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In case you’re new to my blog, each month during 2019 I’m featuring acts of kindness your residents can do for other people. So often, nursing home residents are on the receiving end of care, but they don’t have a lot of opportunities to give back.
If you have additional ideas for random acts of kindness, please share them with my readers by posting them in the comment section. Thank you!
1. Provide supplies so residents can create pretty hair bows, then donate them to children at a local homeless shelter. You can find all sorts of fun patterns on Pinterest.
2. Ask residents for recommendations as to their favorite positive, uplifting books. Buy a few copies and write this note inside the front cover: “Feel free to enjoy this book, then pass it along to someone else.” Ask someone to distribute the books in a variety of public places. It’s even more fun if you include an email address. Then people can let your residents know when someone finds a book!
3. It’s sad when Memorial Day events are held to honor those who died in service to our country, and hardly anyone shows up. This year, provide opportunities for your residents to attend these events in your community.
4. Host an ink cartridge drive and send the cartridges to Empties For Cash. (They’ll send you a pre-paid shipping label.) You can request a check and donate the money to the charity of your residents’ choice. Or residents can choose to donate to one of the charities listed on the website.
5. Plant a vegetable garden and donate the produce to a local food pantry.
6. Make tissue paper flowers and give them to the nursing home staff, along with a thank-you for their hard work. You’ll find oodles of pretty flower patterns on Pinterest.
7. Do you live in a community that’s prone to flooding? Residents can help in the flood fight by writing colorful, encouraging notes on empty sandbags. These will uplift the volunteers who fill and place the sandbags.
Here’s a link to last month’s list in case you missed it: Acts of kindness for April
“No act of kindness–however small–is ever wasted. (Aesop)
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