The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Activities

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Bring out the best in each person with dementia with these versatile, easy-to-implement Best Friends™ activities. A best friend knows your habits, what you like to do, and what makes you feel good. The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer’s Activities uses these qualities to insure that activities for people in the middle and later stages of dementia remain easy, natural, successful and enjoyable. With the ideas and suggestions found in this book, staff can turn the simplest interaction with a person with dementia into an activity that helps satisfy physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Authors: Virginia Bell, David Troxel (224 pp)

The activities are interesting, productive and easy to accomplish. For example, on page 67: Painting with Marbles – You’ll need box large enough to accommodate a piece of paper (8-1/2" x 11"), paint and a few marbles. Tape down the paper, then using a plastic spoon, dip a marble in one color of tempera paint. Place it in the box and roll it around on the paper. Repeat with multiple colors to create an intersting piece of art. "Did you ever play marbles as a child?" For those in the later stages of dementia, help can be received, making this a group activity. Feel the hard, round marble, look at the swirling patterns formed by the rolling marble. "Ever hear of a cats-eye marble?"

Other activities include making paper, poetry writing, group discussions on topics such as camping, weddings, etc. Each activity is accompanied with ideas involving life stories, creativity, humor, stage specific adaptations, and conversations. It’s not your typical list of Alzheimer’s activities.

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