Each week, our team of students plans a new activity to present to the residents at Apex. My partner and I planned a craft activity with two components: origami and sticker activity. We aimed to keep this simple yet engaging for the residents. Our origami activity...

This week, we did karaoke with the residents. Our original plan was to divide everyone into groups of 5 (2-3 students with residents) to sing songs, however, we were surprised when it turned out we could use the TV and mic. It was a fun activity, and many of the...

For this weeks session, the activity planned was making jewellery and paper bracelets. Pre-paper strips were used to make the bracelets. The residents could colour or draw patterns on the paper to design their original band that they could keep. The jewellery making...

This Monday, we decided to have an enriching games session with the residents. We brought a bunch of games such as Jenga, Bingo, and mini-bowling among others. Whilst planning the activities, we thought carrying a chess board would be a good idea. Unfortunately, none...

Today we chose to do origami with the patients and then after we would have them decorate it and have them write their name on it. I think today we could have been more prepared as Sakura who was supposed to bring the instruction sheet on how to do origami was sick...

In this session, we did a Pictionary game, where we had to draw something and the PWD had to guess what it was that we were drawing. We came into this activity hoping to stimulate their creative skills, hoping they could use some skills that they would not often use...

Monday 11/02/18 Today's session was an in-school session and we introduced the new 9th grade students to the service. We established what dementia is and how we work with Apex Harmony Lodge and their residents to help stimulate their memories and interact with members...