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Andrea
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
This is great but there are not enough questions to fill 30 minutes.
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Nicole
Program Director
Program Director
Does anyone have a playlist they can share for this bingo?
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Meagan
Activities Director
Activities Director
Fun activity! We are in PA and I learned a thing or two!
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Jessica
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Thank you for this wonderful idea I just ordered this will be a Mother's
Day craft
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Kensington Club
Social Adult Day Program
Social Adult Day Program
Why don't you have a 1-2 sentence description of each landmark for the leader? Inevitably, the participants will ask about the landmarks. It would help with timing and effectiveness to have the descri...
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was easy yet hard but thanks for all you do. Love this site sooooo much.
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Miriam
Day Club Manager
Day Club Manager
This is a brilliant activity. The way you have embedded the musical videos allows engagement for all. Thank you!
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Dementia
Team Leader
Team Leader
Can we please have some New Zealand related one please
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Cath
Activities Officer
Activities Officer
Some of my residents enjoy mindful colouring, so I created this song lyrics colouring sheet using ChatGPT
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Tracey
Recreation Therapist
Recreation Therapist
Here's a list of the movies our residents love:
1. Benji
2. Poms (Diane Keaton)
3. June Again
4. The Intern (Robert de Niro and Anne Hathaway)
5. Man Called Otto (Tom Hanks)
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Ash
Leisure and Life Style assistant
Leisure and Life Style assistant
What do the residents spend their bingo bucks on ?
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Jane
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
We are going to use potatoes but I have shamrocks in green from last year so I’m going to dot them about the room on the floor ,get a spud on the shamrock
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Tammy
Activities Director
Activities Director
This was the best program ever! Thank you for creating this content. I work in a memory care and this was so inspiring to my residents.
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was fun, thanks so much.
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Jocelyn
Activity Director
Activity Director
I made my own... Sharing
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Jocelyn
Activity Director
Activity Director
Where are the images we can copy and laminate
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Sheila
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
Volunteer Arts/crafts Assistant
This was great, keep up the good work, love your site sooooooooo much.
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Sharon
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Thank you Talita. I really appreciate this, makes it so much easier.
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Janene
Lifestyle Assistant
Lifestyle Assistant
Great work just wondering when the rest of the rounds will be available to round 24
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Philip
Lifestyle Coordinator
Lifestyle Coordinator
Hi there
I was looking for activities to do for June, and I saw The Royal Family Bingo still has Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Given the recent current news surrounding these two ex-members of th...
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Carla
HCA Activity Assistant
HCA Activity Assistant
Don’t show the photo right away
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Balhousie
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Hey, I’m looking to find some dot-to-dot printouts for some of our residents to do who have dementia. Do you have anything like this? I’m struggling to find anything. Thanks
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Yarri
Leisure & Lifestyle
Leisure & Lifestyle
wonderfully made & easier for our clients to see.
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Denise
CTRS
CTRS
I did this activity and it went amazing well. I though my residents would struggle with the abstract nature of it, but they connected with the concept/prompts easily.
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Susan
Activities Dir
Activities Dir
Hi Stephanie, a quick question from us at the Villa Maria. What program did you use to create your cards? We are trying to make a very heavily tailored version for our residents and I am struggling to...
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Denise
CTRS
CTRS
I love these stories - I find it is helpful to have each participant have a large print of their line in their hand. Ao also add it the names more often in the story to provide additional opportunity...
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Scott
Lifestyles Director
Lifestyles Director
Today is my first day with Golden Careers. As the Activities Director at an Assisted Living/Memory Care facility it can somethings be difficult to think of new entertaining things for our residents to...
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Rosita
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
The variety of Bingo games available for residents has resulted in an increase in numbers wanting to be included in the games.
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Kelly
Head of Care
Head of Care
Hi,
I work for ADSS(Alzheimers and Dementia Support Serives) a charity and we do Kareoke sing along with people living with dementia and they are finding it difficult to sing without the actual song b...
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Connie
Activity Director
Activity Director
This is a great activity but is it possible to be able to print full size pictures? The pictures are just too small for my residents to accurately judge what the picture is representing.
Thank you!
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Charlotte
Manager
Manager
I can not find the sing along part to this.
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D'Ayrne
Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Huge thank you for this! Saved us so much time!
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Jennifer
Recreation Assistant
Recreation Assistant
the first video is private :(
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Tanya
Activities officer
Activities officer
This is very creative. I cant wait to try it out on my residents.
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Advent
Administration
Administration
Are the newsletter templates available in Tabloid Size to match the calendars?
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Ash
Leisure and Life Style assistant
Leisure and Life Style assistant
Hi everyone,
I'm having trouble engaging a resident that has become deaf. He is in good spirits but to explain anything to him is almost impossible. We have a white board which we use to communicate...
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Wendy
Activities Associate, Memory Care
Activities Associate, Memory Care
Any ideas for what to use instead of air hockey pushers?
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Middle Swan
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
I would like my beautiful Residents to play this, but it shows the answers first, would it be possible for the author to change this showing the questions first? Thank you so much
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Kathleen
Clinical Nurse Manager
Clinical Nurse Manager
Some of your puzzles use too much paper and colour ink
Pictures and one question per sheet of paper is a waste of resources
I do not use puzzles if they require more than 10 sheets of paper per person...
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Adreanna
Activities Director
Activities Director
Has anyone done a murder mystery with their residents?
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