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Janelle
Therapeutic Recreation
Therapeutic Recreation
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Dots Game
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4 years ago
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Dairy Word search
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Thank you Lisa, glad to hear the residents and yourself enjoyed them. being an oldie myself, I love the old songs. Regards Gwyneth
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Lisa
Activities for Seniors
Activities for Seniors
GOOD INFORMATION
THANK YOU
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hi Rochelle
Thank you for your kind words
Glad your residents like all this site has to offer
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4 years ago
Hello I'm here looking for some activity's to do with my memory care residents who don't really like to do anything very much. would you have any ideas on what I could do or create do more activity's...
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Alexandra
Senior Recreation Therapist
Senior Recreation Therapist
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: NAME THE CANADIAN ANIMAL QUIZ
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ROCHELLE
Retired
Retired
I thank everyone who has contributed to this wonderful website! Over the last few months it has made my life much easier and myself feeling so much better as I age right along with everyone else.
I...
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Angela
Support Worker
Support Worker
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Male First Name Quiz
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Wow
I just want to thank all the members who are sharing great activities with the rest of us
Again thank you so much
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hi Elisabeth
Glad this site is so helpful to you
Feel free to ask any questions that you may have because this is a group very kind creative and helpful members
Thank you for sharing
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hi Renate
Glad this website is so helpful to you Feel free to ask questions
Sorry that you had a stroke and you have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease but it sounds like you are doing the best...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hi Rosita
Glad this website helps you at your job
Many others I agree with you that this website is very helpful to them also
Thank you for sharing
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Rosita
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
With limited time to develop many activities I have once again found so much help with the activities I can down load and are enjoyed so much by the residents, it is wonderful.
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Janelle
Therapeutic Recreation
Therapeutic Recreation
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: What Am I?
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Janelle
Therapeutic Recreation
Therapeutic Recreation
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Candy Bingo
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Angela
Support Worker
Support Worker
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Edinburgh Quiz
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Emily
Pcw
Pcw
hello, my residents are enjoying the word ladders could we request some more please
thank a lot.
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Diversional Therapist Team
Diversional Therapist Team lead
Diversional Therapist Team lead
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Elder Abuse Awareness Scavenger Hunt
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Liora
Lifestyle Assistant
Lifestyle Assistant
That's a great presentation, pronots remenicing .
Thank you very much.
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Renate
Retired
Retired
Hello my friends,
I am an 82 year old senior. While searching the net on mind games for seniors, I came across the golden carers website. Although I am not a caregiver, I always cared about people....
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4 years ago
Please accept my thanks for this list of song lyrics. Your time and effort is very much appreciated by us all and we intend to have a great time singing together at St Joseph’s.
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Simran
Wellbeing Asistant
Wellbeing Asistant
I had run the mens group as in outing to sports bar or Bunnings for coffee I didn’t have big group but still I got 3 men in that which were very much look forward to go out for theee type of activitie...
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Craig
diversional therapist
diversional therapist
Recently held a sensory herbs and spices activity based around winter cooking conversations
Patients at our Rehab Hospital loved it.
I picked from my garden, parsley, corriander, mint, chives, thym...
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Elizabeth
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
I’m new to the role of Activities Coordinator and came across this website by chance. I joined within minutes and am already champing at the bit to get to work so I can start using all these amazing i...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Hi Gwyneth
I am so impressed by all the wonderful activities you are sharing
Thank you
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Wow Bev
This is great
Summer in the US is a great time to talk about butterflies and share these beautiful pictures
March 14 is national butterfly day o also a great time to talk about butterflies...
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: JUMBLED FRUIT
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Angela
Support Worker
Support Worker
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Women's names
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Bev
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: ALL ANSWERS START WITH TRI
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Bev
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: UNJUMBLE WORDS - ALL TO DO WITH HEALTH AND BODY
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Bev
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: UNJUMBLE WORDS RELATING TO INSPIRATION
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Bev
Activity Co-ordinator
Activity Co-ordinator
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: ANALOGIES
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Mila
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Sincerely happy being a member to Golden carers . The support and ideas on activities are marvellous. My residents love them.
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Tathra
Residential Care Co Ordinator
Residential Care Co Ordinator
Thank you for the wonderful content.
I can always find inspiration on your pages xx
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Becky
Life Enrichment Director
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Butterfly Trivia & Answer
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Anita
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
I do this by purchasing a few items, (save the receipt for proof of cost)
Then print/write a shopping list to give to clients. They then put the price they think each item costs and then total the c...
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Jean
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Many years later, I'm going to slip this in to my program. Thank you
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Krista
Lifestyles Director
Lifestyles Director
Fish stories. Sit around the Fish tank and have each resident say one sentence about the fish. The activity associate writes down each line until they have, as a group, created a story about the fishe...
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Beth
Activities Co Ordinator
Activities Co Ordinator
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: National Biscuit Day
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Jean
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Next week the residents will have a chance to 'explore ginger' in an activity. We will serve ginger loaf, a ginger biscuit, a piece of crystallised ginger and a glass of ginger beer. I also do a fortn...
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Tammy
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Sewing Bingo
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Edie
Life Enrichment Specialist
Life Enrichment Specialist
I am trying this game today with some higher functioning residents. I will award the point to the one whose answer is different from all the rest. Let's see who can come up with the most unique answ...
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Linda
Virtual Programer
Virtual Programer
This playlist for the Old Crooners is amazing! Oh, how
I wish I could bring it to my ol'folks.
I've tried saving it to Spotify, but I can't get on Spotify
because I have another program ??? whic...
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Dayani
Lifestyle Coordinator
Lifestyle Coordinator
Absolutely love this website. So many ideas and activities you can find for us to do our job efficiently and effectively. I think this is a really worth website for whoever working in the activities f...
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Teresa
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Thanks for posting this! Great activity for July
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Donna
Nurse
Nurse
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Crooner lyrics game
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Whittney
Recreation Coordinator
Recreation Coordinator
I thank you so much for having these newsletters! My residents and their families just love it and I like how I can just add and edit to my liking!
I appreciate all you do on this site, and love i...
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Torbay Lifestyles
Leisure & Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Leisure & Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Hi all, for those of you who use Icare, what kind of information are you entering into 'my daily routine' on the resident's profile? Does anyone have a template questionnaire for this? I've tried goog...
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