Men are a challenge... Dominoes was always a hit with our men residents, Tournaments, playoffs, award ceremonies, write up in the news etc... our men residents loved their dominoes with the same passion as Bingo for the ladies... it may be the competition, some of our tourny's were fierce competition... this might be the avenue to bring the men out of their rooms, another spark I found was they like to talk about the passed, we had volunteer high shool students start a journal, a collection of stories from the passed... the war, the depression, We had it informally published when it was finished and we made several copies available for the lobby, I think it was a hit with the students just as much as the residents... then came volume II.. ;-)
I noticed that you posted this in the 1 on 1 Activity forum are you looking for individual activities?