Learning Center for Alzheimer's & Dementia: Dementia activity ideas

Many articles have been written over the years about choosing gifts for people with dementia. Most focus on “activities of daily living” ideas, such as adaptive clothing, large size clocks and the like. Choosing a meaningful and appropriate gift for someone with Alzheimer's or dementia is not easy. Learn how to do it.

Choosing an activity for a person with dementia is not easy. The activities not only have to be of interest to them, the person must also be able to do them successfully. Even though they may have had a hobby that they loved, just throwing them into the middle of it likely won't work. Learn how to do it in this article.

Most facilities have some type of form to collect information about the interests of each resident from family members, and we provide a form in our workshop materials (which you can download here). Learn how to use a person with dementia's past interests to engage them meaningfully in this article.

In our "The Box is Ticked" article, we talk about the importance of drawing on a dementia patients past interests to engage the person, even if they can no longer do the activity. Learn ways to capitalize on a person with dementia or Alzheimer's past interest in knitting in this dementia care article.

In our "The Box is Ticked" article, we talk about the importance of drawing on a person’s past interests to engage the person, even if they can no longer do the activity. Learn how to capitalize on a person with dementia's interest in gardening without actually picking up a shovel in this article.