How to Plan a Movie Screening for Seniors
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If you don’t already run regular movie screenings at your facility, try it out! All you need is a large screen, some good speakers, and of course popcorn and ice cream to add to the cinematic experience!
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Add BEING THERE to this list of movies...very charming indeed
Hi Brenda
This is great
You are very lucky to have a movie theater
Thank you for sharing
We are fortunate to have a theater at our facility and schedule a Wednesday movie night and resident attendance has been very good. A few gentlemen residents enjoy western movies, so a few weeks ago we showed "Way out West" a Laurel & Hardy movie, had a popcorn/beverage intermission, and then watched "Stan & Ollie"a 2018 movie. The residents enjoyed, and every week look forward to 6:00 movie night.
Can someone tell me what they watched the film on was it a large TV, I would love to get a big white screen to show it on but not sure how this would work, Thank you
Hi Julie
I think most places have a large screen TV that they use
A lot of places have the TV affixed to the wall
Hi, you can add Mamma Mia (2008). My residents loved this movie. It's a comedy musical lovestory. They were all looked happy after they've watched it.
Oh yes that's a great movie, thank you Kim! We have that one in our 100 Movies for the Elderly to enjoy article https://www.goldencarers.com/100-movie-recommendations-for-seniors/3902/
Is Pixar movies ok for skilled residents? Like finding memo, monsters inc, etc.
Hi Colby, Pixar movies have become all-time classics enjoyed by children and adults. Despite being made for children they have captured the hearts of multiple generations with their focus on parenting, relationships, kindness, loyalty, and bravery. Pixar movies are very appropriate for elderly people.
I just recently showed my folks in Memory Care, "Wild Hogs" I had for gotten how much language there was and the nude scene, but they thought it was hilarious!
regarding clients from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds,
in the old age home where I work there are clients not speaking the same languages at all.
we started a movie night once a month, and we're showing movies such as Mister Bean, Charley Chaplin, where language isn't an issue :)
if you have more ideas I'd love to here :)
Noam, from Israel.
Hi Noam, thank you for sharing, great idea for a multi-cultural care facility. You may add to your repertoire Buster Keaton, Marx’s brothers and Laurel and Hardy. There are some excellent YouTube shorts movies available. All the best!
That's a great tip, thank you Noam!
Hi, Suff, yes, with have several activities, games, ideas, and tips and hints specifically for clients coming from cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Take a look at the links below and search for specific countries activities like, Polish, Italian, Scottish, Greek, and others. Best wishes.
https://www.goldencarers.com/blog/multicultural-facilities/
https://www.goldencarers.com/tips-for-communicating-with-english-second-language-clients/4587/
https://www.goldencarers.com/10-tips-for-supporting-culturally-diverse-clients/4839/
How would you cater for CALD clients?
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 say the week it was my fair lady and they were all singing along great night
How lovely Lisa! What a good idea to get someone to pick each week. Love the addition of the glass of sherry too!
Thank you Josephine and Susan for adding these movies to the list. It is really appreciated. Best wishes!
Thanks for some of these suggestions. We have held a couple of movie nights and they have been incredibly popular with our guys and family members. We incorporate a group to make rounds of sandwiches and muffins as we pause half way (for toileting etc) - and have these for supper.
We did a fundraiser for a charity and put on Calendar Girls - this went down really well ! Another one is The 100 Foot Journey. I have been told that the Australian film Oddball will be a good one - true story of a Dog protecting Penguins.
I have been asked by our residents to hold movie nights more often so that is in our plans for 2016. Hence some of the suggestions above will definitely come in quite handy !! Thanks
A film that we found very funny was this one.
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is a British comedy-drama film from 2002, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi. It is based on a 1993 novel with the same name by Vernon Coleman.
It is the story about a woman, Thelma Caldicot, who is coerced by her manipulative son Derek and daughter-in-law to move into a run-down nursing home, owned by Derek's employer, after the death of her bullying husband. Derek also gets her to sign over her house to him. However, she doesn't like it at the nursing home and shows her frustration. After having been medicated by the staff to stay calm, she finally incites her fellow inmates to revolt.