The residents loved holding them and petting them. Life Care Center of Raynham, Massachusetts also welcomed baby animals from a traveling petting zoo, including bunnies, goats and kittens. Barn Baby Day was a real hit with visiting piglets and baby goats! Life Care Center of Seneca, Kansas, celebrated with a plethora of fun and surprises! Department heads teamed up, chose a day and ran with it, coming up with unique themes like Tropical Paradise, Masquerade, Hip Hippie Hooray and Freaky Friday! Activities included inflatable snow rides, hula hoops, mango jousting, table tennis, mask decorating and a giant game of Hungry Hungry Hippos!Īnimals made NSNCW fun at Life Care Center of the North Shore in Lynn, Massachusetts. Each received a canvas and art supplies and enjoyed expressing their creativity.
#MATHLETE VS ATHLETE PARTY PROFESSIONAL#
Later in the week, residents enjoyed their own professional art class. The winners of the races received flowers. The co-worker had to wear the outfit purchased especially for them – to much laughter! The facility also received visits from miniature horses, alpacas and a 7-day-old goat, and residents and staff enjoyed riding on a flamingo float and a zebra float.Ĭamellia Gardens of Life Care in Thomasville, Georgia, kicked off National Skilled Nursing Care Week with Western Day and had its own version of the Kentucky Derby with department heads, teamed with residents to race their way to the finish line. Associates chose a co-worker and shopped for them separately at Goodwill.
After a Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday, the week’s activities included a Goodwill Hunting Day. The spectators (residents) wore fancy floppy hats while the staff served virgin mint juleps and raced on hobby horses while wearing derby hats. Life Care Center of Punta Gorda, Florida, kicked off their week of celebrations on Derby Day (May 7). The week came to a close with Jamaican Me Crazy Beach Day, complete with a beach ball volleyball tournament, steel drum music and authentic Jamaican cuisine like jerk chicken, rice and beans and plantains. Far-Out ’70s Day had everyone glowing… literally! At lunchtime, associates enjoyed a disco dance party with dimmed lights and glow paint, and in the afternoon, residents played glow bingo and had fun with glowing necklaces, bracelets and makeup. Western Wednesday included cornhole, a baked potato bar and ice cream sundaes. Hattastic Tuesday included a hat fashion show in which associates showed off some very creative headgear, from tables with lamps to a hat made from cereal boxes. Mathlete Monday, involving a tailgate party, wheelchair racing, an egg-and-spoon race and a game show. Life Care Center of Orange Park, Florida, kicked off the week with Athlete vs. Throwback Thursday/Decades Day featured a party with fresh-baked cookies, and on Friday, the facility held a catered Hawaiian barbecue for associates. Sports Day was Wednesday with snow cones. Garden Terrace at Aurora, Colorado, did a Spirit Week for the books! Monday was Manic Monday/Crazy Hair Day with a coffee bar set up for the staff, followed by Tie-Dye Tuesday with pizza. Here are how some of our other facilities around the country celebrated this year (alphabetical by state). Throughout the week, the facility also had theme days, including Twin Day. Associates put together a very long paper chain… long enough to go around the whole inside of the building! You can view their video of the chain here. This year, AHCA’s national theme was “Creating and Nurturing Connections,” and although not every Life Care building followed the national theme, one that took it very seriously was Life Care Center of Ooltewah, Tennessee.
After all, the week was developed by the American Health Care Association to celebrate those who live and work in skilled nursing facilities. National Skilled Nursing Care Week 2022 ran from May 8-14, and Life Care facilities around the country found many ways to engage their residents and associates in fun activities.
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