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hoffmanr07, on Jun 15 2010, 07:29 AM, said:

My directors and I are currently going through the same issue. We are trying to diversify our programs with more manly themed activities. We are planning on taking one small area of our building and creating a "sports den." The plan is to put in at least one shelving unit and place certain items on it for our guys like a nerf football and other such items. There is also an item that we plan on purchasing that is a pipe puzzle. It's pieces of pvc piping attached to a board base with other pieces of pipe that they can attach. I also had an idea for sorting that I plan on implementing. I intend to purchase certain hardware like screws, bolts, different sized washers, and such for our men to sort, much like the beads we have for our women for sorting.

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Our male residents love watching the old westerns and war movies. So we have our men's club once a month and they watch the movie they have voted on. They also get to pick what type of refreshments, which is usally nachos and virgin beer. They love it. At the end of the movie the vote again on which movie and what refreshments they want for the next month. We have also been in touch with a car vintage car club, and we are trying to get this planned for the men. The car club is willing to bring their cars out to the facility for show. Still working out the details.

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LeslieK, on 07 June 2010 - 07:47 PM, said:

QUOTE (rich @ Mar 10 2004, 04:41 PM) I am an A.D in a new assisted living,i need ideas for mens programming can anybody help?


My facility has only 10 men with varied levels of cognition and physical ability. However, we have noticed they all enjoy a cold beverage along with pizza. I am planning on showing a "classic football game" on the big screen TV with pizza and beer once a month for a mens group.

Leslie Kolovich
Activities Director

The men at my facility are few and very diverse as well, but they do enjoy anything related to food. Something new I've started however isinviting the men's group participants from other nearby facilities to join us for our men's group. I find that more of the men at my facility will participate if the group is larger. They tend to be turned off by the lack of interest of their peers so by involving men from other facilities at least that increases the number of participants leading to more interest from men who normally wouldn't partcipate. Hope this helps everyone.

Thanks,

Joe

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We began to give the men coffee and doughnuts at a certain time each week. The are also beginning their Men's workshop. The plan is to offer projects for them to work on. They are currently using a primer to paint ceiling tiles which will be finished by fine artists for over the bed scenes. We are going to do some basic staining and sanding projects. We had a local naturalist come in who provided the "target fishing" with real poles with weights attached for casting. That was fun. We gave away money for the best casts and that helped. The football parties are a hit and we hope to try the mentioned poker, beer , and pretzel night that sounds like it will work for some guys.

rich, on 10 March 2004 - 03:41 PM, said:

I am an A.D in a new assisted living,i need ideas for mens programming can anybody help?