October 25–29, 2021
Theme: Games of Life
Skill Building: Aging With Style and Wisdom
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday October 25, 2021
Today happens to be...Punk for a Day Day
Theme for the Month: The Games of LIfe
Skill for the Week: Aging with Style and Wisdom
Hope Program Updates
Share any program news.
Hope Learning Board representatives did some more brain storming. Check the updates page to review their ideas.
PRESENTERS: if you have members of the board in your group, let them tell the ideas and explain the page.
Thematic Media
Aging Well - What people who age in good health can teach us
Thematic Activity
Review these tips for aging gracefully.
OR
Body Break
LEAVE the SCREEN for at least 10 minutes and go move around in your space. Jump, dance, do push-ups, anything to get your body moving.
Skills Media
Having a sense of humor about aging
Skills Information
Skills Applied
- What does aging mean to you?
- At what age do you think people are "old"?
- What do you admire about people you know who are older than you?
- What would you tell people you know who are younger than you?
- What do you think will change about your life as you age?
- What will you be happy about as you age?
Body Break
This week you will have the same yoga option for all 5 days. In Yoga it's considered important to do the same poses over again and get better and better at doing them.
Funny Stuff
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Today happens to be...Microneedling Day
Theme for the Month: The Games of LIfe
Skill for the Week: Aging with Style and Wisdom
Hope Program Updates
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Thematic Media
Thematic Activity
- In your group, find out the middle age of your group.
- Have the people who are older tell the people who are younger what they have to look forward to.
- Have the younger people ask questions of the older people.
- Is age-ism only against older people, or do younger people experience it too?
Body Break
LEAVE the SCREEN for at least 10 minutes and go move around in your space. Jump, dance, do push-ups, anything to get your body moving.
Skills Media
Just like activism for people with disabilities, activism to stop ageism is important for a fair and civilized world.
If a disability doesn't define you, neither should your age.
Skills Information
It's OK to have a sense of humor about the difficulties of aging, just like it's OK to have a sense of humor about a lot of things in life that are challenging. But we should be aware if we are promoting wrong ideas about aging without realizing it.
Review this list of things that are age-ist and raise your awarenes.
Skills Applied
Do you have some of these ideas in your head? Do you think they are true? Can you consider the possibility that they might not be true? If you were much older than you are, how would you feel about some of the things in the list?
Body Break
Chair Yoga - same workout with focus
Fun Stuff
Older adults having way more fun that you...
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Today happens to be...Navy Day
Theme for the Month: The Games of LIfe
Skill for the Week: Aging with Style and Wisdom
Hope Program Updates
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Thematic Media
Social Connection and healthy aging
Thematic Activity
Review this self-assessment about your social connections. You don't have to complete the whole worksheet. In your group choose one or more sections and fill it out and talk about it.
Body Break
LEAVE the SCREEN for at least 10 minutes and go move around in your space. Jump, dance, do push-ups, anything to get your body moving.
Skills Media
Skills Information
Health Benefits of pet ownership
Skills Applied
The video named some reasons people can't have pets, like rules in an apartment complex, the cost of pet care, older people might fall because of their pets, or other reasons.
Can your group come up with some solutions to some of these problems?
Here is one technology solution that is interesting.
Body Break
Fun Stuff
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Today happens to be..Animation Day
Theme for the Month: The Games of LIfe
Skill for the Week: Aging with Style and Wisdom
Hope Updates
Share any program news.
Thematic Media
This is a video that can direct a person to resources for legal protection. Watch the video together then look up the resource they recommend.
National Center on Law & Elder Rights
Thematic Activity
Review and discuss the 1st page of this document on Elder Rights.
- This document is from Australia. Do you think some of these points still make sense in the US?
- What rights would you add to this list?
- Are these the same rights that everyone should have? Or are some of them just for elder people?
- Can you think of rights that children should have that might be similar?
Body Break
LEAVE the SCREEN for at least 10 minutes and go move around in your space. Jump, dance, do push-ups, anything to get your body moving.
Skills Media
Skills Information
(Centegenarians are people who are 100 or older)
Skills Applied
- If you live to be 100, which of the people in the video would you like to be like?
- What advice that they gave made the most sense to you?
- Will you change anything about your attitude because of what they said?
Body Break
Fun Stuff
AGe your photo-you'll need to upload a small photo of yourself or someone in the group to make it work.
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday, October 29, 2021
Today happens to be...Buunch of different stuff
Theme for the Month: The Games of LIfe
Skill for the Week: Aging with Style and Wisdom
Hope Program Updates
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Review the Week
Movie Time
Day of the Dead is right around the corner, check out the short film "Dia De Los Muertos." Here
What did you think of the film?
How do you honor those that have passed?
Body Break
LEAVE the SCREEN for at least 10 minutes and go move around in your space. Jump, dance, do push-ups, anything to get your body moving.
Music
1 HOUR 🎃 Halloween Mix 2021 🎃
Dance
What is the best dance you can make up to the hit song "Spooky Scary Skeletons?"
Presenters: Warning, there is a minor flash sequence towards end of video. Evaluate to determine appropriateness for group.
Body Break
Food
Which treats would you try?
The 30 Best Halloween Candies of All Time
What is your ULTIMATE favorite Halloween candy?
Which candy us your LEAST favorite?
ART
How to draw a pumpkin!- Video
PRESENTERS: You can practice as a group using the white board OR have particiants collect materials from around the house.
How do you keep yourself/others safe during the Halloween season?
Sequence the Week—Help the group review what you explored together over the last week.
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
