How to Plan a Movie Screening for Seniors

Add BEING THERE to this list of movies...very charming indeed

Hi Brenda

This is great

You are very lucky to have a movie theater

Thank you for sharing

We are fortunate to have a theater at our facility and schedule a Wednesday movie night and resident attendance has been very good. A few gentlemen residents enjoy western movies, so a few weeks ago we showed "Way out West" a Laurel & Hardy movie, had a popcorn/beverage intermission, and then watched "Stan & Ollie"a 2018 movie. The residents enjoyed, and every week look forward to 6:00 movie night.

Can someone tell me what they watched the film on was it a large TV, I would love to get a big white screen to show it on but not sure how this would work, Thank you

Hi, you can add Mamma Mia (2008). My residents loved this movie. It's a comedy musical lovestory. They were all looked happy after they've watched it.

Is Pixar movies ok for skilled residents? Like finding memo, monsters inc, etc.

I just recently showed my folks in Memory Care, "Wild Hogs" I had for gotten how much language there was and the nude scene, but they thought it was hilarious!

regarding clients from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds,

in the old age home where I work there are clients not speaking the same languages at all.

we started a movie night once a month, and we're showing movies such as Mister Bean, Charley Chaplin, where language isn't an issue :)

if you have more ideas I'd love to here :)

Noam, from Israel.

Hi, Suff, yes, with have several activities, games, ideas, and tips and hints specifically for clients coming from cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Take a look at the links below and search for specific countries activities like, Polish, Italian, Scottish, Greek, and others. Best wishes.

https://www.goldencarers.com/blog/multicultural-facilities/

https://www.goldencarers.com/tips-for-communicating-with-english-second-language-clients/4587/

https://www.goldencarers.com/10-tips-for-supporting-culturally-diverse-clients/4839/

How would you cater for CALD clients?

we started movie night popcorn and a glass of tiddly (sherry) if they fancy has been great each week someone picks a film and as a home we support there choice and all gather together to watch must say the week it was my fair lady and they were all singing along great night

Thank you Josephine and Susan for adding these movies to the list. It is really appreciated. Best wishes!

Thanks for some of these suggestions. We have held a couple of movie nights and they have been incredibly popular with our guys and family members. We incorporate a group to make rounds of sandwiches and muffins as we pause half way (for toileting etc) - and have these for supper.

We did a fundraiser for a charity and put on Calendar Girls - this went down really well ! Another one is The 100 Foot Journey. I have been told that the Australian film Oddball will be a good one - true story of a Dog protecting Penguins.

I have been asked by our residents to hold movie nights more often so that is in our plans for 2016. Hence some of the suggestions above will definitely come in quite handy !! Thanks

A film that we found very funny was this one.

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is a British comedy-drama film from 2002, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi. It is based on a 1993 novel with the same name by Vernon Coleman.

It is the story about a woman, Thelma Caldicot, who is coerced by her manipulative son Derek and daughter-in-law to move into a run-down nursing home, owned by Derek's employer, after the death of her bullying husband. Derek also gets her to sign over her house to him. However, she doesn't like it at the nursing home and shows her frustration. After having been medicated by the staff to stay calm, she finally incites her fellow inmates to revolt.