what are the advantages and disadvantages of playing bingo withe the elderly people?
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you get to help them which is a pluss.  and they have also been here longer then us.  meaning they know much more..  its cool listening to old folks war and salvery stories.  i dont think theres any disadvantages
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because some people just want things to talk about. also, they might think that the older person might be ahead in the game or take advantage of you
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mainly 3 benefits\n\n1>The govt employees get the golden handshake financial package and after early retirement can still work some where else and still get the pension after 58 years of age.\n\n2>Cleans the hierarchy built over seniority and reservations and makes room for the next generation who are waiting in the wings hoping some one up the pyramid retires.\n\n3>Government functioning  does become streamlined and is more efficient.
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research suggests that the elderly who were good with crosswrod puzzles were less likely to get dementia, I would recommend this as the one, good luck
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You could do something like this:\n\nSuppose that we play a game where there is a token placed on a board that has spaces to the left and to the right.  The game will consist of rolling a die and subsequently moving the token left on odd numbered rolls and moving it right on even numbered rolls - that is, on roll #1 move to the left & on roll #2, move to the right, etc...  The object of such a game might be to see how many rolls it takes to end up at the same space where the token started.\n\nNow suppose that we modify the game in the following way:  We introduce two different collered dice - one red and one green - that are used alternatively on each roll.  Every time the red die is rolled, you move the token in the direction indicated by whether it is an odd numbered roll or whether it is an even numbered roll.  However, whenever the green die is rolled, you move the token in the direction OPPPOSITE of the rule indicated by the odd/even numbered roll.  \n\nOne possible outcome of playing the modified game would be that you start out rolling a 5 on the red die - and since this would be roll #1, you would move the token 5 places to the right.  On the next roll, you roll a 4 on the green die.  Since this is roll #2, you would normally move the token 4 to the left.  However, the green die changes the direction.  Therefore, the token would move 4 to the right.  The effect would be the same as if a 4 were rolled on the red die.\n\nLastly, associate the operation of addition with that of the direction indicated by even numbered rolls and the operation of subtraction with that of the direction indicated by odd numbered rolls.  Also, associate the concept of positive numbers with that of rolling a red die and the concept of negative numbers with that of rolling a green die.\n\nI don't know if this is what you are looking for.  I hope it helps!
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If you have a great mixture of very young and very old, holiday bingo is good and easy. Just make the bingo cards with pictures of things instead of numbbers: a stocking, a doll, a candy cane, Santa, an ornament, a mistletoe, and so on. Then have those things in little slips of paper that you'll pull from to call out, "Under the B, a present! Or you could change the BINGO to SANTA, if you want. Putting together Christmas or wintery puzzles is a good activity if you can set up a few card tables. That way people can congregate for a little while or for the whole puzzle and different people get to visit as they move around to different puzzles. If you have some old family Christmas videos of when some of the older ones were very young, this is always a lot of fun for everyone to watch, too. You can just have them playing in the background rather than commanding everyone to sit and watch for a period of time.
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Each player has 3 lives. They each select a double by throwing at the board with their 'wrong' hand. Every time an opponent hits somebody elses double that person loses a life. Play continues until only one player is left alive. A variant is to play "blind killer" whereby nobody knows which double the other players have and they throw at any double. When 1 is hit which belongs to a player that player is eliminated. 1 life each makes for a quick and fair game where nobody can be accused of "ganging up" on 1 player
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CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY
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I live in a town that is more geared to senior activities, because they openly seek retired people.  So my grown children have the same problems you do.  Unfortunately, we need the younger population to work at jobs that seniors want as services in the community but we don't provide reasons for them to stay in the community!  May I suggest that since you see this problem, could you turn it into an opportunity for yourself to open such a venue that would attract a younger crowd?  Give them much needed entertainment value?  A comedy club/restaurant, or drive-in movie theater or internet cafe or something?
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Advantages: cooling, fresh air. Disadvantages: heat, stale air sickness.
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Just buy some cards or board games and explain to them how it goes, and play.
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I play a game similar to fetch with my hippie. I go out on the back patio open top to the pool and then tell my hippie that their an army recruiter talking to the eighteen-year-old next door. Than I step back, watch my hippie run out the back door, across the porch, and into the patio pool. Once he is in I start scrubbing him with every shampoo, conditioner, and soap product know to twenty-first century woman.
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Visit the nursing home and take an elderly for a walk. Become friends with them and make thier day and u will have a bright day too. So get active with an elderly. U be surprise how active one can be when they have some one to move more with. Have fun!!!
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did you ever play that game when you were a kid - you all sit in a circle and someone whispers a message into the next person's ear, it travels around the whole circle in whispers until the last person speaks it aloud? Remember having a laugh at the crazy hogwash that it tended to turn into by the end of the round? Now imagine that it is not a bunch of kids having fun for 10 minutes, but a large number of powerful people with varying agendas who played this little game for 2000 years...;-)
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The advantage is it's free.\n\nThe disadvantage is that is very unsophisticated and gives you very little control as what to allow in or out.\n\nZone Alarm is a much better choice.
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there are many paper & pencil games to do.  Like the dot game already mentioned.  Hangman's Bluff is another; SOS; Battleship to begin with.  For outside, there is foot races; who can do the best tumbling. soummersaults, whatever the imagination makes up--best impressions of Buster Keaton's or Charlie Chaplin's walk.  Have fun!
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From the Geriatric Tactics Manual GM-25, ed. 1999...\n\n"...as elderly people often regress mentally into a childlike state, appropriate tactics to dealing witha difficult child can be used.....when the elderly patient is difficult or erascible, it is often because they are tired. In these cases, it is an acceptable tactic to set the clocks forward a couple of hours and use a rerun of Matlock to lull them to sleep...." (no nasty emails please, I'm just the messenger).\n\nI would say that while dishonesty is a sin in any form, I don't think the sin-o-meter will spin very hard against you on this one.  Grandma needs her sleep.  You need your sanity.