Goals and Benefits

For the resident

1. Positive mood
2. Social interactions
3. Memory of personal history and cultural, ethic, local ties

For the staff

1. Awareness of residents retained abilities to participate in large group.
2. Non-clinical staff, administrators, managers and other non-hands on employees, get to establish extra-role relationships in mutually enjoyable activity.
3. Sharing pleasurable experience in an atmosphere of mutually successful participation.