{"id":5636,"date":"2016-08-25T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:52:50","slug":"alzheimers-awareness-activities-for-senior-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/alzheimers-awareness-activities-for-senior-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Awareness Activities for Senior Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With World Alzheimer\u2019s Day coming up on September 21st and National\u00a0Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month in November, consider scheduling a variety of activities that educate others while also stimulating senior residents in your assisted living or nursing facility. Here are some ideas from notjustbingo.com.<\/p>\n

Dress in Purple<\/strong><\/span>: Encourage staff members and even residents to wear purple in recognition of World Alzheimer\u2019s Day. Also tie inflated purple balloons<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0throughout your facility for the day.<\/p>\n

Host an Alzheimer\u2019s Seminar<\/strong><\/span>: Use the day as a way to re-educate and remind staff members of using different therapies when trying to engage with Alzheimer\u2019s residents, like the Validation Method (focusing on empathizing and listening) or the Montessori Method (engaging the senses).<\/p>\n

Coordinate a Memory Walk<\/strong><\/span>: Either plan a memory walk in your facility or join one of the many Alzheimer\u2019s Association\u2019s memory walk<\/a><\/strong> events throughout the country during September or October. If you decide to host an event at your facility, ask family members to pledge money for each lap that their love one walks in your facility\u2019s hallways. Donate the proceeds to a local Alzheimer\u2019s charity.<\/p>\n

Plan Sensory Stimulation Activities<\/strong><\/span>: Consider scheduling a variety of sensory stimulation activities throughout the day that help your residents engage with the world around them. For example, use a ball toss game<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to get residents to share memories as they pass or toss a ball back and forth, or invite residents to join in a sing along as you play music from yesteryear<\/strong><\/a>. Another option is to flood the room with the aroma from freshly popped popcorn<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to spark nostalgic memories, or to use the smells of essential oils<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or different foods as you ask residents to identify them.<\/p>\n

Organize Brain-Health Activities<\/strong><\/span>: Stimulate the minds of your residents by planning activities that help your residents\u2019 recollection, like playing trivia games<\/a><\/strong>, passing around story cards<\/a><\/strong>, or even watching legendary Crooners on DVD.<\/p>\n

Create an Art Gallery<\/strong><\/span>: Set up an art gallery or craft show in your facility that showcases your residents\u2019 works of art. For instance, several days before World Alzheimer\u2019s Day, invite residents to color adult coloring pages<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that can be framed as wall art for a make-shift art gallery in your Activity Room. Organize a crafts fair featuring simple craft projects made by your residents, like autumn leaves<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or these simple paintings<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stock Your Residents\u2019 Rooms:<\/strong><\/span> Store some of your residents\u2019 favorite games and activities in their room so that the activities can be used with them when family members visit. Use lower-level, moderate-level, and intervention-level functioning Alzheimer\u2019s activity packs<\/a> <\/strong>to find fun activities and games that your residents enjoy that can be easily and safely stored in their rooms in an activity container<\/a> <\/strong>just for your resident. Then be sure to educate family members about the activity container and to encourage them to use the stored items in a fun and meaningful way with their loved one.<\/p>\n

For more activity ideas for Alzheimer’s Awareness visit the S&S Alzheimer’s Therapy section<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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About Not Just Bingo:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not Just Bingo<\/a>\u00a0is an online resource of fun, senior activity ideas for activity professionals of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. They have been providing fun activity ideas online since 2009, and continue to assist activity professionals across the country by creating meaningful and engaging activity ideas for their residents that go \u201cbeyond bingo.\u201d Not Just Bingo feels\u00a0privileged to help activity directors better the living experiences of their residents while demonstrating that a senior\u2019s quality of life can actually\u00a0improve<\/i>\u00a0when they move to a nursing facility!<\/p>\n

Want even more ideas each month? Sign up for the\u00a0Notjustbingo Membership<\/a>\u00a0to receive specialized activity ideas to keep your residents and staff engaged, active, and having fun!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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