General Activity Tips
- Modify activities as necessary based on the person’s abilities at that moment. Some fluctuation in skills is normal with various types of dementia, even from day to day or hour to hour!
- Use your common sense. If the individual tends to put non-food items in their mouth, sorting coins probably isn’t safe for them.
- Plan activities at the person’s “best” time of day.
- Initiation is one of the skills that can be lost very early in Lewy Body Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, etc, so a caregiver may need to help the person get started, or even help switch from one step to the next.
- Individualize activities to fit the person’s interest and skills.
- Activities are supposed to be fun, so stop/change strategies if anyone is getting frustrated and remember, the experience of doing the activity is more important than the end result.
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rita said
I recently brought a variety of fresh flowers for 7 ladies w/ various stages of dementia to arrange into bouquets. Some were more engaged than others, some liked the colors, some remembered receiving flowers when they were married.
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