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 Early Alzheimers wing(assisted Living) - 5736 - 08/15/2011 04:30 PM
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 Engaging - JGAL- 08/16/2011 09:10 AM
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Sleeping - sunrisecamrose- 08/16/2011 11:04 AM
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ideas - Ashleympb- 08/16/2011 12:14 PM
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5736 Registered: 09/06/07 |
Posted 08/15/2011 04:30 PM
Just a few questions...I was just wondering if there are many of your residents who sleep in the common areas. What is the average number of residents in a particular program. How do you engage a group of 8 residents with dementia in a common activity? thanks in advance for your expertise |
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JGAL
Registered: 09/17/10 |
Posted 08/16/2011 09:10 AM
Hello, Usually " Feed them They Will Come", if you offer snacks, such as coffee and donuts, cookies and juice, ice cream social, milkshakes, special teas and coffees, etc. They will attend, then you can do different things, like listen to old time music, my residents love Lawrence Welk Videos, do trivia with them, you can get good trivia here on activity connection. An exercise program with a leader, bingo always works. But, no matter what you do, you will always have the folks that sit in the sitting areas and sleep. I have worked in two assisted living facilities and been associated with several more and all have this situation. Activities cannot prevent this always, there will be "down" times, like right before or after lunch or right before dinner when there are usually no activities. Also, we cannot force residents to participate in activities, they have a right to sit and sleep in the family areas if they choose. This drives administrators and marketing people crazy, I know, but this is just what 80-95 year olds do sometimes! |
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sunrisecamrose
Registered: 03/07/11 |
Posted 08/16/2011 11:04 AM
I too have residents that will sleep in the common area. Heck sometimes they fall asleep in the middle of my activities. But I don't let it bother me. As long as it is not bothering the sleeping resident then what is the harm?I do know that they will wake up for sing alongs. That is one of our most popular activties with our dementia residents. |
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Ashleympb
Registered: 09/03/10 |
Posted 08/16/2011 12:14 PM
What I have started doing to engage the "sleepers" is hold activities in the common areas. I have an afternoon snack and trivia time that is a hit. We all gather in our lobby (where many of the residents sit and doze off) to do our trivia and have ice tea, coffee, snacks, etc. Even those residents that do not attend activties in our activity room, get involved becuase we are bringing the activity to them. I also have hangman before dinner. We have several residents that gather up to an hour befor dinner and tend to just sit around. I just drag out a white board and set up in the middle of the group. We play for about 45 minutes before dinner. As for the large groups of dememtia residents, activities where they assemble things as a group work well. Putting together individual crafts may be difficult to do in a group but if you give each person one of the tasks and set up an "assembly line" makes it easier. It is also a great way to have the residents socialize. they tend to comment on the work of the other residents and have even started working together without being instructed to do so. |
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