Things To Do Together, CareGivers In-home Activities

29.12.12

Memory Activities | Jigsaw Puzzles Elderly | Alzheimer’s Dementia | Autism

Memory Activities | Jigsaw Puzzles Elderly | Alzheimer’s Dementia | Autism: Wooden Puzzles for Seniors

Memory Jogging Puzzles
Benefits:
• Dementia Jigsaw Puzzles
• Storytelling themes
• Memory Puzzle
• 1/4″ thick
• durable
• light weight
• unique shapes
• large pieces
• lap size
• easy handling
• great for arthritis
• 6 piece Memory Puzzle
• 12 piece Memory Puzzle
• 20 piece Memory Puzzle
• Made in America
• All images ©SEPS
Best Benefit: These puzzles for elderly and seniors will give
you the power to engage
with your loved one in
their world… Priceless!

12.7.12

Activity or 'Doing Things' with Dementia | Activity is “doing things”

MindStart | Dementia Activities | Alzheimer Activities: Activities with Dementia
Activity or 'Doing Things' with Dementia
Activity is “doing things”. Not just leisure pursuits, but everything you do in your daily routine. It is influenced by the responsibilities you have, roles in life that you carry, interests that you enjoy, people you encounter, and your abilities. People living with Alzheimer's, or other forms of dementia, have difficulty initiating and completing daily activities due to brain changes in the different stages of dementia. Brain changes may include short-term memory loss, difficulty knowing the steps to take and in what order, difficulty solving problems, and more. Despite these challenges, people with dementia continue to have the need to participate in activities...to do things...just in a manner that is appropriately simplified and supported by caregivers.

1.12.11

Painting watercolors crayons

Find the inner artist.
Paint with watercolors, draw with crayons. People with Alzheimer's may not judge themselves as harshly as they once did, so they may finally free their inner artists.

13.8.11

Misc Activities | Simplify old hobbies

Simplify old hobbies.
For those who liked to knit, try a simpler pattern. If they enjoy crossword puzzles, try a jigsaw puzzle with large pieces.

8.6.11

Origami Treats Basket

Origami Treats Basket - Part 1/2 | Origami Kids Blog

This Origami Treats Basket is an excellent complement for you Halloween decoration or even as a little gifty. This model require 2 videos to be folded, so look for the post: "Origami Treats Basket

31.5.11

Pogo.com, a great place to play free online games

Play FREE online games! Pogo.com, a great place to play free online games, including puzzle games, word games, card games, and board games. Unlike other free online games sites, they offer a variety of classic Hasbro board games like RISK, Yahtzee, Scrabble, and Monopoly. They also have popular games like Chess, Spider Solitaire, Cribbage, and Bejeweled. Make friends, play free online games and enter to win prizes at Pogo.com!

9.2.11

no need to buy wooden puzzles. You can create high-quality wooden ones

How to Make Wooden Puzzles: Scroll Saw Instructions and Tips - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

If you have a scroll saw, there’s no need to buy wooden puzzles. You can create high-quality wooden puzzles of all types and sizes. Sand and paint the puzzles, and you’ve created eye-catching sturdy wooden toys that can be passed down from generation to generation.

The possibilities for making wooden puzzles are only limited by your imagination.

How to Make a Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle

Conrad Armstrong's
Artistic Wooden
Jigsaw Puzzles

MARBLES the Brain store | Games and Puzzles

Marbles: The Brain Store - Memory Games, Puzzles, Software & Books » Marbles - The Brain Store
Wonderful collection of evaluated Games and Puzzles
Did you know that working memory is also the basis for intellect?
Build memory skills (and intellectual clout) with games, software, books

I received a nice note from Ryan Jedlicka, eCommerce Manager {2.11.2011}

We have a general list of products that would apply to all stages of Alzheimers here: http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products?conditions=155

When you look at that list, you can filter using the column on the left to sort by number or players.

For easy, non-frustrating activities, I would recommend these:

We have a general list of products that would apply to all stages of Alzheimers here: http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products?conditions=155
When you look at that list, you can filter using the column on the left to sort by number or players.

