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Josephine
Lifestyle Manager
Linda Henry
Activities Coordinator
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What a blessing to have found the Golden Carers website, our residents love the activities, particularly fond of visual and musical quizzes. Oh, what fun!! Thanks to all to those at Golden Carers and everyone who contributes to making this website an invaluable tool in ones' toolkit.
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Hi Everyone,
I am looking for suitable free games to download on a computer for a young gent who has come to live at our facility (only early 60s) who has had a massive stroke, paralysed left side, speech affected. He is a quiet gent and respectful of our elderly living with dementia, but a bit of a loner. Speaking to his family this is a personality of his. I am hoping to introduce him to the computer as he has not had much to do with computers. We have a touch screen computer in a quiet area and hoping I can introduce him to games to keep his mind active. However I am not a computer game person and need some suggestions. Something I can, in the future, get school students to liaise with him. Any suggestions would be great.
All the card games, eg solitaire this is like patience, poker, Have you looked at mahjong this is a good games as well, lots of thinking involved. Painting and coloring apps. You can also get apps that can help with his speech he types a word and the computer speaks the word. Books, he may like to read or even a journal for his thoughts. All free. a tablet or iPad would be ideal as well Good luck.
Karen
Try Luminosity. Heaps of mind games, good for the brain
Hi Karen, thanks for the tip, I was probably overthinking the types of computer games. I have been speaking to his family, especially his financial power of attorney and they refuse to purchase one "just in case he does not use it eventually" (mmmm) hence the other alternative is to use our own common computer, unless there is a government initiative for iPad's?