Activities for March, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and Spring For Nursing Home Seniors! The month of March offers some great theme ideas and activities for Activity Directors and Caregivers of Nursing Homes and assisted living facilities. Some themes are Gardening, Spring, St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, Palm Sunday and Passover. March can be a month of […]
Big List of Activities for Senior Men
There are many activities that can grab and hold the senior men’s attention and interest. From this comprehensive list you can find several that will be a hit! Men’s activities can seem difficult to come up with to keep them occupied, stimulated and interested. Men don’t usually care to do some activities that women love […]
Music for Seniors in Assisted Living
Everyone can benefit from music activities in some capacity. Some can be effective music therapy. It has been found to be especially helpful to the elderly and seniors in geriatric care, palliative care and with Alzheimer’s and other dementia. Although music therapy is a specialized area for trained therapists, it doesn’t take special training or […]
A Few New Year’s Activities
New Years Party Ideas, Games and Crafts For Seniors in Nursing Homes! New Year’s Resolution Game Have everyone write down 2 or 3 New Year’s Resolutions, hopes, or wishes and an activity coordinator or volunteer can draw them out one at a time, read it aloud, and the crowd has to guess whose it is. […]
These Nursing Home Week Activities Have Been Tried and Tested
Here are some wonderful Nursing Home Activities sent in by site visitors. Check them out, try them, let us know how they worked for you and please send us MORE activity ideas too! ******************************* Baby Shower Games to help local Teen Pregnancy Center “This year based on the National Nursing Home week Theme about Nurturing, […]