Ambient DVDs

Share-time pictures have now produced another ambient DVD called a Flower Medley-a relaxing and reminiscent movie presented in beautiful vignettes of colour. Go to the timeshare website for more information on share time picture productions www.sharetimepictures.com.au

I stock their 5 DVDs -check my website for music resour

Share-time pictures have now produced another ambient DVD called a Flower Medley-a relaxing and reminiscent movie presented in beautiful vignettes of colour. Go to the timeshare website for more information on share time picture productions www.sharetimepictures.com.au

I stock their 5 DVDs -check my website for music resources.

Share-timepictures
have now produced another ambient DVD called a Flower Medley-a relaxing and
reminiscent movie presented in beautiful vignettes of colour. Go to the
timeshare website for more information on share time picture productions
www.sharetimepictures.com.au I stock their 5 DVD’s check music resources.

 

 

 

 

Consider the past cultural interests of your cients

Culture Vulture?

Sometimes it is easy to forget that many of our clients have been very well educated and had important cultural interests. Recently I did a program on visiting an art gallery and brought in art magazines on famous artists. This was very well received by 3 clients in particular who had visited galleries all over the world. I chose magazines rather than books which are usually too heavy to handle.

Ask your state gallery to send you out-dated copies of their monthly magazine for your facility and plan a program around them.

Ambient DVDs

Share-time pictures have now produced another ambient DVD called a Flower Medley-a relaxing and
reminiscent movie presented in beautiful vignettes of colour. Go to the
timeshare website for more information on share time picture productions
www.sharetimepictures.com.au. I stock  their 5 DVDs -check my website for music resources.

The value of singalong DVD’s

Singalong DVD’s have the words and picutres on the screen. Singalong DVDs are  valuable resourcse for activity staff working in particular with cients who have dementia.I have observed a resident who had lost their ability to speak was singing when the DVD was  playing and really enjoying the experience. Having an entertainer or music therhapist visityour facility is very worthwhile. However a singalong DVD can fill the gaps on weekends or evenings. Recreation staff should make these available to nursing staff so they can use these resources when there is no recreation happening in the section. Go to Music resources for my latest new DVDs from Alex Hearst and Regina Sings

Try a new mental stimulation resource

This cognitve activity program is mental stimualtion on dvd and is great for recreation staff working in aged care and a great new concept.

for more information go to www.caprogram.com.au

Pairs

Think about the hobbies of older people-bowls, golf, travel, fishing, going to the movies, watching sport and so forth. Look at the social histories of your clients. Choose the hobbies that were of interest. Give your game a name eg Golf pairs, Movie-star pairs etc.

Use Google images or if using Microsoft Office go to the Internet clip art images and find about 20 images for 1 hobby. Copy and print each image twice onto an A4 page and laminate. Turn these into cards for a game of pairs. The cards are laid on a table and each person has to turn over 2 cards and find a pair. The person with most pairs is the winner.

Picture Bingo

Bingo is a favourite in many facilities. Have you tried Picture Bingo? Use pictures that relate to the hobbies and interests of your clients. Use the same concept as the pairs game and play Golf Bingo (or movies, fishing etc.). Make 10 playing cards, each with a different set of 6 pictures based on the hobby. Add a word to each picture eg golf ball.

Make a set of 20 calling cards of the chosen pictures for that hobby. To play, pick out a calling card to show the participants. If they have that picture on their card they cover it with a token. You can be creative with tokens. Eg. golf tees for Golf Bingo. The first person with all the pictures covered calls out Bingo

Memory Albums

A . Make a memory book- you can use a scrapbook album and a client’s photos to make a book about the client’s life. It can be made to look very attractive using some materials and techniques from the art of scrapbooking. Each double page could be an era in the client’s life. Eg childhood, school, working days etc. Write a simple story in large print so it can be used over again with the client. If this craft is new to you take a few lessons and also find good tuition on the internet.

B . You can make a very simple memory book using just a few pictures for a client whose memory is fading. A recycled child’s storybook in very thick card works well. Cover each page with appropriate scrap booking paper. Add pictures chosen by the client with family help of people pets etc. that bring him joy. Crop and mount the picture. Add in very large print (48p) the person/pet/place name. You can also purchase chipboard albums for this purpose.

Matching swatches of different textures, colours and designs

An idea for one-on-One with dementia client

Make the resource.
Obtain some material swatches of furnishings materials (upholstery or curtain) or wallpaper. Your local supplier would probably be able to give you samples. Use ten swatches and cut each in half making 2 pieces of each swatch. Carpet or laminate samples would also work well.

Activity.
The client looks and feels the swatches enjoying the colour and texture of the swatches. The client then matches each swatch with its partner. The discussion might be about furnishing a room and choice of texture and colour. If the matching activity is too easy choose more swatches for next time. If too hard, use less.

Follow on activity.
Use swatches of different clothing fabrics made from remnants. Choose ones with a variety of colour and texture. Talk about fashions and dressmaking.

Cheap and easy tools for artwork

Use up those old credit cards. They make great tools to paint with making great abstract pictures and are easy to use. Use it to mix into a pool of acrylic paint and scrape over the page.

Try with different colours and see a spectacular result.

Pencils with rubber tips are also great tools. Put the rubber side of the pencil in paint and apply coloured dots over the page. Change colours to make an interesting design.     Rubber Stamp Artwork

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