Long-Term Care

Nursing home tackles Sunday boredom with fantasy football league

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, November 12, 2009

A Massachusetts skilled nursing facility is giving its residents a reason to cheer every Sunday afternoon. The Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Northbridge, MA started a fantasy football league this year as a way to extend creative programming, according to The Boston Globe.

About a dozen residents gather each week in the facility’s third-floor common room to watch the teams they selected in a preseason draft. The league serves as a social outlet for the residents, who saw their favorite activity – visits with children at Beaumont’s on-site daycare center – suspended due to the seasonal and H1N1 influenza viruses.

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