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Tracie avatar

Our care home has gone into Lock down, no visitors and no outtings and this week due to certain concerns the residents are being isolated in their rooms. We have 38 residents, the majority have dementia. I have been going from room to room distributing Magazines, crosswords, wordsearches and colouring to those that can do these activities but im struggling to think of what else to do with them, a few are happy to chat but others not. I'm currently the only Activities coordinator and i'm pregnant have been advised to keep a safe distance from residents which obviously restricts what i can do with them. Any ideas will be very welcome thanks in advance

Susan avatar

Hi Tracie

Can you use the public address system??

If so you can do activities on the public address system such as joke time or trivia time

You could even do a sing-along

You could also distribute decks of cards because you can buy them pretty inexpensively

You can have family and volunteers call the residents

You could call the residents

You could have them untie and tie knots

You could use the Carers to do activities with the residents as they’re getting them ready

Check out some of the recent post by the members

Good luck

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Golden Carers has been a God send to me. The person before me left me winging it. So, I found Golden Carers in an internet search. I use the calendar, lots of the activity ideas, but the most appreciated is the different ideas from other members. Sometimes knowing what works in other facilities is so helpful.... I'm coming to the end of my first year, and can't wait to renew for another year.