Media for Seniors is a non-profit that offers activities specially selected for the elderly. It provides them to senior living facilities or home care by subscription. Our activities will help your residents live better, increase your move-ins, and greatly assist your activities department.
“Depression is prevalent in institutions that care for older, more dependent adults”
(Camacho-Conde et al, Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2020;49(1):107-120).
“Life review/reminiscence therapy are effective but too infrequently used with older adults”
(Fiske, et al, Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2009; 5: 363–389).
One of the great challenges of senior care is in dealing with the depression and anxiety experienced by the elderly who have been displaced from their homes and families. We need to care for their minds as well as their bodies. In recent years, the discipline of “reminiscence therapy” has become recognized in the health care industry as an important component in caring for these individuals. RT relieves anxiety and depression in the elderly and promotes a better quality of life. For those want more detail about the effectiveness of RT, please click HERE.
We are a non-profit founded to bring this philosophy to senior care communities. Our mission is to provide life enrichment activities that will stimulate your residents' minds to enhance their well-being. While short term memory fails relatively early in the elderly, long term memory is much more persistent. Many of our presentations are selected to take the viewer back to a better time for them - to a time with their families and their health. We are teaching them how to improve their outlook to make for a better life. We have also found that providing meaningful contemporary presentations, such as music, lectures on topics of general interest, travelogues, biographies and documentaries captures their interest and contributes to their well-being and self-esteem.
We have over 2,000 presentations already in inventory, and more are being added regularly. We select and curate our presentations intending to teach the elderly viewer the positive effect of reminiscence. These are old time movies, TV shows from the early days of television, popular music from their youth, old time comedy, orchestras and ensembles as well as more contemporary offerings which transport their minds. Also available every week are audiobooks and a weekly news summary.
We call our activities service “Now Showing”, although some have called us "Netflix for Seniors". It is available by subscription to senior living communities only. Programming is updated every week so there is always something new from which to select. We also include a schedule you can use for your activities calendar. Almost all communities are already equipped and experienced in displaying programming like ours (just like YouTube or Netflix) in group settings such as a media room, TV room, theater, or even to individual residents in their rooms. We assist subscribers with any technical issues.
The proper way to use Now Showing varies with the intended audience. For example, it may be used differently in ILs vs. SNFs. More impaired individuals with shorter attention spans will benefit by shorter display times. An advantage of Now Showing is that any presentation can be started and stopped at will. Showing a movie in 2 or 3 segments is easy to do. Less impaired individuals may want to watch a movie from start to finish.
You will decide the best way to use our service that best fits your resident schedules and needs. Since Now Showing activities are passive, we believe they should be used together with active activities such as physical (stretching, exercise, strength, flexibility), spiritual, and creative (painting, writing, singing, crafts). This enables your residents to have a balanced activities program every week. Take a look at a sample activities calendar HERE.
Individual can use our service with their phone, tablet, laptop or TV. For group presentations, it is very easy to cast our presentations to a larger TV or projector. We will assist in setup if necessary.
Above all else, our presentations are designed to help your residents to live a better life. We curate our presentations to emphasize nostalgia and reminiscence. When combined with physical, creative and spiritual activities, your residents receive a balanced activities package every week.
There are practical benefits as well. Placement agencies tell us that clients are more and more asking about activities as they make their community selection. Use our service to help encourage move-ins and increase your census. Make sure your sales and marketing team, as well as outside placement agencies know of your enhanced activities. Our service also simplifies planning by your activities personnel. They no longer will have the unending task of obtaining fresh activities, and they also have our monthly schedule to easily prepare their activities calendar.
Q. What type of company is Media for Seniors?
Q. Can you describe how your service works?
Q. How much programming do we get each week?
Q. Where do you get your programming and how do you choose what to offer?
Q. How often is programming changed?
Q. Do you restrict how we may display your programming?
A. You may show our programming as many times as you wish throughout the week. You may show it to large or small groups or to individuals. Our Presentations may be shown only to your residents and their guests. You may not charge a fee for displaying our programming, and you may not download, broadcast or make copies of them. Our programming may be displayed only at the location related to the subscription. Our Terms of Use can be viewed HERE.
Q. What is the price of your service?
Q. How are we billed?
Q. What are the equipment requirements? I’m not very good with computers.
Q. Why can’t our residents simply watch what they want over the cable channels?
Q. Why should we pay for this? Can't we do it ourselves?
We have over 2,000 Presentations ready for showing. More are always being added. Below is just a small partial list of performers and shows.