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5 Mother's Day Activities for Dementia Care
opportunity for residents with dementia to engage in sensory and cognitive stimulation. Sensory stimulation plays a large role in assisting with quality of life for long-term care residents. As the name suggests, sensory stimulation involves activities which simulate any of the five senses: sight, sound
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Picture Matching Bingo
. I have also made a coloured fruit salad bingo for the residents that can't recognise numbers. They love it and most of them recognise common fruits no matter how advanced their dementia is. Thank you Heather for this activity! Recreation Activities Officer Encourages Mental and verbal stimulation
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Crossword Puzzles for Group Setttings
Crossword Puzzles for Group Setttings This is one of many free activities. Golden Carers has 1000s of activities and resources for senior care. Solving crossword puzzles in group settings is so much fun! Object: Mental stimulation Concentration Maintain social skills. Preparation: Print themed
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DIY Noughts and Crosses
maintenance boys glued pegs on & painted. This is such a great game its quick, fun, using fine motor skills, mental stimulation, can be used one on one or as I have made 3 we can have 6 residents socially interacting with each other. This activity cost me about $2.50 each game as I was given the cake
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Photo Bookmarks of Children
Could print some out and hand them out Do you want to keep social distance You maybe able to do Games over the telephone I like this horse racing game And other games suggested here https://www.goldencarers.com/comments/28064/ diversional therapist Thankyou for your inspirational ideas during Covid lockdown , I am able to use these to keep people mentally stimulated . blessings Talita Thank you so much for your feedback Dorothy x
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Vive la France Party!
in the morning and had the party in the afternoon the residents ate it with coffee and enjoyed the artist drawing them with a quiz and and good fun thanks for the ideas it was great . Lifestyle Assistants would like more variety of activiites and quizes for mental stimulation as we have some people attend mutiple days
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9 Principles of the Montessori Approach for Dementia Care
. Praise the participant at the end of an activity and invite them along for more sessions. 12 Examples of Suitable Montessori-style Activities Think of activities that alert the mind by stimulating the five senses: sight, taste, hearing, smell and touch. For example: Tasting foreign fruit Listening
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Fun Riddle 10
Fun Riddle 10 recreational therapist Excellent, really enjoyable!!! diversional therapist this is great for mental stimuli and fun to thanks Activities Officer I love these riddles!!! so do my clients!
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Musical Instrument Trivia
Musical Instrument Trivia ACTIVITIES CO-ORDINATOR Brilliant, just love searching through Golden Carers pages. Wonderful useful ideas that add to keeping older people mentally active. Thank you! Enid Talita Thank you so much Enid! Your kind words mean so much to us!
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Scent for Pleasure
Scent for Pleasure Diversional Therapist Good thinking Sharon. Sight and hearing stimulation would be more suitable for people with poor sense of smell. Recreation Therapist I'm all for sensory activities, but let's remember that sometimes we set residents up to "fail" as 80 percent of those
https://www.goldencarers.com/scent-for-pleasure/3411/
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