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Thank you also Lorraine

I agree Kerry

Poetry like music is good for stimulating the brain of those with dementia

Thank you for sharing this

Solange,

I would also like to add the great fun I had with residents as a group was reciting the first 3 words of a nursery rhyme & they would continue on as a team.

"Humpty Dumpty fell" & residents would continue on, I would do approximately 15 nursery

rhymes before I done a word game.

Memories are great for our elderly

Kerry Towler

I have found poetry triggers memories for some of our residents who have dementia and I am often surprised by how often some can continue to recite the whole poem without very much prompting, especially the older poems which some had learnt at school.

I feel poetry is not used enough in Aged Care: I would place on my daily program at least one poem to read before some activity.

It may not have been a significant poem for that day, but residents enjoyed it

Plus, looks good on your program

Kerry

I have commenced a creative writing group. There are 4 residents who attend however they have so much fun telling stories of yesteryear. The Residents give me the job of writing their stories and putting them in verse or short stories.

With their stories I have now put together 3 beautiful reminiscence booklets filled with their memories which they each treasure. They have homework each week which consists of a word or sentence to be discussed the following week. Recently we the word was " Broom" we had such fun bring up memories of how they used the broom in so many ways.

A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Poetry- Australia Day