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Taryn
Activities coordinator
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Queensland,
Australia
Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi Melinda,
I work in a community based organisation. I hold 'Health Forums' every now and then and have a few guest speakers come in on the day. Our speakers are all health related - eg Diabetes, c...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi Tyler,
Have you tried focussing on the 'prize' aspect of activities? Like bingo/ trivia and winner gets a prize. who doesn't love winning things!?! I ve found armchair travel to be popular too....
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi Kaitlyn,
I have found men can be very hard to engage in group activities. I work in community aged care and have found that outings are the only way to get them involved. I have a 'mens group r...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi Megan,
Im in the same kind of situation. I work in community aged care so dont have a 'captured audience' so to speak. I have an activity program that has to appeal to people enough that hey wan...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Just wondering if anyone is around the Brisbane, Qld area? Im looking for some suggestions of places to take clients for picnics/BBQ's etc.
Thanks!
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
I have a copy at my activity centre. Ill post them for you when i get them :-)
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi, Im looking for dementia specific activities that people have found to be successful for both male and females in a day respite centre situation.
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Family Feud Game
What a great idea! I cant wait to try it with my participants :)
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi,
I work in community aged care, so our clients are all quite able bodied and we have the ratios of 1:7 staff : clients for centre based activities and 1:5 for outings. I find this to work well.
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Number Plate Quiz 2
We played this with our clients. We wrote it up on the white board. . If we couldnt get it we made it up! I was amazed at how many we did get! It was so much fun :-)
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
8 Ways to celebrate Australia Day
We have an Australia Day function every year. We invite all our staff, dress up, decorate the room, put on temporary tattoos, we have 'Aussie' food, thong throwing comps, trivia, jokes and a lot of f...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Australia Day Damper Recipe
What a great idea! Im going to give it a try at our Australia day BBQ this year. Thanks for sharing!
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Volunteer's Handbook
I am wanting to start up a volunteer program at our community based aged care organisation. I am looking for people opinions on how to go about advertising this? Do you ask you volunteers to commit t...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
I like the idea of this! I have started doing Name that tune - kind of trivia games as power point presentations. You take clips from youtube and edit it etc. My participants have loved it!
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi everyone! I work for a community based aged care organisation in North Brisbane. Does anyone else work around this area? I was wondering if anyone had the names of entertainers in this area?
Than...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
What kind of activities would you suggest for a Men's group?
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi I work in community aged care and was wondering how everyone gets around copy right laws with playing dvds and documentaries etc?
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Famous Pairs
I love these kind of activities. I run a community based activities program and our participants meet weekly at our centre.Ive started a 'Brain Gym" program that we have once a month and have differen...
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Tips for Writing Successful Activity Programs for Senior Care
I'm so glad I found this site! It's great to be able to share all our ideas around with others that work in the same industry and how wonderful, that our clients benefit from it!
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Taryn
Activities coordinator
Activities coordinator
Hi guys! I'm a newly appointed activity coordinator for a community based aged care and disability organisation. I'm looking for activities that people in the community will WANT to access. As they ha...
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