Nursing Home Resident Gifts

Each year, nurses and assisted living facilities face the challenge of gift ideas, consider their residence. In an attempt to make this task a bit 'easier, here are some ideas for gifts as well as some ways in which we consider the distribution of gifts to the people in your organization could.

Give each resident cut a paper image of Christmas (tree, bell, angel, star) and ask them on their shoulders, their names and certain elements may be written asto receive, maybe some things they need. These can then be put on a wall, bulletin board, or a Christmas tree and staff can pick them and use them to buy gifts for the residents.

You might want to have a dollar limit of $10 or so, or this could get quite expensive. A list should be kept as well, of the resident's names and the staff member who picked them. You don't want to find, at the last minute, that some residents were missed. It could be helpful to have the purchased gifts brought in a couple of days before being split, just to scroll through the list and be sure that all into account.

If there is a possibility that staff may not want to buy for some people, for whatever personal reasons, perhaps collecting the names would be better anonymously. You could draw names from a hat. To continue the idea a step anonymous, you can only choose male or female staff, and every resident receives is independent gift for her gender, rather thanArticle specifically. It could also be an idea, some of these types of gifts for new residents arriving in your body, that have emerged have been to your lists. Do not really miss someone.

If there are just too many people on staff, to shop, see if they contribute to organizations such as churches or Boy Scouts.

Another gift idea is to jointly giving away some nice baskets that can be turned off. Games can be easilyenough to do with a computer and printer and stapled together. The baskets can be like "Beauty" with lotions and soaps, or "Movies" with popcorn, cotton candy, a DVD movie, etc. The cards could be sold for a dollar or two families in which residents come to visit, or buffet will be Scouts were able to sell for you. The money could help buy gifts for the residents as well, or pay for some of the Christmas holiday.

Gifts can be made for each resident room, or deliveredSanta at a Christmas party.

You might also enjoy was distributing the gifts to a party if you could send out a big plastic cube, the more people in turn. If you have a number selected for the special game, like throwing a 4, for example, you can select the gift wrapping gifts under the tree. These should be labeled male or female. Then could be added some time after the gifts have all been selected and the first was extracted, it will be around for a replacement. If anotherIn particular, on the dice to choose his residence, to share with another person or to maintain what they have. Game over when your time is up.

Gift Ideas

This is also good gift ideas for seniors who are not in a nursing facility.

Cheap gift ideas:

Stuffed animals
Clothing
Pajamas
Sweaters
Shoes
Socks
Slippers
Scarves
Hats
Gloves
Underwear
Enamel
Books (fiction, history, hobby specific, large print, audio,Picture)
Magazines
puzzle books (word search / crossword)
Puzzle
Box of greeting cards (you can use year-round to write friends)
stationary
Pins
Games
Music CD
Craft Articles
Tissue
Lotions
Soap
Candy
Chocolate
Cookies
Coupons
Card Game
Plaques
Calendar
tag Grooming
personal photo albums
Fashion Jewelry
Craft Kit

more expensive gift ideas:

Disposable camera (and development)
Audio Books(If you find or download are cheap)
DVD (old TV series like Gunsmoke, I Love Lucy, etc.)
CD (nature sounds, old radios, as shown by the time Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, etc.)
Stock Exchange
Portfolio
Bible
Bathrobe
Lap robe
Jackets
Afghan or Blanket
Magnifiers
Reading lights
Bird feeders
Decorative or ornamental boxes for special items or jewelry
Frames
Radio
Watches
If you can not find the exact gift idea for a resident who works or is retiredin the eye, can help to get started. Many of these gift ideas can also be customized to them a little 'more sense.