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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer From New South Wales, Australia Australia flag

patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

Armchair Travel: A Sensory Experience for Seniors

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

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

Armchair Travel: A Sensory Experience for Seniors

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.

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

Armchair Travel: A Sensory Experience for Seniors

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?

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

Vase Jars

This is a lovely, we are always short of vases.

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

1) I work with residents in low care (until 1st July). I have been doing a cognitive activity of "Rebus" puzzles. Some of my residents are starting to get the hang of doing these and enjoy them. I...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

I regularly print out the activities from Gilden Carers, I find when I follow the instructions I end up with really strange print out. Lots of changes are made. Can you tell me why this happens? I...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

Card Bingo

We do similar card bingo, but use all the suits in a pack of cards. Residents turn the cards over if they have the card and suit that is called out. Winner receives a pack of small chips or a small...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

10 years ago

Hi Deirdre, my current pay rate is $18.84 an hr. We had EBA (work placement agreement) to go into place sometime this year. If we are lucky enough we might be paid over the magical $19 something an hr...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Felt Christmas Poinsettia

My low care residents enjoyed making these. They look absolutely wonderful on the residents tables. I used a hot glue gun to attach gold stamens in the middle. One of my residents suggested we shoul...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Hi Jodie The new Chinese new year is the year of the horse. You can look up your residents year of birth and find out what the year of the horse means to them I f you are going to use lanterns make...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Sample Activities Calendars

Thank you Loreta, I really like your program. This has given me some ideas on how to improve on my own.

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Being told by management that "I should have known when I took on the job that you would have to do work in your own time". What does everyone else think of this? Unfortunately this attitude a...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Carpet Bowls Game for Seniors

Can anyone please tell me the approximate cost of indoor bowls or bocce balls?

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

I would like comments /suggestions on the following. I would like to do a quilting activity with my low care residents (Some are not really low care). I want the end result to be the residents own w...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

I work in a facility with 32 beds classified as low care .Some of these residents are in early stages of dementia. There is a hugh range of mental and physical abilities. Does anyone have any suggesti...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

I did the Cert IV last year through TAFE, it was an on line course and we logged in weekly. Not sure what you mean by DE. I found some units more difficult than others, also the wording of some of th...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Mother Earth Word Search

My residents enjoy doing word searches. Can you recommend any free websites to go to.

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

I am doing football tipping, I but didn't really want it to encraoch onto other activities. I have given residents jobs of handing out the weekly draw and collecting it. After the week is finished I...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

I work in a facility with 32 Low care residents, 13 dementiaspecific and 75 high care residents. I am trying to redo the programming to for low care to be being more time friendly to do associated pap...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

I do trivia with my low care residents. the residents keep asking for more.can be time consuming finding the trivia. There are some good websites where trivia can be sourced from.

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

what is the postcard exchange all about?

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

11 years ago

Mullet throwing Competition

I made 10 mullets, the activity was used on the 25th January for Australia day activities. We used a hoop with tissue paper for a pond. Our residents in the Dementia unit had a wonderful time thro...

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patricia

Recreational Activity Officer

12 years ago

Word Lists for Group Games:

I use this activity to finish my exercise session with our Low Care residents. It gives mental stimulation. Whatever the topic, there is no such thing as a wrong answer. Favourite flowers and colour...

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