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Fun in the Sun!

An unexpectedly warm winter day is a great chance to get a change of scenery.

Invite your care partner on a sensory walk. Feel the sun on your face and breathe in the fresh air. Explore slowly, stopping to savor every texture, color, and shape in the garden or the park. Get close up and touch silky grasses, smell a lemon, or admire a red camellia flower. Bring a colorful pinwheel out with you, and watch it twirl in the breeze.

It can be fun to collect some souvenirs. When you get back inside, share some tea and use your five senses to enjoy these reminders of nature together all over again.

Creative Aging SF: Power to Change

The Hummingbird Project was thrilled to support and participate in this incredible symposium on Friday 2/9!

It included inspiring stories and creative tools to ignite changes from the very personal level of communicating one’s story all the way to addressing policy-makers. Thank you to all who attended and shared your experience and wisdom. We are grateful for you!

The Value of Art Observation

Art observation offers numerous ways to engage. We offered our client Sam an art book, and The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, inspired him to examine the painting and the two details at length.

He smiled as he discovered different areas of interest during his observation. Sam and his activity specialist took time to read about the painting on Wikipedia and look at a portrait of the artist. The session provided social and intellectual stimulation through discussing the painting together as well as the familiar vocational activities of analyzing and observing images.

Sharing stories and ideas about paintings can offer creative thinking and memory recollection of a very special kind.

Pampering Outings

Living with Alzheimer’s does not take away our clients’ desire to feel pampered and beautiful. Creating a girls outing enhances socialization, dignity and relaxation. Massage and hot towels during a mani-pedi creates sensory stimulation that promotes mind-body awareness. And completing the outing with a creamy coffee drink just makes everyone happy!

Thank you to Pham Nails in Folsom, CA for your incredible patience and kindness!

Physical Quality of Life and Laughter

When Hummingbird clients are doing things they love, there is joy and laughter to be found, regardless of how “well” the actual activity is being done.

While playing golf, at one hole Max shot a beautiful putt that put him below par. Our activity specialist happened to catch that hole on camera and Max declared, “Finally! The press catches the correct moment!”

Max had some excellent shots and some that hit trees. When one of the trees was hit, the ball dropped straight down, coming to rest near the trunk. When Max hit it next, he managed to make the ball run up the side of the tree and bounce off another tree ending up out on the green! Max calmly stated, “I did that for your entertainment”.

Need we say more?

Using Nature as a Canvas

One of our clients decided to collect gourds to use as a canvas. With the goal of supporting this creative idea, our team member first organized a walk to the park for physical exercise and then encouraged his creativity as he gathered gourds. The client added a design to each with a sharpie–and we think they are artistically brilliant! This is another example of an easy and fun engagement opportunity for you to pursue with your loved one or client. When you consider using nature as your canvas the possibilities are endless!

  

Joyful Moments: Meaningful Activities to Engage Older Adults To order please visit www.joyfulmomentscards.net or www.hummingbirdproject.net

A Testimonial from Anne Basting, Timeslips Creative Storytelling

“Joyful Moments: Meaningful Activities to Engage Older Adults are beautifully designed. I think these kinds of tools are really needed in the field of senior care.”–Anne Basting, founder and president of TimeSlips Creative Storytelling

Thank you Anne for your believe in our product and our mission to cultivate joy, engage curiosity and foster personal expression! We would like to express our gratitude to Anne for her life-changing work, and to the entire TimeSlips community who inspires our Joyful Moments philosophy. If you are looking for a great read, please check this out https://parade.com/593803/paulaspencer/tapping-the-creative-brain-for-people-with-alzheimers-and-related-diseases/

Joyful Moments: Meaningful Activities to Engage Older Adults To order please visit www.joyfulmomentscards.net  or www.hummingbirdproject.net

Spiritual QOL: Family Mandala Making

Joyful Moments therapeutic activity card, Discover Mandalas, utilizes the meditative act of coloring in a circle form to support ones creative and spiritual quality of life. See here a picture of our activity cards in action as a family comes together to engage in the act of coloring mandalas together.

What a beautiful expression of family connection, color and joy!

 

Create a Bucket List [Free Activity]

Today it is our pleasure to share this FREE Joyful Moments therapeutic activity card with you! Creating a bucket list is a hugely satisfying intellectual activity, and it will not only generate meaningful conversation but will also allow you to help your loved one or client accomplish their life goals. As you see above, our activity cards provide step by step instructions and fun ways to expand the activity over time.

What’s on your bucket list?

 

Joyful Moments: Meaningful Activities to Engage Older Adults To order please visit www.joyfulmomentscards.net  or www.hummingbirdproject.net

A Very Joyful Moment with Team Hummingbird!

Celebrating our gratitude for each other and everyone we serve, Team Hummingbird came together at the Sage Eldercare Holiday Gratitude Celebration. We wish everyone a beautiful holiday season and hope you will set aside time to spend with those you care about and plan Joyful Moments throughout your days!

 

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