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Coronavirus: 18 Activities for Dementia Care
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Hi I'm after some ideas for a consumer of mine that has advanced Dementia and comes to my Day Respite Centre.
Hi Tayla
Sensory activities may work
https://www.goldencarers.com/search/?search_tag=Activity&search=Sensory
There are many Bible activities on golden Carers
https://www.goldencarers.com/short-stories-about-forgiveness/5109/
https://www.goldencarers.com/comments/17277/
https://www.goldencarers.com/comments/11617/
I ran a Leisure and Life Style department, yesterday we did, Special effect photos with our residents at the Grand Total cost of $4. I went to KMart and brought a $4 string of small LED lights ( Like the kind that you would put in a empty wine bottle to use outdoors )
I put aluminum foil on the wall ( about 2 meters is needed, needs to cover the whole head area in the photo), behind a chair sitting on a 45 degree angle, had our residents sit on the chair in a room with about 1/4 of the normal light level. I gently wrapped the LED lights around their heads and draped around their necks and then took photos with no flash. The low light means that the light from the LED's bounce off the Al foil and gives an awesome effect on the photo. We had a blast doing this and its so cheap! We then emailed the photos to their family members and got some great feed back from them.
Perhaps Liz will reply when she has a chance but what this means to me is that the chair arm is not facing the wall and the chair back is not facing the wall but the chair is sort of halfway between both
Try this out
Thank you Liz
Liz, what a great idea ! We're gonna try this. Not sure how to " put a chair at 45 degree though. Thoughts ?
Great idea Liz
Thank you for sharing
Great ideas. Thanks everyone for them and keep them coming. Remember we are all doing a fantastic job no matter how big or small it is. Keep up the great work.
Great resource thank you.
Hi Joyce
I am sure you will find these activities useful
https://www.goldencarers.com/search/#stq=Bible%20activities&stp=1
Great Thank You !
I teach Sunday School at our nursing home here in Columbia, Louisiana. I have one class of dementia and they are wonderful. I was wondering if you have any bible activities?
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