At Sympaticare, each of our facilities has a Therapeutic Recreation Department, which consists of an enthusiastic, passionate group of individuals. Our senior care facilities each offer a monthly calendar of activities meant to cultivate our residents' individual skills, talents, and abilities while promoting their highest quality of life.
Our programs focus on physical, creative, cognitive, spiritual, social, and sensory therapies. The dedicated staff at our senior care facilities run multiple, diverse activities each day, giving the residents a choice to attend an activity anywhere in the facility.
Especially in the senior care setting, leisure activities have an incredible way of building camaraderie, friendship, and loyalty when they are combined with social interaction. This is why it is so important to provide options for those in senior living facilities or nursing homes.
When a resident is placed in our care, the Therapeutic Recreation Department assists them with adjustment to life by introducing them to staff, volunteers, and peers with similar interests. It is important to our senior care management company that each resident enjoys their stay with us.
Here are some ideas for clubs that your nursing home residents may enjoy:
Horticulture Club
From start to finish, the planning, planting, cultivating, and reaping of a garden can be incredibly beneficial. There are all kinds of sensory experiences involved and a whole lot of brainpower to keep executive functions sharp as a tack. The physical work and set-up of the garden can be adapted for almost anyone. This is a terrific hands-on activity that will cultivate good friendships and some beautiful plants.
Casino Club
Several popular casino games can be recreated within the nursing home environment. Card games can be modified to fit the abilities of the residents’ cognitive and motor movements. Many conditions within the senior population would be addressed simply by way of playing a game someone loves. For instance, a person who has had a stroke may have difficulties with visual and physical motor abilities. Playing cards would allow them to identify, reach, grasp, hold, and release.
Music/Dancing Club
Music has such an amazing effect on people and it can have an especially significant impact on those battling mental illness. For example, the area of the brain which recognizes music is typically undamaged in a person who has Alzheimer's or dementia. Thus, listening to music can be very beneficial for someone’s emotional well-being. This may even lead to small exercises for residents from dancing, tapping their feet, or clapping their hands. Find out who plays an instrument and maybe offer to let someone play. This will fill the room with joy in no time!
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The Importance of Recreation in Nursing Homes
Most residents would find multiple therapeutic benefits when it comes to engaging within a club dynamic. Social interaction, variety of movements, and cognitive stimulation are only a few reasons why providing clubs such as these can be a wonderful addition to your senior living facility.
Our Therapeutic Recreation Departments also offer one on one, in-room activities for residents who are unable to or who may choose to engage in primarily independent recreation. All Therapeutic Recreation activities are designed to offer stimulation, structure, entertainment, and enrichment.
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