HO-HO'd out!

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All the jingle bells were more than one resident could handl. Overwhelmed he left the dining room and retreated to his room.

How easy it is to forget how something as simple as choir singing and making merry can upset someone's sense of inner peace..

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Specializes in LTC.

I hate working the shift right after the residents have their holiday party. The party is fun but it interrupts their usual daily routine and many just don't handle that well.

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Specializes in LTC and Pediatrics.

Yeah, I am looking for an evening of where it will be hard for the resident's to settle down for the night tomorrow nigh.

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I must add that, overall, Christmas brings a lot of joy to many, so, Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas!!

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Specializes in Geriatircs/Rural Hospitals.

Why in the world do they have carolers at 7pm at night. Most of the residents are in bed asleep.I mean, really

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I read this before I realized this post was in the LTC forum. I thought the OP meant medical residents. Imagine my confusion as I continued to read through the replies....:)

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I read this before I realized this post was in the LTC forum. I thought the OP meant medical residents. Imagine my confusion as I continued to read through the replies....:)

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

Seems the aides on one of secure dementia units thoughts it was a good idea to keep reminding the residents that it was Christmas Day...A few reacted with gleeful childlike wonder.....Several just cried.Wish I had been there.It would not have happened

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Seems the aides on one of secure dementia units thoughts it was a good idea to keep reminding the residents that it was Christmas Day...A few reacted with gleeful childlike wonder.....Several just cried.Wish I had been there.It would not have happened

Ugh.. Some forget or simply don't understand what that condition does to a person. I HATE it when people constantly remind the patients with Az what the current reality is, when they known darn well how much it upsets them. For god sakes - if living in 1950 gives them peace - let them have it.

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

I know they mean well but they just don't get it.One calls them "her rezzies" and makes little fascinators and bows and such for the ladies.Last Halloween she brought in face paint and was going to make them all up.Not my mother,thank you....

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I know they mean well but they just don't get it.One calls them "her rezzies" and makes little fascinators and bows and such for the ladies.Last Halloween she brought in face paint and was going to make them all up.Not my mother,thank you....

Right. If the resident enjoys the holidays /it brings them joy - go for it, but otherwise leave them the heck alone. Most residents don't seem to be real thrilled about most Halloween celebrations - there is somthing about already having one foot in the grave plyus they come from a different generation with different celebrations. I have had a few that could take the humor of the holiday and went with it, they were typically our younger residents.

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