We were told that there was a wii console at the nursing home, which was bought for the OTs but hasnt really been used and that the residents dont like it ans cant use it, according to the OTs.
Jenna and I thought we would suss it out and see how it works and how hard it was.
We worked out how to set it up and played each game and worked out which games we thought would be able to be used by some of the residents. We then showed the PT and PTA and they gave us permission to run a class the next morning.
We got together some male residents and they played on the Wii. The game that we first thought would be easy for the residents to play was actually the hardest and the game we thought was going to be too hard, the residents could play.
It was really good that there was a lot of residents participated, since we were told that none of them liked it or used it. We didnt have much trouble finding patients who wanted to come down and we talked to other patients about it who are going to give it a go next week.
I found it easy to tell the patients what to do and how to do it and I can do it myself but I found it hard to help them to do it when they have the controller in their hands. This is something that i need to learn to do better so that I can help the resident when they are playing the game.
I was happy that we chose to explore this because we had patients that really enjoyed it and it got them exercising.
We had a patient with parkinsons disease who played golf and played very smoothly and who normally doesnt talk, but he was telling us about different golfing terminology.
It felt good to know we made patients happy and got them exercising.
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