New ‘Memory Quiz - Trains’ just uploaded. Why not take a look? Likes 👍 and subs 🔔 and shares ♻️ would be great. https://youtu.be/Y0wc7dQ8ImA?si=-ymwhJuptl8OHKQR
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New 'Hollywood Icons - Actresses' CST activities vlog for people with mild to moderate dementia just uploaded. Hope you enjoy. Likes & shares would be great.
Here is a new Dementia Cafe Quiz / CST activities page. Hope you like it? Shares would be great 👍 https://www.simondementia.co.uk/single-post/river-deep-mountain-high
🏞️ River Deep, Mountain High
This is a new CST activities page celebrating another aspect of our beautiful planet, this time rivers and mountains. Begin the session by asking who enjoys spending time near rivers, canals or lakes?Who prefers climbing (or driving up) hills and mountains?How many rivers & hills and mounatins can the group name? (Hopefully, some will feature in the following picture quiz.)IdiomsComplete these well known phrases, by way of a shout out ... River deep, mountain HIGHCry me a RIVERStill waters run D
Dementia Cafe Book Lovers Quiz 📚 Hope you enjoy https://www.simondementia.co.uk/single-post/dementia-cafe-quiz-book-lovers-quiz
Dementia Cafe Quiz ☕️ Book lovers quiz
Here is another Dementia Cafe quiz for your members' enjoyment. The idea is to print off the book cover & movie still images for the tables (or you could use screen shots) and ask members to match them up. There is a music playlist to link with the images to provide musical interludes.Bonus Round. Name the authorComplete their names ...J.R.R.EmilyDaphneArthurAgathaStephenCharlesWilliamJaneMarkEnid GeorgeC.S.J.M.H.G.CharlotteJ.K.Victor Roald TennesseeD.H.Here is your Spotify playlist ... https://
"Name That Tune" 📀 Best Ever Duets
Using the Spotify playlist below, ask members to identify the Classic Duet, including artists and song titles. Play the first few bars, or as much of the song as you like, and use the pictures as visual prompts to help with recognition. Have the "pause" button ready to hand if any member/s raise their hand to say they want to listen to the full song. You could also cross to Spotify to play the relevant videos of the songs they choose to listen to in full. Here goes ... Clues ... The song has the
Guess The Adverts
This music and picture quiz is a stand alone short CST activity session, based on long term memory recall. Hopefully members will not only recognise the advertising slogan, but in some instances remember the songs and actual adverts as well. The idea of using reminiscence materials such as these advertising slogans with people who have cognitive impairment is they access long term memory, which is often better preserved than short term memory. Also they use music and rhythm which is often better
Famous Addresses Quiz
Here is another Dementia Cafe Quiz activity. Print off the images and ask members to match them with the addresses. Discuss the characters and TV shows as you go along. Here are some linked songs, to add another layer of enjoyment ... Here is a Spotify playlist ...
Blue Monday 💙 2nd Monday of January
The second Monday in January is said to be the most depressing day of the year. Festivities are over, people are back in work, budgets are tight and the weather is at its worst. So this CST activities page celebrates all things blue with optimism and fun in mind. Let's beat those blues and get ready for spring. To begin with, ask members if they feel blue at this time of the year? What do they do to cheer themselves up? What ideas do members have for making things less depressing and more uplift