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Schervier Nursing Care CenterSchervier Nursing Care CenterBon Secours New York Health SystemBon Secours New York Health System
“There is still a person in there.”
MAGIC MOMENTSMAGIC MOMENTS
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Magic MomentsMagic Moments
04/10/23
Aileen Jones, Director of Volunteers,Schervier Nursing Care CenterBon Secours New York Health System
Charles Sourby, Special Projects Coordinator for Therapeutic Recreation, Schervier Nursing Care Center, Bon Secours New York Health System
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Bon Secours New York Health Care System, Inc.
Schervier Nursing Care Center
Burke at Schervier: Short Term Rehabilitation
Long Term Home Healthcare Program
Frances Schervier Apartments
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Magic MomentsMagic Moments
Innovative Program of The Year
2004
New York Association of Homes and Services for Aging
NYASHA
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Magic Moments: An IntroductionMagic Moments: An Introduction
There is something enchanting about the Magic Moment’s program.
Students with “special needs” are helping geriatric adults who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
This is a place where people with disabilities, both old and young, accept each other for who they are in a relaxed atmosphere without passing judgment.
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Key WordsKey Words
Breaking Down BarriersCollaborationCommunity ServiceDignityInterdisciplinary Team Work Outreach
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Magic Moments—Magic Moments—McSweeney School PartnershipMcSweeney School Partnership
A community partnership between the Home and the Steven McSweeney Occupational Training Center .
The McSweeney OTC , Public School 721X in N.Y., prepares educationally challenged teens with mild mental retardation for the world of work.
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The Magic BeginsThe Magic Begins
This special program began as a way for staff:
To improve the quality of life for residents with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
To provide developmentally disabled students with an opportunity to develop leadership skills and build self-confidence.
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The Magic The Magic
Students are trained to walk residents.
Students assigned to unit twice a week.
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The Magic BeginsThe Magic Begins
magic interaction between the residents and the students.
Students are helpers in the group
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The Magic BeginsThe Magic Begins
The students gently encouraged residents to participate fully in activities.
The students’ enthusiasm helped the residents become excited and more involved in each session.
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The Magic BeginsThe Magic Begins
Residents responded to the loving touch of these young people.
The students gained more confidence when working with seniors.
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InspirationInspiration
In the meantime, members of the Nursing Staff’s Lounge Interaction Committee went on a day trip to another long term care facility.
Members came back inspired to enhance services for the Alzheimer’s unit.
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InspirationInspiration
The Nursing Department contacted Therapeutic Recreation about developing a special program for residents with Alzheimer’s type dementia.
The new program would move the residents from their unit to the Community Hall and provide a greater variety of activities.
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InspirationInspiration
The program was designed to foster appropriate social functioning of residents with Alzheimer’s type disease.
Program stations would be set up in the Community Hall.
Nursing staff and recreation staff would be assigned to facilitate the process.
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InspirationInspiration
To further enhance the initiative, students who had participated in the original unit program were integrated into the new program.
Additional students were rotated into what now had become the Magic Moments program.
The program includes five to eight students who assist recreation therapists and nursing staff twice weekly.
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The ProcessThe Process
The students’ role in the program includes setting up the room with games such as adaptive bowling, beanbag toss and art.
The students model their interactions after the adults. Working as a team with the recreation and nursing staff, students co-lead activities, encourage residents to participate and serve refreshments.
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The ProcessThe Process
During each session, students help residents paint pictures, lead exercises or sit down for quiet, one-to-one conversations.
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Activities that Promote the MagicActivities that Promote the Magic
• Art –creative expression, sense of Art –creative expression, sense of accomplishment, reduces anxiety and accomplishment, reduces anxiety and disruptive behaviordisruptive behavior
• Music-tranquility, elevates mood, Music-tranquility, elevates mood, feelings of well being, relieves painfeelings of well being, relieves pain
• Active games-reduce anxiety, Active games-reduce anxiety, promotepromote socializationsocialization
• All these activities promote All these activities promote autonomy.autonomy.
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Activities that Promote the MagicActivities that Promote the Magic
Moving the program from the unit to the Community Hall opened up the program and allowed nursing staff, recreation staff and the students to work together as a team in an open area where there are enough “eyes ” to allow for a wide range of resident activities.
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InnovationInnovation
The Magic Moments program is original in that it blends two groups of people who are often marginalized or “invisible”.
Special needs young adults and elderly people with mid-to-end stage Alzheimer’s-type disease.
The Home took a bold step in bringing these two groups together and, in effect, putting them in the spotlight.
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Benefits of Working with Benefits of Working with Developmentally Disabled StudentsDevelopmentally Disabled Students
• Developmentally disabled students integrated into Magic Moments as leaders
• Non-judgmental reassurance for residents
• Re-channels problem behaviors into socially acceptable directions
• Students offer praise & humor
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Positive OutcomesPositive Outcomes
The Magic Moments program is an inspiration to everyone at the Home.
McSweeney staff who have visited Magic Moments have commented on the growth of the students.
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Positive Outcomes For ResidentsPositive Outcomes For Residents
Clinical staff has observed a decrease in agitation and wandering, and an increase in attention span and sensory-motor function.
With the change in environment, residents are more interactive and have a decreased level of anxiety.
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SummarySummary
Magic Moments promotes and defends the dignity of residents and students.
Residents are receiving individual and personal attention.
The students are learning and growing in a supportive, structured environment.
Staff creativity is enhanced. Fosters interaction with other
departments.
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Afterthought:Afterthought:
Gleeful laughter is often heard during the program. This laughter permeates the building and it is surely a sign of a successful program.
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CreditsCredits
Written by:
Aileen Jones
Charles Sourby
