Services

Sensory Outings Company Services:

  1. Memory Care Assisted Living Communities and Residential Home

  2. Family Home (1-on-1)

  3.  Tai Chi Classes

  4. Activities Consultant

  5. Activities Bags & Boxes

 

     

Some of our clients at assisted living communities.

 

Our Professionals

Sensory Outings Company professionals have 7+ years of experience and are trained by the highly regarded Alzheimer’s Association of Denver.  We use Validation Therapyand have to Teepa Snow’s seminars. Our staff will wear a mask, gloves, and use disinfectant before and after each activity.

Additionally, we follow the Montessori Method for dementia that includes:

  1. The activity should have a sense of purpose and capture the person’s interest.
  2. Offer choices wherever possible.
  3. Talk less. Demonstrate more.
  4. Use visual hints, cues or templates.
  5. Go from simple tasks to more complex ones.
  6. Focus on what the person can do with physical skills.
  7. Think engagement. There is no wrong or right.
  8. Foster a positive interaction.

 

Our professionals know that Alzheimer’s disease effects all five senses that include seeing or watching, listening, touching and feeling, tasting and smelling. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, listening is the least effected.  Sight is the first to be affected by the disease. The peripheral vision continues to narrow the field of view and spatial awareness becomes lost (Teepa Snow, 2016). Other senses such as touching and tasting will progressively become enhanced, and smells will progressively become odorless. These are key factors that play into how Sensory Outings professionals interact with people at various stages of Alzheimer’s and structure participation in our activities. For example, an early-stage Alzheimer’s participant would know what to do with a paintbrush and watercolors.  However,  a mid-stage Alzheimer’s participant may know what a paintbrush is but not see the paper to use it on, or possibly what do with it. Its our privilege to engage and promote enjoyment and participation while attentive to these individual factors.  Its our aim to serve early to late stage Alzheimer’s participants to their greatest capacity!

 

Brandy Hall: Castle Rock Parker-Lone Tree-Aurora area

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly Williamson : Tai Chi  and Activities Thornton-Lakewood Denver area

 

 

 

 

This video shows what Sensory Outings provides for a memory care communities.