Communication Products for Daily Living
Wisdom Across the Ages
- Excellent resource for memory fitness programs and activity professionals in all
settings.
by
Kathryn Kilpatrick,
MA, CCC/SLP
$15.00
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Everyone has unique thoughts, opinions, and life experiences to share. Age does
not matter! Wisdom Across the Ages, through questions that serve as conversation
starters, create opportunities for several generations to share stories. When just
chatting, the answers you have may surprise you. Excellent for intergenerational
sharing and provides a wonderful way to begin creating a life story. There are so
many precious memories, powerful wisdom and humor in each of our lives and it is
important that those stories are shared and passed on to future generations
HOW TO USE
- Keep the open booklet on a table to use when family or friends visit.
- Have a grandchild begin to use the questions to gather some memories of a grandparent.
- Use as a conversation starter tool for volunteers who are making visits to long-term
care facilities or someone who is homebound.
- Use as part of an intergenerational program – post the responses to a particular
question of several of the residents and guess who that the person might be. Consider
recording the responses and passing them along to family members.
- Post them by the door or elevator in your facility so visitors have some conversation
starter ideas for their visit.
- Use them as conversation starters in a facility while you are waiting for the meal
to be served. Highlight a staff member and resident of the day and have them share
their answers with the group. Share answers during the meal or have a gathering
after it is over for those who would like to tell some of their stories.
- Great gift idea for a reunion, birthday, long car trip or new resident of your facility.
