Our community is getting ready to celebrate our 20th anniversary this summer and we are struggling to come up with a gift for residents. 5 years we did a engraved picture frame, 10 years we did a glass clock with engraving, 15 years we did champagne flutes with custom community notecards. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
Hi! Does your facility allow pets? We have had employees (my Activities Coordinator) bring her dog in and do room visits with her to those residents who don't really come out for any of the programs. The residents really seemed to enjoy the pet visit. Pre COVID we had Pets on Wheels come in and do visits, but they didn't go to individual room.
Would any of the loners be interested in a pen pal program? We did one before that went really well. Or would any of them be interested in a service type project? Putting together care packages/writing notes for service workers?
So many great ideas in here. Glad to have found you, Golden Carers! Thank you for all the wonderful things you do to help all of us working with activities to better and to make our activities fun for our customers and us.
Virginia Benshoof Activities Specialist United States
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Thanks!
Sara