Alli's Internship Day 3

Today I was on the 4th and 3rd floor of the facility and those are the geriatric floors. This morning we played basketball. We set up the group into a big circle and each one of them got a turn to shoot into a hoop. To give everyone a fair chance we had to different hoop sizes so they each could make it a successful experience. Most of the people I was working with were in wheelchairs so we adjusted the equipment so it would work for them in a positive way. It surprised me how well some of them did I was not expecting that at all. Than we went down to the 3rd floor after lunch and set up a sensory group for the younger adults and we set up lights and different tactile objects for them and it went very well and they seemed super relaxed. After that we took a different group of people and played a reminiscing game called shake awake a memory. You roll the dice and the number you roll matches a card and that card has a question and if you have done what is on the card you keep it and whoever has the most in the end wins. Some of the memories and stories that were shared were filled with so much detail it was amazing. I think I found some great candidates for the TTAP Method. So far my internship has been great and tomorrow a Zumba instructor is coming and we are making sock snowmen to go with our winter wonderland theme, can't wait!