For easy, non-frustrating activities, I would recommend these:
Brain Noodles (solo, just for fun): http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/brain-noodles

Mind Putty (solo, just for fun): http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products/mind-putty-evolution-blue

Sherlock Memory Game (one or more players): http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products/sherlock-deluxe-memory-game

Izzi (solo, puzzle:) http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/izzi

I hope this list helps. Explore the site and feel free to ask any specific product questions that you might have.

Ryan Jedlicka, eCommerce Manager

Marbles: The Brain Store

877.527.2460

www.marblesthebrainstore.com

7.2.11

mind-start.com | dementia activities | cognitive activities

An interesting source of:

"* Activities that alleviate boredom, provide cognitive stimulation, and offer support for caregivers.

* Activities that work for persons at various levels of memory loss

* No preparation time required and easy to follow user guides

* Dignified, adult appearance

* Themes that spark memories

'Doing' things is human nature, gives meaning to our lives, and is an important factor in well-being. This holds true for persons with dementia."

Golf Games | Play Fun Free Online Golf Games

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NOTICE!!added a bunch of new free golf games, including the challenging World Golf Tour & Pangya Golf. Don’t worry if you can’t make it out to the course to get a golf game, we’ve got you covered with more online golf games than any other site on the web."

Pogo.com - The Ultimate Online Gaming Experience!

Pogo.com - The Ultimate Online Gaming Experience!: "Play FREE online games! Welcome to Pogo.com, a great place to play free online games, including puzzle games, word games, card games, and board games. Unlike other free online games sites, we offer a variety of classic Hasbro board games like RISK, Yahtzee, Scrabble, and Monopoly. We also have popular games like Chess, Spider Solitaire, Cribbage, and Bejeweled. Make friends, play free online games and enter to win prizes at Pogo.com!"

3.2.11

Make Your Own Puzzles

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1.2.11

Set the person to work stringing garlands.
All you need is a long heavy thread and a darning needle. Try stringing cranberries, popcorn, even O-shaped cereal (Fruit Loops are cheerfully colorful).

Carer's Activities | Walking | Wendy's Blog

Walking Blog with Wendy Bumgardner
Walking Helps Aging Brains: needed for walking helped keep the brain better organized.

bingo, finger painting, marbles

using a plastic ice cream scoop to remove painted golf balls from a bowl and place them into the color-matched wells of a muffin tin

the memory skills of the game Concentration with boards like those used in a game of bingo

Finger painting, playing marbles

play dough, reciting rhymes, rolling yarn,

Model with play dough

Recite nursery rhymes

Roll yarn into a ball

Busy hands, dolls, buttons, zippers, teddy bears,

Give her dolls with zippers and buttons to play with or soft teddy bears, textured cloth, or fur to stroke.

indoor horsehoes,tops, jacks,dominoes

Play horseshoes

Play with tops or jacks

Play dominoes

fish tanks, bird feeeders, house plants

A fish tank or a window in front of a bird feeder may interest someone for hours.

Plant seeds indoors or outdoors

Activities Games | Memory Jogging Puzzles | Carcassonne | Guess Who?

Memory Jogging Puzzles
encourage problem solving, like word search, sudoku and crosswords.

board game named "Carcassonne,

Guess Who?
a two-player guessing game created by Ora and Theo Coster, also known as Theora Design

Caregiver.com; Recipes , BookClub , Stories

Caregiver.com; Resources

Sharing Wisdom: Caregivers Ideas ,Careverse ,Caregiver Interviews,Caregiver Carenotes ,Caregiving Articles ,Caregiver Support Groups ,Caregiver Recipes ,Caregiver BookClub ,Caregiver Stories

reading maps, identifying places cities

Look at a map of the United States and identify states and capitals

work with a screwdriver,
concentrating on driving screws into four holes that have been drilled in a smooth piece of wood

Sadie
places pegs of graduated sizes into their respective holes in a long wooden block.

putting together simple two-piece puzzles made from magazine photos
that have been cut out and laminated

homemade bread

Bake homemade bread

Activities Games | Ghosts, Isola

Ghosts (Finnish: Kummituspeli, Swedish: Spökspelet)
is a board game designed by Alex Randolph for two players, released in 1982 by Milton Bradley.

