Whether your loved one is
in assisted living or a nursing home, one quick and effective way to
cheer up the room is to add color to the walls by stapling pictures from
calendars to the sheet rock walls. [Note: hold the stapler at an angle
so that the staple goes in at an angle so that one end sticks up well
above the wall surface. This makes removing the staples easy. And your
pictures don't get tattered so that you can reuse them.]
I
ordered calendars to supplement the free calendars I already had on
hand. I only used the pictures that were the most colorful and cheery.
Mountains, waterfalls, flowers, sunsets, etcetera was what my mom enjoys
the most. Use what suits the personality of your loved one the most.
I tend to overlap the sheets very slightly to create a collage effect; but, sometimes keeping the pictures
separated is better. It depends on your personal taste.