Skilled Nursing Facility: Deck of Playing Cards
Card Uses for Adults:
1. Target Attention
-Sorting or matching by color, number or suit.
2. Memory
-With cards facing down, have patient turn two cards over and then face down again Have the patient then find the same two cards again.
-For delayed recall, have the patient name the two cards they turned over after answering an unrelated question or participating in a small activity.
3. Left Neglect
-Lining up cards in a line and having identify or sort them to encourage scanning.
4. Executive Function
Card games: require memory, strategy and attentiveness
-Old Maid
-Gin Rummy
-Go Fish!
-Bridge