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Activities for Alzheimer's Patients
Keeping a person with Alzheimer's disease busy is key to having a good day. They like to feel useful and will actually do things that you would have never guessed. Here's a list of ideas -
- Taking a walk
- Playing cards
- Tossing a ball
- Sorting a deck of cards by color
- Doing a crossword puzzle or word search
- Clipping coupons
- Folding clothes
- Dusting, light housekeeping
- Drawing, coloring
- Dancing
- Listening to music music of the past or calming sounds
- Watch Animal Planet
- Talk about their former occupation or childhood
- Painting, including finger
- Pressing leaves or flowers
- String beads
- Create a collage
- Make a birdfeeder
- Modeling clay or play dough
- Gardening
- Bird or fish watching
- Polishing silver
- Sorting buttons
- Washing the car
- Shining shoes
- Making a bed
- Helping at meal time
- Reminiscing
- Looking at pictures
- Watching old movies
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