Person centered activities for those with dementia

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 Person centered activities take into account the whole person. We consider everything from persons’ interests,backgrounds, likes, past family dynamics, limitations, special behaviors, and cultures

Our workforce is a unit of highly creative caring individuals. with unique characteristics such as: creative, quick thinking, adaptive and modification skills,exceptionally positive attitude, enthusiatic, flexible, self esteem boosting, intuitive, and extremely patient

Our staff takes ordinary activities and turns them into extraordinary events.**Examples include: -a ball game where we use a wide variety of balls with many special qualities. We also use balls and other sensory items for unique purposes such as: grounding a low functioning resident

-Real conversations with real people- where we focus on sharing stories about real life experiences and residents unique past experiences. We try to add humor all the time

-Activities using imagery such as: pretending we are fishing using real or unusual, safe fishing gear

-Creative writing activities including composing short stories and creating different types of poetry

-Music activities taking simple sing a longs and alike and transforming them into multilevel, multifunctional experiences