The Role of Various Stimulating Activities to The Bodily, Cognitive and Psychological for Clients in a Nursing Home

Case Study:

I am work in a nursing home with 10 residents with various needs, including wheelchair users, early stage dementia, and hearing and visual impairments. As part of the stimulating activities they provide the setting celebrate each resident’s birthday with a party.

Activity:

Decorating a room for a fellow resident’s party:

Activities are produced for individuals to develop and promote productivity in residential care users during their stay. Activities such as decorating a resident’s room for the individual’s birthday will provide the individuals with a valuing of care towards the residential home carers which will benefit the service user and carer with a better bond to plan for the best quality of care and better recovery towards the individuals using creative and therapeutic activities.

Individuals in a residential care home will have individual needs which will include difficulties in certain tasks. Individuals who suffer from impairments or disability’s will lack the ability to perform in certain activities such as individuals who suffer from visual impairments will unable to have access towards advanced decorating equipment that might cause injury towards the individual due to impairment of their ability to that individual task. Individuals needs must be taken into consideration while planning activities for individualised individuals of their difficulties of needs and requirement of support and suitability of activities. Resident care workers should provide additional support towards individuals and their specific challenges by modifying their difficulties so individuals can become able to act towards an activity.

Physical:

Physical improvements can be provided towards residential care patients by applying support towards individuals who might have difficulties within mobility or gross/motor skills. Individuals who suffer with access towards mobility issues should be provided with easier access towards their environment and decrease prevention of aggravation towards individual’s health issues caused by ability of mobilisation. Support can be provided to help the improvement of individual’s physical ability by providing individuals with easy access areas towards their chosen environment and to provide mobility equipment’s such as wheelchairs, hoists, walking frames towards individuals to mobilise in their activities without difficulties

Intellectual/cognitive:

Intellectual and cognitive learning developments can be improved during activities in the residential home by decorating a room for a resident uses the ability of constructing thought into progress of decision making and to be able to contribute ideas to develop from creativity of creating decorations and structuring. Residential care workers can provide towards individuals into improving their ability of progressing brain activity using a creative productive outlet by providing individuals with resources and support towards all individuals without decreasing individuals cognitive learning functions by learning crafts and innovative ideas from teachings from workers which gains education of knowledge towards new learning crafts making skills towards decorating an individual’s room.

Emotional:

Emotional improvements can be made during activities such as decorating an individual residents room for their birthday as activities can include multiple individuals which can bring individual resident service users together and become less withdrawn from isolation which can decrease depression in individuals which will benefit their recovery and can improve individual’s bonds towards carers and patients which can create individuals to become more comfortable within their new environments. Individuals will be able to improve their expressions of emotions towards other to confine against when in need with the support of residential workers to apply personal centred-care towards vulnerable individuals by applying them within activities to distract the individual from negative thoughts of emotions.

Social:

The activity of decorating an individual’s room will improve resident’s social skills by applying individuals in a group activity will provide the opportunity to bring all individual residential residents to bond and corporate in task and communicate along one another which will being individual to become more confident and gain skills to communicate which will gain independence of Individuals into speaking. Individuals who suffer from hearing impairments will be guided support and develop the ability towards advanced communication by the uses of sign language or Makaton to express thought and opinions to others without difficulties. Residential care workers will provide the learning of socialisation of other individuals with learning to lip read and sign to communicate with others who have hearing impairments.

Activity:

Helping to bake and decorate a cake:

Activities such as helping to bake and decorate a cake for individuals in the residential home will provide individuals with entertainment for residents during their stay at the residential home by participating in activities such as baking/decorating a cake for residents to participate will enable individuals to concentrate on tasks of the activity and provide benefits towards all residents needs and values towards the residents birthday by being given a cake which will make individuals feel valued as individuals while celebrating their birthday.

Activities such as baking and decorating a cake must be monitored and provided support towards individuals with certain needs to prevent any hazards or preventions of danger towards self or other residential home users. Individuals who suffer from impairments and disabilities will be supported access towards their needs and granted necessary actions to prevent difficulties or risks of enabling the individual from participating from certain activities that might cause harm towards their needs of requirements. As within a kitchen can contain risks for individuals who suffer from visual impairments without supervision as they are unable to visually access warnings of danger without support of care works to relay against for visual suitability of baking a cake with the uses of heating and electrical equipment which can cause injury of the individual.

