National Assisted Living Week always requires a little extra work for the activity staff here at the Commons…but man, it’s worth it!!! We had a super fun/busy/exciting/rewarding week! Each day we had a theme from the Legacies of Love which lead to a bunch of extra tweaks to the activity calendar. Here are some things that worked really well that you might want to try if you are ever in the need of an idea!
For part of our celebration for Legacies of Environment we had a program where each resident wrote or researched a poem about the environment…of course they were welcome to come and just listen if they preferred! This program really got the residents’ creative juices flowing! With such a broad topic it was interesting to see the variety of poems and ideas that the residents came up with! One of the ladies even brought her poem book from 1920 and they all started recited a bunch of old poems. It was a hoot!
Legacies of Music brought more fun for our week!!! We had music themed activities ALL day. We really stressed how different music can affect your mood. For exercises we pumped the residents up with upbeat music, for aromatherapy we calmed them down using soothing music, for dinner we provided them with a live flutist, and during gardening club we even talked about how music has been proved to help plants grow!!! We even had the local historical society come in with a traveling, costumed actor to do a presentation on early American music. It was very interesting!
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