Hi everyone, I work in a Care Home in Glasgow, Scotland and we have just recently opened a 16 bed dementia unit. I am the activities director and I am struggling to come up with good quality activities for this particular client group. Can anyone help, it would be much appreciated.
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Struggling with activities for residents with Dementia
Started by marieg, Mar 17 2011 03:48 PM
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Posted 22 March 2011 - 12:57 PM
marieg, on 17 March 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:
Hi everyone, I work in a Care Home in Glasgow, Scotland and we have just recently opened a 16 bed dementia unit. I am the activities director and I am struggling to come up with good quality activities for this particular client group. Can anyone help, it would be much appreciated.
Marie
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Posted 22 March 2011 - 01:05 PM
Hi Marie!
I am the AD at a 120-bed home that is all Residents with dementia of some kind. We use the "Best Friend" approach and it has been very successful here.
The name of the book if you can get it is "The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities" There is a volume one and volume 2.
Good luck!
Stacy
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Atlanta, Georgia
I am the AD at a 120-bed home that is all Residents with dementia of some kind. We use the "Best Friend" approach and it has been very successful here.
The name of the book if you can get it is "The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities" There is a volume one and volume 2.
Good luck!
Stacy
The Fountainview Center
Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted 25 March 2011 - 06:01 PM
Thanks Stacey. I will go on line and try to order that book.
stacyb, on 22 March 2011 - 01:05 PM, said:
Hi Marie!
I am the AD at a 120-bed home that is all Residents with dementia of some kind. We use the "Best Friend" approach and it has been very successful here.
The name of the book if you can get it is "The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities" There is a volume one and volume 2.
Good luck!
Stacy
The Fountainview Center
Atlanta, Georgia
I am the AD at a 120-bed home that is all Residents with dementia of some kind. We use the "Best Friend" approach and it has been very successful here.
The name of the book if you can get it is "The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities" There is a volume one and volume 2.
Good luck!
Stacy
The Fountainview Center
Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted 27 March 2011 - 12:31 PM
Hi Stacy, I'm the activities Director for an assisted living and skilled nursing community with 120 beds (when we are full 
). We have may residents who have Dementia. Some things we do is playing old music from their erra and ask them to "name that tune". They really enjoy that. You can also take some old pictures or adds and blow them up and ask them if they remember when, or if they ever had what the add is offering etc.
We also do trivia (it's called Eldertrivia and they have 9 different books). We also do hangmans and family feud! They enjoy that. We do a game called guggenheim. http://www.knowledge..._guggenheim.htm is a website on how to play. I use activityconnection.com too for ideas.
Hope this helps.
Christine
). We have may residents who have Dementia. Some things we do is playing old music from their erra and ask them to "name that tune". They really enjoy that. You can also take some old pictures or adds and blow them up and ask them if they remember when, or if they ever had what the add is offering etc. We also do trivia (it's called Eldertrivia and they have 9 different books). We also do hangmans and family feud! They enjoy that. We do a game called guggenheim. http://www.knowledge..._guggenheim.htm is a website on how to play. I use activityconnection.com too for ideas.
Hope this helps.
Christine
marieg, on 25 March 2011 - 06:01 PM, said:
Thanks Stacey. I will go on line and try to order that book.
