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1 Current Activities in Longterm Care January/February 2007. The Activity Professional's Magazine Starter tips on creating Also: and using a February and March Activities ! sensory room Log in online to get many more Activities ! Before and After Purpose to Produce a Professional Profile Team Work How to get your staff involved in the new CMS regulations, by Kathy Vickers The Activity Professional's Guidebook: 2007. 200 pages of Handy Activities calendars for each month of A compilation of the year's new evidence-based 2007! medical information that applies to Activities ! Special Activities for all stages of Alzheimer's Printable, writable calendars for downloading residents! from The Guide's own Internet Activities Site! Person-centered, one-on-one Activities to help Medical articles relating to evidence-based you meet the new CMS Activities Guidelines!

2 Activities ! Evidence-based Activities to help you meet the Puzzles, mazes, facts & fun, missing word, clip art, crafts, reminiscence, and more! new CMS Psychosocial Outcomes Guidelines! CEU articles! Men's Activities ! More! Information on the new rules and regulations! Bonus: Also includes 1-year membership in the Guidebooks's own Internet homepage with a large library of Activities for all occasions, plus downloadable print-on calendars! And more! In itself, a $100 value! i v i t y nal's +. t o A c fessi o k : Pro d e b o i Gu 7. 0. 20. = Only $119. __ Activity Professional's Guidebook 2007 + Internet! Only $119. NAME _____ Payment enclosed VISA MasterCard Am Exp Bill me TITLE _____. Card No : _____Exp Date_____. FACILITY NAME _____ Name on card_____.

3 FACILITY ADDRESS _____. Card address if different from facility_____. _____. City _____ State/Prov_____ Signature_____. Zip_____. Phone Mail to: Freiberg Press, PO Box 612, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Ph: 1-800-354-3371. FAX: 319-553-0644. Current Activities in Longterm Care A letter from Marge Pages 4-6. Team Pages 7-9. 10. January/February 2007 February Calendar section Pages 12-26. Volume 34, Crossword 13. Word 14. Editor A-maze 15. Kate Lynch Leaky Faucet/Bologna roll-ups/Indoor Research Reporter Balloon 16. Lorena Tonarelli, For the birds/Wedding fair/Goin' fishin' in Production Manager 17. Kathy Freiberg Alzheimer's Aromatherapy 18. Ph: 319-553-0642. Person-centered activity First crush!..Page 19. Fax: 319-553-0644 Facts and 20. Email: Terrific 21.

4 Internet: Missing 22. The year in 24. To our readers: A bit of wit/Ever 25. They said it! / Wisdom of the 26. This may seem like a dreary time of year, but take a February Calendar Page 27 & 30. closer look, because there are several really big events March 28 & 29. coming up! The first is January 22-27, National March Calendar 31-46. Crossword 32. Activity Professionals Week! It's a whole week Word 33. dedicated to you! For many, it's a perfect time for the A-maze 34. residents to give thanks and appreciation; for others, Sheet keep/Big Dice 35. it's simply a time to take a well-needed break from Location, Location/Dropping eggs/Clever work. Whichever way you decide to celebrate, take 36. Alzheimer's Arm 37. time to give yourself a pat on the shoulder!

5 Men's 38. Facts and 39. With the beginning of the new year, we would like to Terrific 40. know your thoughts and opinions on the magazine and Missing 41. where you would like to see it go in the upcoming The year in 43. A bit of wit/Ever 44. year. Are there things you would like to see more of? They said it! / Wisdom of the 45. How about less? What are some of the things you Activity professionals research 46. use all the time? What are some of the things you CEU 47-50. never use? Please help us by filling out the short Round 51. survey on page 10 and faxing it to us at 319-553-0644. Sports Planning 52. Answer 53-54. In addition, we are still looking for people willing to Current Activities in Longterm Care (ISSN 1556-0236/USPS 340- 530) is published bi-monthly for $49 per year by Freiberg Press Inc.

6 , 2302. make $150 by writing an article that you feel would be W. 1st Street, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Periodicals postage paid at Cedar useful and helpful. Just e-mail me Falls, IA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Current Activities in Longterm Care , PO Box 612, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. your article idea and I will respond letting you know to INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: $49 per year in Canada. The words " Funds" must appear on any check drawn on a Canadian bank. For rates to proceed, or I will give you a few simple ideas on how other countries, contact Freiberg Press. Notice: We attempt to be as accurate as possible with the information to improve it. Anyone and everyone can write in, so presented in this publication. But because of often differing medical please share your ideas with us!

7 Opinions, rapidly changing research results and therapeutic recommendations, combined with a wide range (and constantly changing). set of employee regulations in different types of situations, the information contained here should not be implemented without Current Don't forget to download your free Activities , posters, guidelines from your own medical and supervisory personnel. and calendars online! OTHER PUBLICATIONS by the same publisher: Geriatric Care, Monthly Mini-Lessons in Care of the Aging, Current Nursing in Longterm Enjoy! Care, Activities Etc., Nurse Aide/VIP, Alzheimer's Train- the- Trainer Teaching Manual and Alzheimer's Care Guide. Copyright 2007, Freiberg Press Inc. No part may be reproduced for any Kate Lynch use without permission.

8 Editor Printed in the USA. A letter from Marge By Marge Knoth Purpose to Produce a commercials, and a newspaper conservative clothing says we are column called Do you Remember task-oriented. Professional Profile in which I wove my residents'. There are activity directors and there memories in with researched facts. Let your body speak are activity professionals. You I also began to share the things I was professionalism choose which you want to be. learning with other activity Without a word spoken, people form Twenty-seven years ago, I started in professionals (back in the early 80s) impressions about us. Erect posture the field as an activity director in this newsletter, which was then speaks confidence and high self- because I didn't know any better.

9 Called the Activity Director's Guide. esteem, while slumped posture Then came continuing education communicates low spirits, fatigue, or activity workshops, semi-annual In those early days of our career, inferior feelings. Depressed people activity conferences, and monthly activity directors were considered walk around with their head down, district meetings with other activity merely bingo, basketball, and Bible sometimes their hands in their directors. I read what I could find study ladies, but I was convinced that pockets. Muggers, when stalking about our field, though there wasn't we were more than that. So in 1988, victims, are aware of this head-down much available at the time. I learned I wrote my first book, The position, assuming their victim is on the job.

10 I made lots of mistakes. Professional Activity Director. I vulnerable and an easy target. I challenged myself to take on bigger challenged other activity directors to and bigger events, to involve our think and speak of themselves as Eye contact can gain us respect and residents in community events and to activity professionals. Well, that's approval. When we look someone bring the community into our facility. been many years, and ten books ago, directly in the eye, we are perceived I watched and admired professional but I am still growing and learning as being warm, caring, and women who would drop by our every day and challenging other trustworthy. On the other hand, facility. I noticed how they dressed, activity directors to do the same.