The game Twister® can be adapted for play by any age! Idea #1: Make or find beanbags. Seat players around the 4 edges of a Twister® mat. Use the game spinner and have players take turns tossing bean bags onto the colored circles as indicated by the spinner. Keep score as desired. Idea #2: Cut […]
Read more ...A Dutch nursing home offers rent-free housing to university students in a project designed to help ward off the negative effects of aging. In exchange for small, rent-free apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer, Netherlands, requires students to spend at least 30 hours per month acting as “good neighbors.” Students do a variety of […]
Read more ...According to a 2008 paper from Harvard Medical School, over 500,000 persons with mental illness (excluding dementia) reside in US nursing homes on a given day. This number significantly exceeds the number in all other health care institutions combined. In addition, mental illness is one, and sometimes the decisive, factor contributing to placement in a […]
Read more ...The term “coloring” can give pause to many recreation, activity and life enrichment professionals. Coloring usually brings to mind crayons and preschoolers, not our wise and revered elders! However, both the Washington and Huffington Posts carried recent stories about why we might re-think the value of coloring for some adults. Huffington Post Article Washington Post […]
Read more ...Do you and your Residents, Patients or Clients need more Good News? Here is a website, another nice addition to social and intellectual group programs. You can search for national, world, or even good news in philanthropy on this site. Each category has photographs to help guide interest and selections. http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/news/
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