Armchair Travel: A Sensory Experience for Seniors

How often do you do the armchair travel at your facility? Love this idea!

Hi Linda

Thank you for sharing this information

If anyone wants to travel to places you’ve been I will send them your way

Hi Linda

Thank you for sharing this information

If anyone wants to travel to places you’ve been I will send them your way

I was a rec coordinator for 15 yrs. and we travelled to 8 countries. I wore the costume of the country, food and music matched. They had airplane “ tickets” handed out at breakfast - flight was at 2pm . Alaska, France, England, China, Mexico , Hawaii, Africa , Ukraine . We later travelled Canada province by province. Staff came too!

Hi Everyone

Can anyone help ,l need thing on Pakistan for our travel day.one of our resident got her nose out of joint .we have been to India on our travel day.

Regards

Marion

Great idea but where can I find a template to make a passport!

For one of our multicultural theme days we had a belly dancer come in and do a dancing show then a talk on Egypt. We also had some Middle eastern sweets and afternoon tea. They loved it

I have also borrowed at times dvds from the local library as well as books for resources. If you go to the travel agents they sometimes have brochures that they are giving away, these can be used for collages etc on the country you are 'visiting'.

We are lucky enough to have Apple TV through out our facility so we have armchair travel with our volunteers becoming involved and assisting to make it a great experience for our residents. We have traveled through Peru, Malta, Italy, Mexico and Holland this year. These days always spark lots of conversation between the residents about the travels they have taken in their lives. We have had residents point out the places they lived, one resident saw the street she lived in as a child. There are lots of great travel documentaries on YouTube.

Thank you Albert for the callofroad.com site. This one will be used in our facility.

Nice work on the English history from you tube and ideas of sandwiches and Royal Trivia for Queen Victoria Birthday at the end of May.

Great ideas! Love this Activity site.

Darla

thank you for this.

Nowadays armchair travel web-sources are better than books.

Try for example www.callofroad.com

A lot of travel videos from all over the world.

We have enhanced dining once a month ..decorate, music, and menu??? Any ideas for September????

Donna, we have also been able to use aspects of the Armchair Travel on a much smaller scale. For example, when a resident comes into a lodge from another culture, it can be a useful way of introducing them into their new environment, by sharing something of their cultural heritage through Armchair Travel sessions. This also serves to transition the resident into their new home.

Sounds amazing. Will definately look into this.

Thanks Wendy will look forward to obtaining these DVD.

sorry it took so long to get back to you Patricia as i had to borrow them again its discovery ATLAS DVD collection volumes 1-10 discovery channel Australia, Italy, China, France, Brazil, India, Egypt, Japan, South Africa,& Russia narrated by famous people ...wendy

I started up Armchair Travel at a facility, we also had passports for participants & they loved them

Hi Wendy do you know what the name of the DVDs were that you borrowed?

my daughter is a primary teacher and we borrowed there set of travel DvD'S for our nursing home; they were easy and more informative for the residents to follow then ones we got from the library

Thank you so much Susan. It sounded like an amazing month of getting ready.

Having that many Lifestyle staff must have a huge impact on the activities you can offer.

Hello Patricia; the lead up to the actual travel week was about 4 weeks; most of the activities were developed during work hours, and indeed many of the residents helped during craft sessions to decorate their lodges, make leis etc. Things like word-search etc were available on google image under word hawaii. New music sessions are developed regularly anyway, and the Volcano was the first experiment in our Science for Seniors program. It does help having the equivalent of 10 full-time Leisure & Lifestyle Coordinators in addition to myself; so the ideas really flow.

I am very interested in this activity. I would like to know how much time Susan and the other lifestyle team spent in the preparation of this activity. Was it all done in work hours?

Sounds wonderful. I am looking forward to discussing it at work tomorrow .

instead we can use a trip to & not armchair

I saw this add in a magazine and tried to use for the facility I'm working for and the DDON who lifestyle reports to didn't agreed.

I liked and I'm all for who can used.

Maria

We have completed Armchair Travel to Hawaii, and what a wonderful trip we had. We are a large aged care facility so were able to divide activities between Leisure & Lifestyle Coordinators, each responsible for a different aspect: music expression; cooking; Hawaiin pamper session (coconut & pineapple taste); even a working volcano, built, tested and demonstrated before doing the rounds (mentos and coke version) and hula hands to My Little Grass Shack. Craft activities centred around making hula skirts and leis. I still have the music of My Little Grass Shack running through my head every day. What a trip it was. Susan Rolfe, Lifestyle Manager

Has anyone any ideas for activities to do with india