Too often individuals with disabilities and those in residential facilities get limited opportunities to interact with nature. This is unfortunate because a connection with the natural world offers many health benefits. Among other things, time…
Softball Activity Ideas
There is no doubt softball has many therapeutic advantages for Recreation Therapists and their participants. Softball activities encourage physical activity, gross motor skills, social skills, teamwork, sportsmanship, decision making, and much more. Not every Recreation…
Leisure Guess Who?
Introduction Working in an acute residential setting, many clients come and go without learning much about each other. Sometimes a sudden boost of intakes brings many strangers together at once. Learning what the clients love…
Practicing Meditation: Caregiver Self-Care
I felt it necessary, with Meditation Month closing–okay, I am a few days late with this– to write one more article about the importance of meditation. As a caregiver, practicing meditation will not only help…
Memorial Day Activity Ideas
For us Midwesterners, the cold, dreary weather of January often have us fantasizing about the easy days of summer. Memorial Day is finally here. The official, unofficial start of summer is often celebrated with cookouts….