At Hamilton Home, our activities program is filled with diverse selection of activities specifically catered to our current residents. Our staff strives to fill residents’ days with activities they enjoy, while keeping them mentally, physically and socially fulfilled. On an average day our residents will have options for exercise, creativity, conversation, and music. We understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t not work in assisted living. We are a large enough facility that we are able to offer many different activities each day so that everyone can find something they enjoy. Below is a sampling of activities that we do with our residents. We love for our resident’s family to join us in our activities whenever they can.
Our Senior Activites
Exercise is paramount to the well-being of seniors. Studies have even shown that exercise is beneficial in the prevention of cognitive impairment and dementia. At Hamilton Home, we are proud to offer daily exercise to our residents that is specifically geared to their individual ability. Some of our indoor classes include yoga, strength training, chair aerobics and stretching activities. We also have many options for safe outdoor exercise including gardening, walking clubs and lawn games.
We designed a beautiful outdoor space for our residents to enjoy our sunny Southern California weather year round. Our gardening club enjoys growing fruits, vegetables and herbs in our raised planter beds. We incorporate their fresh grown food into our daily menu. Lawn games are a weekend staple. Our residents enjoy playing ring toss, horse racing, and corn hole. The walking club enjoys short walks around our half-an-acre lot as well as longer walks around our residential neighborhood and beautiful park across the street. Each resident room has its own private patio for residents to enjoy some quiet time outdoors.
Creativity keeps the mind engaged and stimulated. Our staff at Hamilton Home love to constantly find new crafts and recipes for our seniors delight. We offer many ways for our seniors to express their creativity through both visual arts and food. Our crafts include a knitting club, painting classes, making bird and hummingbird feeders for our garden, and being pen pals with a local school. Some of our cooking activities include making dip cups with veggies from the garden for an afternoon snack and decorating cookies for dessert. Many of our residents loved cooking their whole life and we want to learn from them.
Mind Challenges keep our resident’s brain happily engaged. These activities include book clubs, special music, intriguing puzzles, trivia games, and world travel and history lectures. Hamilton Home is also proud to offer Wii games to our residents for improved hand eye coordination. Our residents enjoy playing Wii bowling, Wii golf, and Wii Big Brain.
Sample Daily Schedule
6:30-8:30 Rise and Shine
7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Grooming and Bathing
10:00-11:00 Morning Activity/Exercise Activity
11:00-11:30 Mind Challenges
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Craft or Outdoor Activity
3:00-4:00 Afternoon Activity
5:00-6:30 Dinner
6:30 Evening Music, Story Telling or Movie
8:30-11:00 Sweet Dreams