Physical:

Physical improvements will be made while baking and decorating a cake for an individual within the residential home by using the access of mixing and pouring material based ingredient and usage of tools will help improve gross/fine motor skills and gain hand to eye coordination with the use of handling tools in order to apply right measurements of proper amounts of ingredient which will develop the ability of strength towards balance and movements that will stabilise control of hand movements. Wheel chair users will be able to adapt toward the activity which will make suitable of the individual by supporting wheel chair users with fine motor risks which use the use of hands without having to use the ability of gross motor abilities of mobilisation around the kitchen environment which will improve individual’s disabilities towards mobility to not be effected of the tasks of baking and decorating a cake.

Intellectual/cognitive:

Intellectual and cognitive developments will be improving during the activities of baking and decorating a cake due to the uses of problem solving and memorising times of baking and measuring of decision making which will be appropriate to make a cake. Ability of skills such as reading instructions on step by step procession of baking a cake. individuals who are visually impaired will be provided braille (text of raised dots) in order to understand information which will develop individuals knowledge and understanding towards learning and progressing on tasks without difficulties of individuals with impairments of sight restrictions are decreased in order to gain suitability towards individuals to be able to participate within the activity without endangering self or other members of staff or residents as well as gaining awareness of their environment and learning the understandings of baking.

Emotional:

Emotional developments can be made during the activities of baking and decorating a cake for individual residents in the residential home. Negative Emotional aspects can decrease by providing concentration in tasks of baking by providing distractions of thoughts and emotions can prevent stress and anxiety in residents by allowing therapeutic activities to cancel out unwanted emotions and depression of individuals using feeling sensory senses connecting individual thoughts on to feelings and touch of baking ingredients. Residents will become relaxed and calm which will provide benefits towards individuals who suffer from early stage dementia due to the activities groundings of emotions which will support and prevent individuals who suffer from dementia to outbursts of anger by the forming of a calm environment of the activity.

Social:

Social improvements can be made during the activities of baking and decorating cake for residents by providing a team work ethic within the activity as this will encourage socialisation towards communicating against ideas of baking and decorating and prevent Individuals from being disclose from talking with other I individuals and residential care workers. By providing the opportunity towards residents to externalise their thoughts can bring comfort and bring individuals together and bond new friendships which can promote self-esteem and bring newly arrived service users to adapt towards their new living setting and other residents.

Activity:

Hair and nails:

Providing individuals in the residential home to be able to be groomed new hairstyles/nail treatments towards individual’s physical care for their birthday celebration will provide individuals to feel confident and boost self-esteem for their party. By providing this as an activity can produce a therapeutic effect on individuals which will benefit multiple aspects.

Activities such as providing hair and nail treatments for individuals in the residential home needs must be able to be suitable to participate within the activity tools will be used to provide treatments towards hair and nails which can be misused and cause harm or risk of hazards towards individuals such as spillages of chemicals or cutting of hair cutters. Care workers should be provided in allowing tools to be kept in safe measures that will decrease misuse of individuals and be applied professionally. Individuals who suffer impairments or disabilities will be attained with support towards applying treatment from others and guided with care of their individualised needs without withdrawing the individual from the activity as this can make individuals feel and neglected of care due to unfair treatment.

Physical:

Providing hair and nail treatments as an activity in a residential home will improve individual’s physical appearance of health by developing better hygiene of individuals in the residential home by providing cleaner and manageable styles will hygienic health prevention of bacterial health issues and spreading from unclean nails. Support being provided for individuals are who unable to attain towards physical hygiene due to physical disabilities or mobility issues or frailty due to illnesses which prevents the ability of maintenance of physical appearance by applying this as an activity individuals will improve overall appearance of healthy hygiene which decreases risk of preventing recovery by attracting other illnesses due to poor or lack of hygiene.

