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'Global Running Day' 🏃♂️ 1st June & 'World Bicycle Day' 🚲 3rd June
On ‘Global Running Day’ 🏃♂️ on 1st June discuss members' experience of running ... Did they run in school or play sports? Did anyone...
Simon O'Donovan
Jun 3, 20246 min read


🧐 Who said it?
This Dementia Cafe quiz focuses on noteable sayings by famous people. The idea is to read out each saying and show each picture and ask...
Simon O'Donovan
May 31, 20242 min read


☕️ Dementia Cafe Quiz 🌞 Days Of The Week
I really hope you like this Dementia Cafe Quiz. Please do let me know in comments. If you like and use my work, please consider buying me...
Simon O'Donovan
May 26, 20244 min read


☕️ Dementia Cafe 🪪 Real Names Quiz
This short Dementia Cafe quiz looks at celebrities real or birth names and preferred names. The idea in the first round is simply for...
Simon O'Donovan
May 22, 20242 min read


World Bee Day 🐝 20 May & National Learn About Butterflies Day 🦋 14 March
Some idioms (well known sayings) An outstanding person or thing = The bees KNEES Extremely busy and active person, doing many things...
Simon O'Donovan
May 21, 20243 min read


Name That Tune 🌞 Summer Songs
This CST activities page focuses on musical memory and enjoyment. The idea is to print off screenshots of the images for the tables and...
Simon O'Donovan
May 16, 20245 min read


🏠 International Day Of The Family 15 May
The theme of this year's United Nations 'International Day Of The Family' is "Families And Climate Change". Climate change negatively...
Simon O'Donovan
May 14, 20249 min read


'Eurovision Song Contest' 🇪🇺 Malmo 11th May
A Cognitive Stimulation Therapy activities page to help celebrate the 'Eurovision Song Contest'
Simon O'Donovan
May 9, 20248 min read


Things We Used To Say 🥹
This is a discussion based activity, just for fun. The idea is to show each picture and guess what mum is saying or would say. Followed...
Simon O'Donovan
May 7, 20241 min read


🚶♂️ May Is 'National Walking Month'
We started our session by remembering that May is 'National Walking Month'. We asked members who likes to go for a walk or take a hike?...
Simon O'Donovan
May 3, 20247 min read


Best Game Ever 🧩🎲🎳
This is a discussion based activity, aimed at finding the best game we ever played. The idea is to print off picture handouts of the...
Simon O'Donovan
May 1, 20242 min read


'National Superhero Day' 🦸♂️ 28th April
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Christopher Reeve...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 26, 202411 min read


Robots 🤖 & Computers 🖥️
This is mainly a discussion based CST activities page, with some entertainment and quiz aspects included to make it more interactive....
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 23, 20245 min read


'National Piñata Day' 🇲🇽 18th April
'National Piñata Day' is observed on 18th April each year. No one on this planet doesn’t love candy. You don’t have to stop at just one...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 19, 20246 min read


World Circus Day 16th April 🤡 "The Greatest Show Of All"
This CST activities page celebrates 'World Circus Day', which is on 16th April each year. Essentially it is a reminiscence based music...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 15, 20244 min read


Dementia Cafe ☕️ Voiceovers Quiz
This short dementia friendly quiz aims to celebrate the place of VoiceOvers in our TV and movies. Have you ever watched an animated...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 12, 20242 min read


International Day Of Human Space Flight 🚀 12th April
NB. The video 'Le Voyage Dans la Lun' ('A Trip to the Moon') by Georges Méliès (1902) is linked here, if you have enough time to play it....
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 11, 20246 min read


💫 The Sky At Night 🌗
"When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 11, 20246 min read


'World Health Day' 🌈 7th April
"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means." "The NHS will...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 7, 20249 min read


Quarterly Report - 1st January - 31st March 2024
Here is a quick update for the first quarter of 2024, that is 1st January - 31st March, for 'Simon's Dementia Cognitive Stimulation...
Simon O'Donovan
Apr 7, 20243 min read
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