I visit the Coliseum Park Nursing Home which is also called the Virginia Rehabilitation Center on October 27, 2015.
LOCATION
The location of the Coliseum Park Nursing Home is 305 Marcella Road in Hampton, Virginia.
ASSISTANCE
I assist with an activity with the senior citizens and assist the senior citizen to their rooms at my visit of the Coliseum Park Nursing Home. The Recreation Director, Deborah Adams gather the residents in a small room that was next to the dining room. We were going to start to play a race game.
The race game entailed a white long piece of paper taped on top of three tables. The white long paper had a start line with six color toy cars, which were located behind the line drawn on the paper. There were six squares along the width of the white paper located in front of the start line. The six squares represent the row of each color toy car. There was twenty squares along the length of the white paper. After the nineteenth squares there was a finish line and a spot for the …show more content…
The visit was a very positive experience because the facility was a community between the resident, resident’s families, and staff. The resident were not sad or seem depression. The resident were happy, alert, and enjoy themselves playing the game. There was one man that came in that was not feeling well, but the nurse handle the situation with love and care. Overall, my visit change the negative perceptions I had about some nursing homes by the families I saw spending time with their love ones in the facility and walk their family members down the hallway. Coliseum Park Nursing Home change my perceptive about nursing homes by seeing how dedicate and passionate the nurses and staff are to each residents. The nurses and staff seem to be consider like family to the residents. My visit also change my perceptive about nursing homes because the facility was clean and smell