On Wednesday, October 21 my group went to Shelburne bay for our Reminiscence Therapy session. Before the session we created a Facebook group message where we could bounce around ideas for the session and give each other feedback of those ideas. At first we thought we wanted to do a game that would have something to do with memory, but then we also tossed out the ideas of just sitting around and having a conversation about one topic, or doing an arts and crafts project. We ultimately decided on the game, because we thought that it could be fun and interactive, and there was less of a chance of having someone not be able to do it, because we knew that some of the residents might not have been able to hold the markers or be able to draw. After …show more content…
It was really funny because I went in to it with a vague idea of what questions to ask the adult, not one hundred percent sure because you never know where the conversation will lead, and I did not get to ask a single one of them. Instead the conversation just flowed. It was easy to talk to her, and after she finished chatting with us about technology we asked her about the pictures in her room, getting her to recall the memories, and we just sat and talked about her family and how she ended up coming to Vermont. All three of us sat on her couch and nodded along with her, engaging in the conversation, and the second that we got a question out to her, she would pop one right back to us. It didn’t feel like we were there talking to a patient or even there because we had to be, it just felt like a conversation with a friend almost. We would come up with connections, she happened to know a family from the town I grew up in whom I also knew, and we talked about how she knew them. She tried to make a connection with each of us, which was amazing. It didn’t feel like an interview at