Tag: nursing home activities
Activities in Senior Care Homes – What to Expect; What to Demand
Activities in Senior Living The activity program for residents is at the heart of senior care communities. Here is a primer on nursing home and assisted living activities that can help both professionals and family caregivers understand the expectations and responsibilities associated with a quality program. Go here.
Looking for Nursing Home and Assisted Living Activity Directors to Pilot New Music Program
I am excited to announce a new, inexpensive way to broadcast live music over the Internet to residents in assisted living, skilled nursing and to elders in their home. It is called Stageit and it is an online venue that allows musicians to stream exclusive LIVE concerts. I will stream...
Sing a New Song – Songwriters Work Educational Foundation
I came across a great find that might be of interest to you. Songwriting Works䋢 Educational Foundation serves hundreds of elders, families and practitioners by pairing professional songwriters with elders to compose original songs. To date, 3,000 participants have composed 300 songs. In their workshops, participants collaborate with professional songwriters...
Active Twitter User Celebrates 104th Birthday
OK I can’t get my 88-year-old mom to look at a computer and here we have dear Ivy Bean in England on Facebook and Twitter with more than 45,000 followers. Read the CNN article here. Then go and read my friend Laura Bramly’s blog about the larger implications and what...
Be Quiet Sharon Osbourne
OK I admit I watch America’s Got Talent, even auditioned in Charlotte last year. Last night Sharon Osbourne, one of the judges, told a group of young singers and dancers that their material belonged in an elder folks home or something to that effect. Now even I admit that the...
Music and Healing – Growing Scientific Evidence
I have witnessed hundreds of times in nursing homes how a seemingly incoherent person can come alive during a performance. Anecdotal and observational evidence of the healing power of music abound. But now science is catching up. (Check this article at CNN about musicÛªs therapeutic value.) The article states, “Music...
Better Training Needed for Activity Directors
Activity directors in nursing homes are a special group but just like nursing homes some are better than others. Perhaps it has to do with training. More than likely perhaps it has to do with whether they have a real affinity and love for seniors.
The Sparks of Life Program More Evidence of the Healing Power of Music
Thanks to reader Laura Bramly who alerted us to this program in Australia. It is called the Sparks of Life program and uses music therapy, along with leaders trained as facilitators. Here is a link to a video. It shows two people with dementia who were unresponsive prior to taking...
Pet Therapy in Nursing Homes
I came across this “obituary” for Boo. Boo was a therapy dog who made 3,000 visits to nursing homes during his career. Pet therapy is just one of many ways to be of service not just this week, National Nursing Home Week, but all year round. Let’s just hope that...