ACTIVITIES IN NURSING HOME
Tablets the new innovation that works
THE TABLET, A NEW ENTERTAINING INNOVATION FOR RESIDENTS
So far, tablet have been an outstanding success with elderly people in care homes! This groundbreaking technology really brings its share of freshness and vitality and a touch of magic in your care home.
Indeed, to keep your residents, their families and your staff happy and dynamic, providing them with entertaining projects becomes vital. Since its apparition in institutions, touchpads appeared as a mediation tool not only between your staff and residents but also between your residents and their own families. By using touchpads, residents can play with family members when they visit or easily send them photos and messages when they are away to keep in touch.
MANY PROFESSIONALS ARE ALREADY USING TOUCHPADS
Numerous professionals are interested in using tablets from their own original angle:
- Activities organizers and facilitators
- Psychologists and psychomotor therapists in their workshops
- Coordinators, to monitor each senior’s statistics on the web platform.
- Medical assistants, caregivers who are increasingly asked to participate in entertaining activities.
With a touchpad, they can easily provide general knowledge or musical quizzes and enjoy playing with the residents as well!
For collective workshops
With several tablets connected to a projector, residents can play together.
For individual workshops
When residents need to stimulate one specific function or dislike group activities, one tablet for an individual workshop will do the trick.
For daycare activities
The tablets can be really useful in continuing care, to stimulate cognitive functions in an entertaining way.
With their relatives
Let your residents freely access tablets as they wish and when their relatives come to visit.
THE KEYS TO SUCCESS
DIFFERENT WAYS OF USING THE TABLET
Every institution uses the touchpads in their own specific way. One tablet can have many purposes :
