Lori, If you're asking me about the horse videos - there are a LOT of them that pop up when you do a YouTube search "Horse in pasture." I don't use the same one every time, so I really can't come up...

Have you thought about doing shorter activities, maybe doing a 40 minute one for the higher functioning followed by a 30 minute slower/easier version for the lower functioning people. I pretty much ga...

My SNF residents want to have an Easter Egg hunt! Not the kind where they hide the eggs and kids come in and hunt, they want to be the ones doing the hunting, staff are the ones doing the hiding. Alm...

I'm in SNF, so my situation might be different, but this is exactly why I don't hire CNAs to work in activities any more. In SNF, non-CNAs aren't allowed to do any sort of personal cares like feeding,...

We have been using a lot of YouTube videos that match our resident's interests. For example, one lady "loved her horses more than her children" according to her son, so we searched for "horses in past...

Ask them "what would you be doing if you were at home right now?" Often you can build on what they tell you during that conversation. Also, "Is there something that you were always interested in, but...

Feed them and they will come! :D It depends on what your group has in common - I have a building full of retired farmers, so most of what we do with the guys is farming related. During football seas...

I got mine at Dollar Tree - only a dollar each. We don't use the ball on top of the basket, just tip the basket upside down to drum on the base. I don't have enough storage space to store 8-10 balls...

I use a whole lot of music but never ask them to Name That Tune when working with late dementia people. We just sit around, sing along if they are able (and it's surprising how many of them are still...