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!
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.
Julie watson
14th May 2021
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 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!
Noam Herling
10th Nov 2017
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!
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.
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
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
Susan
8th Dec 2015
Freelance Activity Co-ordinator
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.
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