{"id":2752,"date":"2000-07-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/long-distance-caregiving-activity\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:42:30","slug":"long-distance-caregiving-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/long-distance-caregiving-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Distance Caregiving Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><p><b>HAVE FUN WITH MOM BY &#8216;SNAIL MAIL&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an on-going Mother&#8217;s Day idea to give to both local and long distance family members. Letter-writing and receiving correspondence via the post is a soon-to-be lost form of communication, but one that is very familiar to the current generation of seniors living in care facilities. Why not play with Mom via &#8216;snail mail&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Depending upon the abilities of mothers residing in care, consider sending any of the following which may be appropriate for the individual:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>newspaper clippings from hometown papers<\/li>\n<li>brochures or postcards from tourist attractions you have recently visited<\/li>\n<li>fridge magnets-many care facilities have metal cabinets or metal head boards on beds in resident rooms.<\/li>\n<li>photos of the kids, grandkids, your current house renovations, trips etc.<\/li>\n<li>theme pictures and photos-e.g. flowers, pets, scenery, old friends<\/li>\n<li>find books of word searches or puzzles and send them to mom, one page at a time.<\/li>\n<li>play &#8216;turn-taking&#8217; games via the mail-e.g. hangman, tic tac toe etc.<\/li>\n<li>lace handkerchiefs, pretty pens, costumejewellery, scented sachets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Try to drop something in the mail once a week to keep the fun, interest and novelty going with this &#8216;snail mail&#8217; project. Set a regular routine to post your mail and then the fun is more likely to become habit.<\/li>\n<p>Most importantly, enclose a large stamped, self- addressed envelope each time you mail something to mom. This encourages mom to send you back other games, puzzles and random collections of doo-dads and to be part of the family.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what is sent in your envelopes or what mom sends you back, you will be giving your mom a true gift of fun!<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from: The FUNe-mail Archives, DEEPFUN.com.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Karen Schaefer &amp; Shelley Purdon. Editors of CanGO Quarterly Magazine: Canadian Geriatric Opportunities in Therapeutic Recreation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun activities that could be done with your parents to make them feel happy: Snail Mail.  Send various paper clips, pictures, or brochures via mail to your paprent to make them feel part of the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,18,9,11],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1157],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caregiver-issues","category-eldercare","category-grandparenting","category-mental-health-emotional-issues","category-wellness"],"authors":[{"term_id":1157,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"shelly-purdon","display_name":"Shelly Purdon","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}