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I sing and play guitar to a song intro. Love it.

I play a song on the guitar and sing the first few lines. They love it

Thank you so much . Residents love to travel in different countries. Its worth it.

I am so excited to send this activitiy home in our Activity Packets! What a terrific way of keeping our people together. I'll send a picture as soon as we get this together.
Thanks SO MUCH!

Good idea and they are flat, can be printed on card stock and easy to mail.

My memory care residents love this! Thanks for the Great ideas you provide.

I love the Golden Carers website. I find many different activities to do with my residents. The residents really enjoy the activities.
Thank you

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: What sort of cake ?

I have done something similar to the above quiz, but I included some coloured photos of the landmarks and gave the clues and then the answers, clients love the visual part of the quizzes.

I love your WHAT WOULD YOU DO QUESTIONS Lisa, some of them are really happening in the world every day and sometimes it is difficult to know what to do, good questions. I am wondering what kind of answers you are having! Some of the answers we get from our clients are good, and some very funny,but we never know what to expect. !!!!!!!! All the best Gwyneth

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: What's in a name.--Girls

Hi Mary-anne, Cindy,

The "Weekends" option has been added back, it also now works with the PDF version. :)

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: What's in a name.

Looks like fun, and easy, however, what is the object of the game? is it like tic tac toe??

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: What Would You Do? (These are original scenarios I made up)

This is fab-thank you, somewhere else we can visit

Hi there, I am trying to print calendar for September but the 5 day week Mon to Frid option does not seem to be there any more, has this changed.
thankyou

I am trying to print a 5 day calendar and hide weekends, that option does not seem to be available anymore.

These are ones I wrote myself, not sure where you could download any. Try writing some, it's very easy. Cheers.

When will the short version of the September newsletter template be available?

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: POT LUCK

Thank you. I will be using ...Songs for Seniors Quiz for my Fun page section of volunteer Letters I write to residents at a nursing home that I cannot visit in person .

Hi Joanne is there a place we can download more of these books to print?
we have tried chicken soup but not as good as these ones :)

A new activity has been submitted: Add The Surnames Quiz

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: PROVERBS AND SAYINGS

You're welcome

Thank you so much for all the great ideas.
Stay Safe xx

Safe activities during the epidemic. With social distancing it is difficult

Thank you so much, that's fantastic.

Hello. I've recently joined, I am very interested in reading about the activities people are doing when working with residents with dementia as an activity coordinator. I very happy to get tips. Thankyou. X

Hi,
We too in lock down. We are currently on a nine week arm chair cruise, the company have asked all homes to do it.
It was quite daunting at first but a weekly theme has given me some nice projects to work on.
There are some great ideas on Golden Carers for countries.
I also incorporate foot spas, pedicures, manicures, quizzes.

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: NAME THAT TUNE (it can also be a good old fashion sing-a-long - some clients may know the words of some of the songs and sing them without music , we can't stop some of our clients having a go, try it, and have fun now the words of some of the the songs and sing it without music.without music

I have played Charades many times with my residents and they all have so much fun, staff all get involved as well.

Is it going to become a regular feature? I would love to use it at 10AM teatime each day but do appreciate that it is a lot of work.

Thank You for this, we can afford to do a trip every month.

This site is amazing, the quizzes are wonderful
All of the activities tie in with a new program that will be starting at our facility called move and groove.

Wow this is amazing thank you!

Love this activity. My Participants did too. Thank you

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: QUIZ LL BOUT BIRDS

My clients have a great laugh at the jokes. Keep them coming.

Our residents are also in lockdown and in their rooms. I have given craft and scrap booking activities out to around 10 residents and I’m purchasing more scissors etc to make packs for others. With only 2 lifestyle staff to 120 residents it’s overwhelming. A lot are just feeling lonely and are happy for the company, but with so many and just two of us it’s hard, especially as all the care plans and paper work is still required. Now they have requested we assist with feeds. So typical of age care not to employ more people instead just stretch the already stressed staff into covering other areas. So overwhelmed and undervalued

Two years ago I made a fiddle muff for my husband who thought it was"a load of rubbish" now two years later he loves it, I think we just have to be aware of the progression of the illness. I LOVE THIS SITE. We do a quick activity every day and a big activity, about an hour, once or twice a week. There are so many ideas no-one needs to be stuck even with little or no money Thank-you so very much. Not all work but no reason to give up.

I will try these games with my residents seems like lots of fun

Thanks for the new activity. Going to use it today!

I have said it before but I have to say it again: I LOVE THIS!
We just released our first ever newsletter and this template made it so much easier and saved us so much time, thank you.
I would love to see the newsletters that were created with this template to share ideas with each other. Our newsletter is attached

I am a relatively new activity co ordinator in a age care facility. I have found golden careers a great source of information and wonderful ideas. Thank you

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: This is a a lovely little song -it will really send you down Memory Lane to when some of us were young Mams and Dads - it is called 20 Tiny Fingers, 20 Tiny Toes, sung by the Stargazers, u tube

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT /Song or Poem with apologies to Elvis Presley

Once again thank you so much to allowing us to share all the wonderful ideas that are on golden carers, it is so helpful and inspiring and they give our residents so much fun and the feeling of achievement once we have completed them and it is great that we can spread the days out and do a lot over time rather than in one session.
THANK YOU ALL

The residents really loved this, Is there any more coming?