Isola is a two-player abstract strategy board game.
It is played on a 6x8 board

connect with old friends from service days

About Us - Military.com: "About Us

They started Military.com in 1999 to revolutionize the way the 30 million Americans with military affinity stay connected and informed. Today, we're the largest military and veteran membership organization — 10 million members strong.

Military.com's free membership connects servicemembers, military families and veterans to all the benefits of service — government benefits, scholarships, discounts, lifelong friends, mentors, great stories of military life or missions, and much more.

We believe that the benefits earned in the service should be easier to access and written in plain English. We're passionate about helping members make the most of military experience throughout life."

Dollhouse miniatures, furniture, accessories, dolls, dollhouse kits.

29.1.11

reconnecting with friends by telephone, home dinners

reconnecting with friends they haven’t had much time for in the past.
get together for weekly dinners or card games, monthly heater dates or classes. Old friends are great to reminisce with, but new friends offer an uncharted horizon full of possibilities.

Touch base by email with old friends

E-MAIL Emailing friends and relatives you haven’t been in touch with

E-MAIL Emailing friends and relatives you haven’t been in touch with

101 activities from ALZ Org, inclkuding popping popcorn

Pop popcorn

101_activities

writing, poems,

Write a poem together

Finish famous sayings

Write a letter to a friend or family member

Writing family story, book of memories

Write down family stories.
Keep a book of the memories your loved one has related, and ask her to read it to the grandchildren.

playing musical instruments, talking about pets, reading aloud

Play a musical instrument

Ask the person about his or her favorite pet

Read aloud and use visual aids
such as memory poems, family pictures, or stories about "the days gone by" stimulate reminiscences. Ideas include Chicken Soup for the Soul series and Yesterdays by NaDezan, and other short stories

sorting small, colorful pom-poms and placing them into the painted compartments of an ice-cube tray that match them

24.1.11

Activities Games | ring toss, Checkers

a board with three pegs on it, and three rope circles, and its a homemade toss game

Chinese checkers
(alternative spelling Chinese chequers) is a board game that can be played by two

Activities Games | Battleship, Pente,

The game Battleship (also known as Battleships) is a guessing game played by two people. It is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game

two-person game is Pente.

Activities Games| Lost Cities (easy game), Goofy Games

Lost Cities (short, easy game)

goofy "kid games" like Jenga and Don't Spill the Beans can be fun

Activities Games | cribbage, backgammon,

cribbage and backgammon.

Activities Games | Bananagrams, Monopoly Junior

Bananagrams Bananagrams, the 2009 Game of the Year,

Monopoly Junior Games for children should be short in duration to fit their attention spans,

Activities Games | Slap Jack, Slamwich

Slamwich A variation of the classic game Slap Jack, Slamwich is played with a deck of cards shaped like slices of bread. Each card depicts a sandwich ingredient. After the cards are dealt, players take turns putting one of their cards face up on a center stack. If the same ingredient is turned up twice in a row, or with only one other card between them, the first player to slam the deck wins the whole pile. Cards depicting a thief require that you slap the deck while yelling, "Stop, thief!"

Activities Games | Snap, Old Maid

Snap For 2 to 12 players. Snap is a matching game, often played with custom decks specifically designed for the game. These rules are for playing Snap with a standard deck of cards.

Old Maid For 3 to 8 players. Old Maid is part of a family of card games known as "scapegoat" games. In scapegoat games, the goal is to avoid having a particular card or cards.

Activities Games | "Guess Who?" for two players

"Guess Who?" is a game for two players

Activities Games' | Spoons, Go Fish

Spoons For 3 to 13 players. Spoons is a clever card game that can be played by children and adults together. This card game also goes by the names Pig and Tongue, and spoons are not necessary to play those versions of the game.

Go Fish For 2 players. Go Fish is a set collection game in which players try to gather sets of four cards of the same rank by asking other players for cards they might have.

