The large veterans care facilities across the country, like Parkwood, and there are 12 or 14 of them, are extremely well equipped. They have all sorts of activity options. Parkwood, for example, has a woodworking studio, a clay studio, a textile studio, bowling alley, pub, and a putting green. There are lots of leisure and recreation activities. It's viewed as “This is your life. You live here.”
Your quality of life is important. You need to have recreational activities that are appealing to you, so that means a range of activities, and you need to have an opportunity, if you so choose, to be involved in things that are more work-like, such as building things, being involved with the intergenerational programming and so on.
The concept that residential care facilities need to be communities in which there is a range of activities people can engage in so they experience both pleasure and meaning as they live out the end of their lives is well accepted in the gerontological literature and well studied in terms of how important that is for people's well-being and health. Does it always get into practice? Not always. Not everywhere.