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Mary
Activity Director (ADTXCCDP)
Activity Director (ADTXCCDP)
The Seven Stages of Alzheimer's Disease
What a wonderful article! My Alzheimer residents are my passion. Thank you for sharing
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Jayleen
Activity Assistant
Activity Assistant
Clothing Reminiscing Presentation
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member
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Ruth
Site Mgr
Site Mgr
Give Me Five
This a a great game, on Tuesday and Thursday at our senior center we play "Thanks for the memories" (memory/brain games). This is game is perfect to help our clients with recall memory because it alwa...
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BlueCare
Diversional Therapist
Diversional Therapist
Lucky Door Prize - With a Twist
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Lucky Door Prize (with a twist)
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Carman
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Dice Bingo
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Dice Bingo
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Carman
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Roll It, Play It
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Roll It Play It
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
A Day at the Office Bingo
Hi Sara
I love these creative bingo games you make
You can use them in so many ways besides playing bingo
Thank you
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Types of Flowers Word Scramble
Hi Carmen
Thank you for sharing this
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Pauline
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Modified Beer Pong
Just finished playing this with our residents, we had a great morning, they've named the game 'Beaker Ball' :)
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5 years ago
A Day at the Office Bingo
Absolutely love your bingo games Sara, thanks for sharing!
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Darla
Recreation and Rehab Manager
Recreation and Rehab Manager
6 Tips for Writing a Self-Assessment
Thank You for providing a report of 6 Tips for Writing a Self-Assessment. This report comes at a time when many in my filed are short staffed and overworked covering many jobs at once. In the field...
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Sara
Lifestyle Enrichment Coordinator
Lifestyle Enrichment Coordinator
A Day at the Office Bingo
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: "A Day at the Office" Bingo
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Carman
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Types of Flowers Word Scramble
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Types of Flowers Word Scramble
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Nancy
Activity Program Supervisor
Activity Program Supervisor
6 Tips for Writing a Self-Assessment
I love all the great ideas! Thank you Nancy
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
Walker Slingshot Game
Hi Diane
Thank you for sharing your experience
It sounds like you had a lot of fun
Keep up the good work
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Diane
Activity Coordinator
Activity Coordinator
Walker Slingshot Game
I tried this at Happy Hour on Friday and it was a huge hit! A couple of the men gave me tips on how to hold the stretchy band and how to aim. The whole room was laughing at my bad attempts! Several...
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Daria
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
Match Pictures with Shows
I have been enjoying your free article and must say they were very good.
I have convinced our admin financer to buy a subscription .
We love the stuff here and so does our patients.
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Max Bygraves - Finish the Song Titles
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: MAX BYGRAVES - Let's go down Memory Lane. Finish the song titles.
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5 years ago
12 Tips for Writing Progress Notes
Hi everyone
Is any one can help me to write a month progress note . For a resident who who does verbalise,very frail who previously lost the ability to use her left thumb to communicate yes or no ....
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5 years ago
15 Uplifting Activities for People with Limited Mobility
My husband has Alzheimer’s along with Adisons, diabetes, illeostomy, and small tumour, on his kidney, and is awaiting to have a cancer removed from his face. I am finding what I can do to give him a b...
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Sandy
Activities Director
Activities Director
I have recently taken over the Position of Activites manger. This will be the first Resident Council I have to hold. Any suggestion would be great.
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Lisa
Activity Director
Activity Director
Book Titles Word Search
I can not get the pdf files to work in word
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Pot Luck Quiz 26
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Trivia
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Sherry
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Fishing Game
You could also number the fish and have them try to catch them in order of how they go. This would work for residents that are more alert and oriented. Also you could choose to mark Zoink on the back...
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Vicky
Activity Co Ordinator
Activity Co Ordinator
Artist Impression - Henri Rousseau - 02
Our residents love the historic write up
And the taking time to
Copy the pictures . We love our Monday art times
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Kristy
Support Worker
Support Worker
Hi everyone,
I work in a hospital setting and am trying to put together a memory support trolley for when we have patients through with dementia. The problem is that whatever is on the trolley, ne...
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Nancy
Activity Program Supervisor
Activity Program Supervisor
Color By Numbers - Rose
Thank you for the color activity. The residents love it! Nancy
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Anastasia
Activities Coordinator
BBC Reminiscence Archive
What a wonderful resource, thank you so much for sharing with us all!
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5 years ago
Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway Musicals Song Titles Quiz
Thank you Gwyneth, you make the lovliest quizzes!
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5 years ago
Olympic Games PowerPoint Presentation
Thank you so much for this John, what a great activity!
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
How to Create an About ME Profile
Hi Meg
These are great and very useful
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
How to Create an About ME Profile
Hi Meg
These are great and very useful
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Jayne
Director
Director
How Many? Number Quiz
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: HOW MANY?
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Brenda
Activities Director
Activities Director
Wet T-shirt Contest
I like the name. That alone would spark laughter among our residents!
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Ann Marie
lifestyle coordinator
lifestyle coordinator
Funny statements given to insurance companies
Thank you so much for all your excellent content. When I run out of time for the planning of an activity, I jump online and access your materials which do all the hard work for us. Keep up the good wo...
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Yvonne
Respite Care
Respite Care
Pipe Ball Game
What a great activity which everyone can take part and fun.
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John
Activites Manager
Activites Manager
Olympic Games PowerPoint Presentation
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Olympic Games PowerPoint Presentation
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Sally
Activities Coordinator
Activities Coordinator
I work in an Aged Day Centre and we are doing a Virtual Tour down the local river during August. It is almost organised but I would love to have a few fun games up my sleeve. Can anyone suggest some g...
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Meg
Project Officer
Project Officer
How to Create an About ME Profile
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Developing an About ME one page profile
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Sharon
Activities Director
Activities Director
This is my go to site. I have looked at the others, but Golden Carers has a sense of fun and
creativity that makes the activities we do enjoyable for all. They are adaptable for all levels .
We did...
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Gwyneth
Volunteer
Volunteer
Complete the Poems Using a Rhyming Word
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Think of a word to rhyme with the words in CAPITALS to finish the poems
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Susan
Activity Director
Activity Director
How to Plan a Movie Screening for Seniors
Hi Brenda
This is great
You are very lucky to have a movie theater
Thank you for sharing
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Fiona
Life Style Coordinator
Life Style Coordinator
Words in Words Group Game
We love this game, it would be great if golden carers would make a large word list for this activity, for inspiration and because of time limits. Thank you golden carers :)
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Diane Aisbett
Lifestyle Coordinator
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I have recently started my new position of Lifestyle Coordinator working with elders. I decided to join Golden Carers for activity ideas and chat forums. It has been the most wonderful experience and has helped me immensely with the endless ideas and activities. I especially like the monthly calendar templates. It is an invaluable resource!
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