Craft Activities | Book Making

Book Making
go through different magazines and look for a specific item. Examples: birds,ladies,babies, cats, dogs, food, cars etc. then cut the items out and make "books".

Craft Activities | Making a Folded Box for Stamping Projects

Making a Folded Box for Stamping Projects

23.1.11

Craft Activities | handmade paper

As handmade paper
is typically more expensive than other craft papers an economical way to use it is just as a feature on a project, adding decoration and texture rather than using it to make an entire project.

22.1.11

Activities Misc. | Tangles

Tangle Therapy
sized to fit in the palm and is designed to provide a one of a kind feel and action. Manipulating the Tangle relieves minor stress, improves range of hand motion, restores motion of joints, improves muscle performance, strengthens finger muscles, rehabilitates hand muscles and joints. Tangle®Therapy is appropriate for people in all stages

Plant and Flowers Activities | Arrange fresh flowers

Arrange fresh flowers

Misc. Activities |Taking a Car ride

taking a drive

BedCaddie from agingcare.com

Bedcaddie | Product Review
The Bedcaddie offers a helping hand to aging relatives while in a
sitting position in bed. It is perfect for seniors who need a boost to
get out of bed safely

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Facebook and Skype combine forces

Facebook (3) | The Facebook Blog: "Skype version 5.0 for Windows and sign in with Facebook, you can easily call or SMS your friends. You also can check out your News Feed, update your status, and like and comment on posts directly within Skype.

21.1.11

Cooking Activities | Make Cookies

Make cookies.
Make Someone famous for cookies may miss the kitchen activity.

Carer's Activities | Make pomanders

Make pomanders. Clove-studded oranges
to hang or display in a bowl

Craft Activities \ Trace and cut out autumn leaves,

Trace and cut out autumn leaves

Craft Activities | Make paper butterflies

Make paper butterflies

20.1.11

Activities Play Things | Toys acceptable to client

Toys for Alzheimer's patients should be considered as a part of a complete care program unless they are objected to by the patient herself.

19.1.11

Activity Cooking | baking cookies

baking cookies,

18.1.11

Activity ]for Cares | doing housework with client

doing housework

15.1.11

Craft Activities | Paper Flowers

Paper Flowers paper flowers are fun to make and can be customized with rubber stamps.

In home activty | singing

singing

In home Craft Activity for Carers | carve" a magnetic pumpkin, for your fridge

carve" a magnetic pumpkin, who happily haunts your fridge.
The removable features make face-lifts easy.

In Home Carer Activity | listening to music,

listening to music,

Activity for Carers | watching movies together

watching movies

Activity for Carers | looking at pictures or magazines

looking at pictures or magazines

Activiity for Carers | Pop Popcorn In A Pan

Pop Popcorn In A Pan

14.1.11

Acivity for Carers | dancing

dancing

2.1.11

Carer's activities | Participate at Local Senior Centers

Participate in Activities at Local Senior Centers
senior centers and adult day care is becoming increasingly more common. This is a good opportunity for both of you. For your patient, he can take part in planned activities and interact with others his age. For you, it can give you a break and some free time. There is so much that an Alzheimer's patient can do.

17.8.10

World Golf Tour realistic golf game on the web, Free Online Golf Game

World Golf Tour | Free Online Golf Game | About WGT

World Golf Tour is the most realistic golf game on the web. WGT recreates famous golf courses including Bethpage, Kiawah Island and St Andrews in virtual reality using HD photography and patented technology. Each course is photographed from every angle, providing a true-to-life experience for golf enthusiasts. WGT is played using a web browser without any downloads or fees at www.WGT.com, on Facebook, or in the Google Chrome Web Store. Players can choose to purchase WGT credits to upgrade their virtual golf equipment, compete against each other, and enter tournaments to earn prizes such as real world golf trips. Virtual golf equipment is available from WGT sponsors, including GolfSmith, LoudMouth, PING, and TaylorMade. WGT is the official online gaming partner of the USGA, R&A and LPGA and hosts virtual championships of many major golf tournaments. More at www.WGT.com.

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