Enhancing the Lives of Nursing Home Residents One Volunteer at a Time
Do you invite trick-or-treaters to your nursing home on Halloween? If not, I hope you’ll consider it. This is a highlight of the year for our residents and their families—as well as our employees and their kids.
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I’m sure many of you are working on your activity calendars for October, and I want to be sure you include International Necktie Day. Also known as Cravat Day, we celebrate this little-known holiday on October 18th.
This day offers so many opportunities for fun and creativity. Here are a few of my favorite ideas:
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Only 3 months remain in our year-long challenge to help our residents do acts of kindness for other people. I would love to hear what you’ve done so far! Please let me know in the comment section.
Now here’s our list for October:
(The scent of fall is in the air, so today I decided to repost this popular article from a couple of years ago. I hope it inspires you to help your residents enjoy these lovely, fleeting days of autumn.)
I adore autumn here in North Dakota. When the hot, humid days of summer mellow into the cooler days of fall, it’s wonderful to get outdoors and soak up the beauty of the season.
I’m also a strong advocate for giving our residents every possible opportunity to get outside and enjoy the wonders of nature. Over the next year, I plan to feature ideas for outdoor activities that can be done during each of the four seasons.
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Most people believe that this phrase is the official motto of the United States Postal Service: “Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Is that correct? Well, not exactly. The phrase became popular after it was inscribed on the new main post office building in New York City that opened on September 7, 1914.
As a result, September 7 has become a day to celebrate the postal service. Despite occasional complaints of lost mail or the rising cost of postage stamps, it’s pretty amazing to think that the USPS delivers an average of 484.8 million pieces of mail each day.
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