I work in a nursing home as well and sometimes this is the best medicine lol. Once worked somewhere that had a retired postman who thought he was still working. We let him deliver the resident mail every day and it made him pretty damn happy (with staff following and helping of course)
This one is awesome because he's actually doing something. The fake business desk above made me sad cause the guy is confused about other people not working.
Co-worker had a patient that loved to tip staff. He had dementia and a relative brought in some coins he had collected over the years that were not too valuable. He started tipping housekeeping, the dietary aides and even some of the doctors. Everyone at first gave the nursing staff back all the coins. They took them away from him at first but then they just let him have the coins back so he could tip people every day and the coins would be counted every night then put back on his dresser so the process could go on. The guy loved it.
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u/lillithfair4 28d ago
I work in a nursing home as well and sometimes this is the best medicine lol. Once worked somewhere that had a retired postman who thought he was still working. We let him deliver the resident mail every day and it made him pretty damn happy (with staff following and helping of course)