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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi every
Happy New Year. I pray that all activities you do will be successful with your community.
I am working on a resident highlight to add to my monthly newsletter but I am unsure of the questions...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi
Our residents don't seem to mourn or talk about a passing resident in a way that they might need counseling. When a resident passes at our facility we post a picture along with their obituary and...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi Martha,
one of the ways to get information out is to involve the relatives of your residents, let them know of your plans and give them flyers to give out. See if your area have a community calend...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi Nicole,
I do the same thing. Plan activities on a monthly basis and putting together crafts and entertainment to accommodate the residents needs, and have them participating in crafts that they ar...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi,
thanks!
I am thinking that each resident can present a hat from the past and tell something about it so on the day of the "Hat Parade", they will wheel in to the activity room wearing their hat...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi all, Happy Monday. I hope that the weekend was great.
Question: How are you celebrating Easter and then later on Mother's Day?
Last year for Easter we hid eggs filled candies and had an Easter eg...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi Jan.
I am happy for you and please keep me updated as to how things are going. If you have questions on anything do not hesitate to send me a message.'
CeCe
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi,
I am more that happy to guide you. How it's made is not on this site, that's on you tube. So google you tube and when it comes up go to their search tab and type in how it's made. There are many...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
HI Jen,
I choose things that they use and see every day like: how ice cream is made, things like wheel chair, kayak, potato chips, fireworks. The residents were fascinated as how these things were ma...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi everyone. I hope that the new year is going well for you. I am enjoying all the activities that Golden Carers and its members provide and I have tried many of them but the one I do most is the whee...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi Anita,
I have done an armchair travel to Morocco, but I have done quite a few to a number of places. The last one was to Vegas and I am currently working on one to Romania. We have visited other p...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Mandala Activities for the Elderly
It's good to hear from all of you. This site is very helpful. Another thing I do for my residents is that I make copies of pictures and word find and leave them in the room so that they are available...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Sandwich Making
I did this activity with our residents and it was a lot of fun for them. they made their own sandwich with what ever topping they wanted, but the thing is, no matter what, some just want peanut butte...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Mandala Activities for the Elderly
My residents enjoy the thing I have given them to color and are always excited when it is coloring time. there are times that I sit in the room and color with a resident if they are not in the mood fo...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Five Ways to Spice Up Your Exercise Program
Hi everyone.
Most of my residents are in wheel chair so I use exercise CDs, one in particular called Light and Lively. It has good rhythm and there is a voice coaching the moves. I also go to YouTub...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Christmas Pantomime: Snow White & the 3 and a half Dwarfs!
I am thankful for this site. It is my go to for activities, ideas, and just for information. I have done many of the activities to include the arm chair travel and the residents really loved these tri...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hello everyone,
I joined this group about a month ago and I am enjoying it so much. I like the choices I have with activities and reading the comments left by other LECs. One of the activities I did...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Good morning Susan, Solange,
We always make a "end of life" book for the residents when they pass using pictures of them through out their time with us that the family gets and can always look back,...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying this awesome forum.
I am kindly seeking ideas on items to present to a family who has just lost a loved on other than flowers. The residen...
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Cecilia
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Life Enrichment Coordinator
Hi I work at a Retirement Living facility and when a resident passes we ask family members for permission and then we place the residents picture in a beautiful picture frame, place a light next to th...
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