful information and helps me on a weekly basis... BEST WEBSITE EVER!!
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9 years ago
Getting Schools Involved
What a beautiful mural Shearee! Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this activity.
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9 years ago
Colour Trivia - Australian Theme
Thanks for the feedback Faith! Stephanie did a great job with this quiz!
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Kylie
leisure and lifestyle officer
leisure and lifestyle officer
Talk like a pirate day!
I have made my own Pirate Ship Game. Each ship has its own name (pirate ship name of course). just have to attached the string to the front
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sandy
Lifestyle Coordinator
Lifestyle Coordinator
Songs for Seniors Quiz
Such a great lot of work, thank you so much.
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Faith
Diversional Therapist / Lifestyle Assistant
Diversional Therapist / Lifestyle Assistant
Colour Trivia - Australian Theme
I used this with our residents after getting a paper dice that I could stick together with set colours on it each resident took a turn and answered the question worked really well! be great to get mor...
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9 years ago
Free Music Playlists for the Elderly
What a wonderful idea. I'll be passing this one on to my resident family members.
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Shearee
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
Getting Schools Involved
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Getting schools involed
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Lisa
Carer & Activities
Carer & Activities
How to Plan a Movie Screening for Seniors
we started movie night popcorn and a glass of tiddly (sherry) if they fancy has been great each week someone picks a film and as a home we support there choice and all gather together to watch must sa...
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Cherrine
Diversonal Therapist
Diversonal Therapist
Australia: Reminiscing About Life In 1915
hi reminiscing is great fun anytime, i put together some sticks red/yellow paper put a flickering torch and made a fire, got a lantern from Kmart that is battery operated and we pretended to go campin...
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Judith
Activities Co-ordinator
Activities Co-ordinator
Bingo: Improving Quality of Life for Seniors
I play every week I bought a set of bingo cards copied the numbers onto a grid on A4 sheet so the numbers were as large as possible and just photocopy a sets of sheets from my original. Originally I h...
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Trish
Friendship Club Coordinator
Friendship Club Coordinator
Hi folks. With the onset of AFL/NRL/Soccer finals (in Australia) can you provide me with suggestions for a 'footy' activity for my high functioning PAG? I only have one day/week with my group so spac...
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Gail
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
AFL Team Emblems
This is a fantastic resource, is there any possibility of a similar one for the NRL teams?
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Sharon
Recreational Activities Officer
Recreational Activities Officer
Grandparents Day Anthem
I check every month to see what extra activities I can incorporate into our calendars to celebrate special monthly events and I am NEVER disappointed. Such great variety - Thank you :)
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Karen
Lifestyle Lead
Lifestyle Lead
Mixed Media Collages for the Elderly
Thanks for the idea, we will be presenting this to our clients as an option for our show entry for next year. Our idea is to use small individual canvases that will come together to create one large i...
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9 years ago
12 Joyful Activities to Inspire Laughter
Once again golden carers have practical ideas that bring inspiration to us all who work in aged care. Thanks golden carers for providing and sharing your knowledge.
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Acacia
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Good Morning! just like to say that we are really enjoying the Riddles its a great way to start the morning with my peeps. We use different colour pencil crayons to eliminate the words and I must ad...
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Jill
Developmental Support Worker
Developmental Support Worker
How to Celebrate the AFL Grand Final
We get Arrowroot biscuits and residents ice them in the team colours of the two AFL footy teams.
For example, we used black, red and white striped icing for St Kilda and Red, Yellow and Blue for the...
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Maria
Lifestyle Assistant
Lifestyle Assistant
AFL Team Emblems
This is a good website helps me a lot specially I am new in this field.
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Amy
Centre Coordinator
Centre Coordinator
Baby Word Search
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Baby- word search
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Kylie
leisure and lifestyle officer
leisure and lifestyle officer
Finish the Sayings and Proverbs Game
I did this and the clients had a ball. you should have seen the competitive streaks coming out when there was only a few left to pick !
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Michelle
Carer
Carer
Zeroes In Quiz
Played this game for our Excelsior club all the members enjoyed it . Thanks
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Kylie
leisure and lifestyle officer
leisure and lifestyle officer
AFL Team Emblems
I have been hunting the Op shops for footy scarves and jumpers to decorate our centre with. we have a hand ball game which we play and I have made a remembering game with all the teams logos. We hav...
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Pamela
Respite Carer
Respite Carer
Finish the Sayings and Proverbs Game
Have just joined the club and looking forward to some wonderful and interesting games for our lovely guests at the respite centre.
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Geraldine M
Lifestyle therapist
Lifestyle therapist
Dementia Care & The Physical Environment
Really helpful thought provking advice well done
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Sharon
Retired
Retired
Sensory Rain Sticks
Would love to find a story with group participation so they could use them in a story or a song
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Debby
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
Hi there
I love, love this site. I am from Canada and I was wondering if you have anything that pertains to our Country?
Thanks Deb
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Corazon
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Dementia Care & The Physical Environment
I have just written an essay on designing modern facilities for dementia long-term care and assisted living, whose focus is on the physical environment. You may want to have a look at Hogewyk Village...
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I am a Pinterest queen but needed new ideas. Thank you so much, this has helped me plan my calendar with ease. Well worth the money and I can use the pictures to make new concentration games that my residents enjoy. Again thanks so much.
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