individual activities they did that worked well. a couple of the places would bring in therapy dogs and take them to individual rooms for residents to pet and interact with for a short time. she always had pets until assisted living, so i think she enjoyed that. one activity director would come to her room and paint her fingernails. i don’t think she ever painted her fingernails in her life before that, so i never knew quite what she thought about that one. but at least it was one-on-one.
my husband and i often thought that someone could make a business out of being a personal trainer in those kinds of 