love your work as always....can you help have now a large proportion of residents who want to do things but can hardly see - need success at end of activity to keep self esteem high - running out of ideas!!! thanks....Judy
We recently held a teddy bears picnic and it was a huge success! We held it as our theme for the Biggest morning tea and raised $500. Every resident brought their teddy bears to the morning tea, we had teddy bear biscuits and honey cakes, and the residents made huge paper flowers and honey bees to decorate the tables and hang across the room (because of course bears eat honey which comes from the flowers). There were lucky door prizes (tiny bears of course) and raffles (bears). Weeks afterwards and the residents are still talking about the morning tea and many of the bears have become their favourites and even come to lunch with some of them now. It was a lovely morning and there were also prizes for the largest, smallest, best dressed etc bears that came along. Cheers, J, NSW
great website - just been told by a quality improvement contractor on site that a one on one can be 5 mins and counts?? i was under impression it was 30minutes and could be spread over the day? im in nsw. Any ideas? thanks
I just love love love this site - each time I'm glued to the many and awesome ideas to engage with our seniors. I recently downloaded some of the crossword puzzles and these seniors are fabulous to work with. That is just the tip of the iceberg. In this new chapter of my life, as semi-retired, I am so enjoying my time with seniors and watching them light up; I feel I've found a new niche. It's extremely gratifying. As to the cost of membership, it came out of my pocket - I rationalised that it was only about $3/month, less than many magazines. So keep up the GREAT work!!! Thanks again Golden Carers!!!!!
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