I really wish I knew how to speak Spanish, because I sat with five residents who only spoke Spanish. I can ask simple questions like "How are you, how many kids do have?" but when they started speaking I couldn't understand and sadly I had to tell them that I didn't speak Spanish. I spent a lot of time yesterday, about three hours since we didn't have seminar. When I came, the residents were eating lunch. So I helped the nurses get the residents cleaned up. After that the activities director suggested that I take some residents outside on the patio, and we listened to music. One resident was so cute, he sang along to all the Elvis Presley songs and danced in his chair.
There is a pecan tree in the patio, so I served them pecans. I noticed many residents had very dry and flaky skin on the arms and legs. The aging skin is loses ability to retain moisture and results in dry thin skin. They also produce less collagen and keratin, which makes the skin easy to tear.
My cousin (the owners of the nursing home) also said are looking into opening an Alzheimer's unit, I'm really looking forward to that because there is so much research being done to study this disorder.
I took a picture of the calendar of events, unfortunately there are no activities planned for the time that I come, but the event coordinator said I can always read or just talk to the resident sort of what I did yesterday.
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