Any tips on how to personalize a nursing home space?

Depending on the level of craftiness, liquid starch can be used to add a swatch of fabric to walls or to the doors of her "closet". The starch will dry clear and can be removed without damaging the item that is underneath.

When my mother was in the nursing home, I bought a blanket that fit over her narrow bed perfectly - it was a polyester/fleece with a big photo of a cat on it. (they had others, dogs, wolves, sports, but my mom always loved cats more than anything.) I wrote her name on the bottom in big letters with a magic marker so if it disappeared, no question of who it belonged to. (she had a lot of stuffed animals she loved, too - thought they were real, I think - but any that left the room tended to disappear, even if they were marked with her name, too.)...The blanket came from a drugstore, either Walgreens or Kinneys.

Don't know if would help but we have a battery operated Pete the repeat parrot. My alz hubby loves to talk to it & it repeats twice what he says. $20 Amazon. Idea was from Alz reading rm. You need to be about 18 in. From him.

My Mom is in a NH and has a roommate who was there first. The roommates family has overwhelmed the room with childish crap. There are 8 teddy bears, one of which is about 4 ft tall and sits in the only chair in the room. I have sparsly decorated her side of the room so the cleaning people have started putting some of the stuff from the roommate on her side of the room. Last time I was there you could no longer see Mom's pictures for all the dollar store junk on her chest of drawers. Make sure you respect boundaries.😃

Granjan, I would gather up all the crap in your mother's space and return it to roomie's side of the room. If you can't find anywhere to stuff it all then take a box. If you want to be really passive aggressive carry the box to lost and found - play innocent "I don't know where all this stuff is from, I hope you can find the proper place for it" lol.

Since mom can't see most of the changes I've made are really to help me and anyone else who comes to visit feel more comfortable (the institutional beige everywhere was just one straw too many for me) and also to let staff know that mom has someone who cares.

Some great ideas for decorating. Sorry to say you will be chasing clothes all over nursing home but we used permanent marker or printed iron/sew on labels to prove who items belong too. We also could show staff so hopefully it would improve but never did. Have fun decorating and goid luck with clothes.