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Organizations like AARP also offer free online classes through their Senior Planet website. Whether it’s actually earning a degree or simply learning to crochet, online classes allow your loved one to interact with other people while learning something new.Ĭheck with your local community college, craft stores and senior centers to see if they offer interactive online classes. Is there something your loved one has always wanted to learn to do? Now’s a great time.
Once you’ve all learned enough to have a conversation, throw a dinner party with your loved one featuring food from a country that speaks the language you’ve learned and require everyone to only speak the new language. Then, when everyone gets together with your loved one, you can practice everything you’ve learned. With online learning programs like Babbel or Rosetta Stone, the whole family can learn new words throughout the week. Make learning fun by making it a family affair. A variety of studies have shown that learning a second language can help prevent the development of dementia. Keeping the brain engaged is an important piece of keeping your loved one healthy.
You can even find fun tabletop versions of outdoor games like cornhole your loved one can play with the whole family. Provide all the fixings and decorations of a summertime cookout in your loved one’s room. Break out your best gingham tablecloth and fire up the grill. Or, maybe your loved one kills every plant they touch, but they really enjoy cookouts. Planting in pots means you can move them back and forth from the window to your loved one’s bed so they can help manage their care. Set up a table near the bed, or use an over-the-bed table and help your loved one plant flowers or vegetables.Īs the plants grow, continue to let your loved one care for them. Think of the outdoor activities your loved one used to do when they were more mobile, then consider ways to bring those activities indoors.ĭid they enjoy gardening? Purchase a few pots and simple plants, grab some potting soil and some handheld garden tools, and create an indoor garden for them. Take a look at these six activities, which could be just the thing to help your loved one feel included and useful despite their limited mobility.Īs always, be sure to check with your loved one’s doctor if you’re concerned about their ability to safely participate in any of these activities. There are plenty of activities that bedridden seniors can do that will keep them involved with the world outside their home. Seniors with limited mobility can often feel as if they’re missing out on the big and small moments of normal life, but being bedridden doesn’t have to be limiting. The world is a big place, but for bedridden seniors, it can seem very small-and lonely.