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Americare Adult Day Health Care
340 Rancheros Dr., 196, San Marcos, CA 92069

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Facility's Primary Function This facility provides restorative, therapeutic, social, and health services to people with physical or cognitive challenges. The objective is to prevent or delay institutionalization by offering stimulating and enjoyable recreational experiences.
Joy Receiver Traits Individuals reside in northern San Diego County.
Joy Receivers' Age No specific age requirements
Number of Joy Receivers Between 8 and 10
Joy Giver Schedule Tuesdays
10:30am–12:00 noon
Joy Giver Services Visualization, relaxation, and orientation to current events through music activities, followed by group percussion and rhythm, concluded with shared Receiver/Giver Qchord accompaniment to group singing of favorite “oldies."
Resounding Joy Results "Employees remark that group members who never before engaged in group activities—including one adult who has been visiting the facility for nearly three years—now participate in Resounding Joy music-making."—Jan Bluemer, Joy Giver

Birch Patrick Skilled Nursing Center
751 Medical Center Court, Chula Vista, CA 91911

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Facility's Primary Function Sharp HealthCare facilitates this skilled-nursing program to help patients retain their highest level of independence.

Joy Receiver Traits Patients here, many of whom are Spanish speakers, do not require hospitalization, but they do require a higher level of care than can be provided in their homes.
Joy Receivers' Age No specific age range, but frequently between 60 and 85
Number of Joy Receivers Approximately 20–25
Joy Giver Schedule Fourth Friday every month
10:00am–11:00am
Joy Giver Services Assist board-certifed music therapist and co-facilitate interventions through music-making, singing, and instrument playing. Joy Receivers gain cognitive stimulation and orientation, motor movement, improved quality of life, and relaxation.
Resounding Joy Results "This large group of Joy Receivers is eager to make music! Having a few Joy Givers there to help distribute instruments, lead singing, participate in hand-over-hand instrument playing, and share positive energy would be great!"—Noelle Pederson, MT-BC, Joy Giver Mentor

Encinitas Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
900 Santa Fe Dr., Encinitas, CA 92024-3919

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Facility's Primary Function This skilled-nursing facility provides health care and rehabilitation services.
Joy Receiver Traits Individuals staying here receive post-hospital care, care for Alzheimer's disease or dementia-related disorders, or transitional rehabilitation.
Joy Receivers' Age Age 65 and older
Number of Joy Receivers Between 12 and 15
Joy Giver Schedule First and third Wednesdays each month
10:30-11:30am
Joy Giver Services Dividing each group session into the following four percussion / rhythm segments offers all participants a wide variety of experiences and establishes session boundaries:

. Sharing—ice-breaker activities bring the group together by encouraging and building trust among the members. Gathered in a circle, Joy Receivers first perform visualization and deep-breathing exercises to relax and prepare for the session. Next, Joy Receivers share their memories by answering a question, such as “how did you celebrate a particular holiday or event when you were younger?”

. Community and Team Building—warm-up exercises promote upper- and lower-body flexibility. Joy Givers lead the group in musical egg shaking, singing, and call-and-response rhythm-making, to use Joy Receivers' names, familiar poetry, and rhymes.

. Skill Development—spontaneous rhythm and drumming exercises invite group participation and build percussive skills.

. Closure—giving each Joy Receiver an opportunity to strum the Qchord to his favorite song frames the group experience with a familiar final structured activity and allows the leader to say good-bye to the group members.

Resounding Joy Results “Supportive music activities interrupt isolation and boredom and replace loneliness with interpersonal communication and companionship among participants who might, otherwise, never know or become friends to one another.”—Jan Bluemer, Joy Giver

Redwood Elderlink . Adult Day Health Care
1151 S. Redwood St., Escondido, CA 92025

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Facility's Primary Function A comprehensive program for the aged that provides services to enhance the quality of life and extend care necessary to achieve and sustain optimum health and vitality. The recovery process includes treatment, while promoting integrity and independence through meaningful activity.
Joy Receiver Traits Individuals here may require nursing supervision, physical / occupational / speech therapies, ambulation assistance, and / or incontinence care.
Joy Receivers' Age Age 65 and older
Number of Joy Receivers 8
Joy Giver Schedule Second and fourth Tuesdays each month
11am-noon

Joy Giver Services

. Sharing—ice-breaker activities bring the group together.

. Community and Team Building—simple relaxation techniques facilitate a basic pulse throughout the Joy Receiver's whole body and basic rhythm warm-ups encourage trust among members.

. Skill Development—rhythm and drumming promotes group participation, and exercises enhance rhythmical response skills.

. Closure—a final structured activity frames the group experience, allowing the group leader to end the session and say good-bye to the Joy Receivers.

Resounding Joy Results “Joy Receivers with dementia have an opportunity to express their feelings and emotions through music. They may not remember a Joy Giver's name or realize the day of the week, but when Joy Givers enter the facility, Joy Receivers know it's time to have fun with music.”—Ann Hein, Joy Giver


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