Help with health promotion games?

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I'm doing a health promotion geared towards the elderly. The topic is on healthy snacks. My group is supposed come up with games for them to do (has to deal with healthy snacks). Another group came up with the idea of quizzes. Any other ideas of simple age appropriate games for the elderly?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Have you thought of any ideas?

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Nope, that's why I'm asking..

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
Nope, that's why I'm asking..

Usually, we hope to see folks give their own ideas which we can edit/improve upon. None of us are likely to be interested in doing your homework for you. Trust me, you are not the first to come to AN.com for answers.

Pretty sure that your instructor meant for you to do some inventive thinking on your own.

Go for it!

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I was thinking about having them identify sugars & other unhealthy ingredients etc on labels. Another group already had a similar idea. Plus it would probably be hard for them to read ingredient labels. It should be age appropriate but not dumbed down or too complicated..

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My community health group and I did fall prevention teaching at a few elderly housing complexes. We started with a brief (10-15min) presentation with hand-outs and poster boards and finished with "Fall Prevention Bingo." The coordinators at a couple of facilities told us we got the best turn-out they'd ever seen because of the Bingo (we put in on the flyers we posted announcing the dates and times of the presentations).

There are free templates you can use on line to make your own games. We used words related to the teaching (instead of numbers) and would include a little follow up teaching point while they scanned their card. For example, if the word pulled was "clutter," we'd say something like, "be sure to keep your floors and stairs clear of clutter." Your group could give out healthy snacks to the winners. It was a big hit and was super fun for us to do as well!

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When I am elderly, I would not want to eat healthy anymore. Eat what I want and enjoy the last few year on this ship.. Bacon wrapped bacon with all the carbs and sweets just before that massive stroke lol.The elderly should be able to do anything they want , smoke, drink, hang out at the clubs till 12 midnight and get stick on temporary tatoo of a hot chick or tramp stamp

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