AAT : Assisted Animal Therapy
Creature comfort care home residents
ANIMAL magic cheered up the elderly residents of a Brixham care home.
Simon Kite of the town's activity services (Sunshine Activities) visited Frencham House with a host of furry friends
Simon, known as the Animal Man, brought along his well behaved but playful dog Bruno for the residents to groom.
He then gave everyone a rug to put on their laps and handeed out various animals such as chinchillas, rabbits, gerbils, guinea pigs and hampsters for them to hold and stroke.
Nick Ross, the manager at the Stonehaven Healthcare Group registered home, said: "Simon also spoke to the residents and gave various information about each animal. It was a fantastic afternoon and put the smile back on peoples faces. The therapeutic benifits were unbelievable.
Activities
Centre including Therapy based Crafts, Arts, Music :
Torquay, Torbay Devon.
We
provide numerous activities for the elderly and disabled in the Torquay, Torbay, Devon area and we can set a
planned schedule for your residents so that the activities
follow a theme relevant to the time of year or particular
Session.
For example :-
Spring - Making Tissue Flowers, Painting/Drawing Daffodils.
Easter - Easter card making, Making Palm Cross's.
Summer - Shell Animals, Shell Pictures, Summer paintings,
Gentle Aerobics.
Autumn - Corn Dolly Making, Weaving, Basket weaving.
Winter - Christmas Card Making, Christmas Decorations, Christmas
Carols.
A Session may consist of a specific project
which we would do with the group, such as putting on a puppet
show.
We would start with gathering Ideas for the show, then making
the puppets, then writing the script and finely putting
on the show and it may all take place over a number of days
/ weeks rather than all in one go.
The Activities we are able to provide, please click on the headings for more detailed information :-
| Drawing | Montage | Percussion | Animals |
| Pastels | Collage | Sing Along | Poetry |
| Watercolour | Corn Dolly Weaving | Name that tune | Gentle Aerobics |
| Acrylics | Basket Weaving | Play along | Cards |
| Oils | Needle Point | Making Instruments | Dominos |
| Ink | Stained Glass | Board Games | |
| Charcoal | Pottery | Mini Skittles | |
| Origami | Baking | ||
| Macrame | |||
| Paper Mache |