Intellectual/cognitive:

Improving intellectual/cognitive developments in having hair and nail treatment as an activity in residential home will provide individuals on basic knowledge on caring for physical appearance as well as applying to self-new ways of improving physical appearance and ways which suit them without having difficulties in managing self-presentation. Information can be taught my imitating learned methods on how to apply, cut, braid hair and nails which will help individuals progress cognitive and intellectual functioning which will help individual produce brain activity through tasks such as brushing hair or trimming nails. By producing brain activities can exercise the improvements of thinking and normalise brain progressions.

Emotional:

Emotional aspects are improved in providing activities of providing treatments of hair and nails towards residents will develop improvements of self-esteem and confidence due to their newly improved physical appearance which will provide individuals in feeling physically enhanced which will create empowerment towards individuals and an all-round positive effect of emotional wellbeing which can motivate individual’s in reducing risks of mental health and low self-esteem which can prevent opportunities for residents. Individuals will be able to express their feeling more and become less vulnerable towards anxiety and other negative impacting emotions from the therapeutic activity.

Social:

Providing residents with the activity of being provided treatments towards hair and nails will promote individual to become without drawn from isolation by their new self-esteem boost and confidence level which will enable individuals to become more sociable towards conversing with new people in the residential home. By being promoted by confidence of their new physical look of hair style and nails individuals can gain better social interactions daily without difficulties or barriers of communication with individuals who might suffer from certain impairments that might normally restrict an individual from communicating due to confidence in speech.

Activity:

Dancing and music:

Activities such as playing music and dancing for individual’s residential service users birthdays will provide individuals to celebrate their birthdays with entertainment and promote individuals to feel empowered and produce positive influences of emotions during their time in the residential home for individual’s recovery or care of the individuals.

For individual residents to be able to perform in activities such as dancing and listening to music individuals needs must be requited and adapted towards the residential care setting and planning of the individual person. Residential care environments in order to provide physical activities such as dancing should be undertaken in a wide spread room setting without limitations of difficulty or prevention of individuals to withdraw from the activities due to lack of space as well as a prevention of injury due to overcrowding .Individuals needs must be taken into consideration while providing for the activity individuals with wheel chairs will have the availability towards access of mobility equipment and support of walking and ability of dancing if able without causing harm towards gross motor skills or disability that causes mobility to be limited.

Physical:

The activities of dancing to music will improve the physical aspect of I individuals in residential homes die to the use of manor gross motor skills which includes the use of muscles within the legs to mobilise movements within the body to preform dancing movements towards beats of music. Individuals balance will improve performance levels and availability of functions of major body limbs which can benefit individuals who have difficulty in simple body movements of arms, legs, feet, hands and other parts of the body. Individuals who suffer from mobility issues who may require a wheel chair will be able to improve muscle development of dance movements which do not cause difficulties towards the Individual and cause pain towards the resident care user.

Intellectual/cognitive:

Intellectual and cognitive improvements can be made in the activity of dancing to music in the residential home as dancing uses the use of memory to place certain steps in rhythm of music which is played. As well as maximising cognitive function and muscle memory through practices of dancing brain function is increased which allows resident to be able to prevent stages of memory decay which will help individuals who suffer from early stages of dementia from aggressing in a brief period from the usage of brain activity of normal daily functions individuals will be able to prolong deterioration of the disease.

Emotional:

Dancing to music in a residential home as an activity can help individuals improve their emotional state as dancing is a form of exercise which releases endorphins which causes individuals to reduce stress level and increase moods which will benefit individual’s health and mental wellbeing of care towards recovery. Residents will be able to prevent high levels of stress and depression of individuals by participating and listening to music being played by keeping feelings of emotions distracted which might be causing residents issues and continuations of stress preventing problems.

Social:

Dancing can be performed with partners or in groups of individuals in the residential home as dancing is an activity that can use the contributions of multiple individuals. By this activity providing individuals with a close intimacy of social interactions and gathering of individuals to dance and listen to music which will open communication and socialisation of members of family who might be visiting residents during their birthday celebrations which keeps welfare of individual’s close relationships connected which can be important to improve individual’s health states and mental satiability with the providing of friends and family visitations during the activity.