success stories
hi, my name is julie i am activities coordinator in abbey lodge care home.our residents enjoyed t-parties, chocolate tasting afternoon,trip to the shops,cinema afternoons and an exercise morning as part of dignity action day.
Hi Julie sounds like you and the residents had a great time on Dignity Action Day - I hope it continues - You certainly had time for digni-tea well done.
Hi jan thanks for replying to my post on dignity action day , i spread my activities through the week as i work in such a big care home. If you have any more suggestions for meaningful activities please share them with me as new ideas are always welcome. I have also been going round other local care homes in my area and getting to know the other co-ordinators which has been good as we can sit and pass about ideas, also they have been coming to our home with some of their residents to enjoy singers and tea-parties which has proved a great success.
Hi Julie there are some ideas on the dignity action day pledges and we have some activity co-ordinators on the Facebook page dignity in action. Have you had a go at the Dignity Tree - some people use the leaves in many ways e.g. red and green leaves - red to denote times when dignity is eroded/not upheld - green to provide solutions to improve. Pamper days seem to be popular too. Last year I recall one home had a retired librarian and she was encouraged to invite people into her room to discuss favourite books and poems. She didn't know other people could go in her room! I did a workshop yesterday with people who have physical disabilities and one gentleman referred to not getting to know him - it transpires he had been a national sports champion and he loved sport - the care staff are talking more to him about how they can develop activities around the type of sport he enjoys. There you go a couple of starters for ten.
Hi Julie,
This isn't quite 'an activity' but it is 'sort of related'.
A few weeks ago, Nursing Times online ran a story about a Care Home which had set up within it 'a Pop-Up Pub' in a part of the building, which I really liked as an idea. If you can't go to the pub, bring the pub to you. Someone else posted that she knew the same thing had happened a few years ago, in her area. I like that type of 'thinking', but I guess it depends on how large the CH is, amongst other things. I'm assuming these PUPs are much more like the traditional 'back room of a small pub' where people have [or, perhaps, had] a natter and a drink, than a modern 'throbbing with teenagers pub' - but hey, who knows !