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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
True or False Quiz #5
Thanks for your feedback Doug, Regards Gwyneth
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Rosita
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
The Green Quiz
The residents love the days when we have quiz sessions and thanks to Golden Carers we should never run out of questions for them to answer, thank you.
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Pot Luck Quiz 41
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: WORDS
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Carole
Chairperson
Chairperson
April Fools Trivia Quiz
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: April Fool Trivia Quiz
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Carrie
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Tattoo Artistry
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Tattoo Artistry
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4 years ago
HI Everyone!
Please help - I can't seem to download any of the calendar templates with their backgrounds.
As soon as I click on the "enable editing" option in Word, it defaults to a half blank scree...
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Barb
Senior Activity Coordinator
Senior Activity Coordinator
Hello everyone.
Just wondering about a Springy wreath to make with my seniors. I have alert Seniors who can be very crafty. Any suggestions?
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Darla
Recreation and Rehab Manager
Recreation and Rehab Manager
A big thank you goes out to Susan Berg from Nevada for her Group Exercise for the Elderly presentation or Activity.
Great Ideas for our Rehab Aides.
Appreciated,
Darla Spiry
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Rev Joseph
Chaplain
Chaplain
The Power of Silence in Senior Care
Drawing from the Article : Silence as an Oasis,Stiver, Tanya, N.J. Enfield, P. Brown, et.al., Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation, Proceedings of the National Academy of S...
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Chris
Activity Director
Activity Director
National Skilled Nursing Care Week 2022 , any ideas ??? I just started a new job and my budget isn't the best ....HELP!!!!!!
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Great Minds Think Alike Word Game
Hi again Rene
Was thinking about this and I was thinking of a way to get lower functioning and high functioning people involved
You could have high functioning resIdents Think of answers and write...
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Barb
Senior Activity Coordinator
Senior Activity Coordinator
Hello everyone.
Just wondering if anyone has tried to make a Easter Egg Wreath. Hot gluing the eggs maybe a challenge. I have volunteers to help, which is wonderful. It looks easy, but???
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Aleks
Life Enrichment Director
Life Enrichment Director
The Magic of Being Silly
We do a segment called "Friday Funnies", 15 minutes between classes where we just
tell jokes and funny stories. More often then not, I hear the residents repeating them in
the hallways and lunch roo...
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
True or False Quiz #5
Doug
I like the name minds in motion
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Group Art Project: Sunflower Collage
Wow Donna that is great thanks for sharing the picture
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Animal Quiz 2
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: An assortment of Animal Trivia
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Pot Luck Quiz 42
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: POT LUCK
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Doug
Fitness Trainer
Fitness Trainer
True or False Quiz #5
did this quiz in my Minds in Motion class today!
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Barb
Senior Activity Coordinator
Senior Activity Coordinator
Easter Bunny Baskets
Hello everyone
I'm looking for a simple Easter Egg to have school students color for coloring contest for my Seniors at the Dining Centers.
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Great Minds Think Alike Word Game
Very clever René
Thanks for sharing this
Can anyone think of a way to do this without the residents having to write the answers down?
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Betty
Activity Director
Activity Director
Great Minds Think Alike Word Game
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Great Minds Think Alike
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Famous Song Lyrics Quiz
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Lyrics from the songs are given - in what song would you find the lyrics
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Donna
Team Leader
Team Leader
Group Art Project: Sunflower Collage
This is a great activity for people of all abilities and we have done it with many day centre groups in past years.
One of our vision impaired clients was so happy she had been able to do this, that...
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Name That Tune & Singalong
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: NAME THAT TUNE......THEN ADD A SINGALONG
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4 years ago
How to Make Sensory Blankets for Dementia Care
Is it OK to crochet a fidget blanket ?
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
5 Ways to Spice Up Your Activity Calendar
Hi Lora
Thank you for this information
It is most helpful
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Tricia
Activity Director
Activity Director
St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt
Is there a scavenger hunt one for Easter or spring?
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4 years ago
Hi, I am looking for newsletter story ideas that can be reprinted, specifically ideas related to community living and activities.
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Maria
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Sanding & Painting Birdhouses
Thank you for an amazing site. I have used many of the activities and the residents really enjoy them.
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Lora
Lifestyle Enhancement Coordinator
Lifestyle Enhancement Coordinator
5 Ways to Spice Up Your Activity Calendar
Dementia Australia has an app called "A Better Visit".
You download it onto your I-pad and take it with you when visiting or engaging with a person with Dementia.
Its really great especially for s...
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4 years ago
How to host an Olympic Games Theme Day
We did a mini Olympics competition the week before Halloween. I had a obstacle course ready, and then we did some running competitions. Other events included egg and spoon race, a free archery display...
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Evangeline
Care Home Manager
Care Home Manager
Fads of the 1940s and 1950s
We have a lovely new Activity Co-Ordinator 'Hope' and she is thrilled with this site as it is making her role so much easier. This is one of my favourite activities to do with our residents as when th...
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Thuocla
Toba
Toba
Hi! I have been an Activity Coordinator at a 50 bed Seniors Lodge now for 4 1/2 years and love it! I have observed that I get the greatest gathering cooperation when there is food included and I was c...
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Sheila
Volunteer Coordinator
Volunteer Coordinator
Name that Tune Pictograms
thank you for this. our lovely residents absolutely love the picture quizzes.
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sarah-Jane
Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Lifestyle Co-ordinator
Spot The Differences - Mechanic
Thank you the residents love this activity
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Jose
Social Coordinator
Social Coordinator
Autumn Photographs
Thank you so much for all these great ideas.
The activities we can do in Autumn is a great help for the Covid restriction time
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Words in Words Group Game
Christina
Here are some other words and words game
https://www.goldencarers.com/search/?search_tag=Activity&search=Words%20in%20words Page one lists them
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Group Exercise for Seniors
Hi Kim
Thanks for sharing this information
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4 years ago
Words in Words Group Game
My mom and I have played this for years. But it's been awhile and I just thought she'd love if I randomly video chatted with her ready to play a game. But we're pretty even in skill and don't know wha...
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4 years ago
Any advice on how you’d divide your time in this situation?
I am paid only 4 hours in afternoons. We have around 23 residents at the moment. Up until recently we had some new residents and some p...
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Jennifer
Director Of Nursing
Director Of Nursing
Hi does anyone know where I can get Scripts for short plays for our drama activity, I used to have a drama teacher come in and bring a lot of great scripts for residents to play act. It was a lot of f...
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Kim
Recreational Coordinator
Recreational Coordinator
HI EVERYONE!
Im a newbie to making an activity calendar, I became a member to have the ease and simplex of the templates and Im having an awful time time with it so far.
does anyone have an...
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Elizabeth
Lifestyle Co Ordinator
Lifestyle Co Ordinator
Harmony Day Paper People
Thankyou,
I printed on Orange paper and made them for our display tomorrow at our residential home with lovely fresh orange flowers. Our residents will come together tomorrow to plant a orange tree...
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Linda
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
6 Spring Art Activities Your Residents Will Love
Great ideas
Thanks Haley
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Kim
Community Life Memory Care
Community Life Memory Care
Group Exercise for Seniors
We use pool noodles cut in half in several ways. If we play balloon volleyball the noodle extends their reach. We also use them in general exercise i.e. side to side when they are rowing a canoe. I...
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Jamie Chopan
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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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