At The Alzheimer's Store, we are constantly looking for new games for Alzheimer's and dementia patients. If you know of any you would like to suggest, please contact us. Games for dementia that we like best include hand eye coordination, aerobics and mental stimulation. All three of these components can be found in the Thumball Games.
The Alzstore offers a wide variety of games for dementia patients :senior memory games. By playing the right senior memory games , Alzheimer's and other dementia sufferers will enjoy hours of fun and healthy mental and tactile stimulation. Another benefit of games like these is that they are not only suitable for dementia patients, but for their family and loved ones as well.
Designed for everyone's enjoyment, these imaginative games are the perfect way to gather together for quality time. Large and easy to assemble puzzle pieces! Easy to assemble puzzles with handy tray! Five wooden fidget toys keep hands busy! Read out loud to the patient - your voice and the cadence of the words are likely to be familiar and soothing to them. Other Creative Activities - Activating the centers in the brain associated with creativity has long proven beneficial in keeping the mind and brain healthy and young.
These activities can include making Valentine's, Christmas or birthday cards together for family and friends remember to cut, paste, paint, and draw with all sorts of creative mediums ; making a large Family Tree with drawings, graphs and pictures; cooking a favorite recipe or stringing beads together to make birthday and Christmas presents. You could also knit or crochet together. Ask your patient to show you how to make or do something. Create a Memory Book using old photos, cuttings from newspapers and magazines, and the drawings of children or grandchildren.
Other ideas are to create a Vision Board of activities you'd like to enjoy together in the days to come; to sort objects by shape or color; to do some scrapbooking, etc.
Conversation - Simply engaging a patient in a conversation about their life will engage the mind and brain positively. Plan a half-an-hour or so a day when you guide them to talk constructively about any topic about their lives. If you're a family member, reminisce together about favorite holidays, the kids' antics when they were young, your funny family scandals, your wedding day, buying your first house together, etc.
Take their hand or sit close to them on the couch while you chat - physical contact is so important for the release of endorphins and other important feel-good hormones. You can even go as far as recording these conversations for the family and friends and compiling a precious database of unforgettable moments. They will also serve to remind the family of the Alzheimer patient's humanity and ability to be happy, which can be very healing for everyone.
Helping Around TheHouse - Alzheimer's patients, especially the older ones, often feel useless and redundant. To combat this, be sure to engage them in activities around the house such as washing the windows together, polishing the silverware, sorting the washing, baking cupcakes or bread together, making sandwiches, arranging fresh flowers together, sorting towels, sorting that messy cupboard in the kitchen, and so forth.
Have Fun - Laughter is one of the most healing activities anyone can engage in. Even just smiling activates the pleasure centers in the brain, and laughter therapy is a thing. Engage in playful, childlike activities like blowing bubbles, playing with well-behaved dogs, telling each other jokes, reading jokes from the internet, watching a comedy, dancing alone or together, tossing a ball, writing funny poems or limericks, writing a funny letter to the family about your day and posting it on Facebook, singing old songs and allowing your inner Charlie Chaplin to make its appearance - in short, find ways to practice your happy muscles and engage your Alzheimer's patient, friend or family member.
You may find your own life transformed! Exercise - Exercise is such a well-documented and proven brain enhancing activity, that not much explanation is needed. Daily exercise and movement are paramount to keep the patient not only in good physical health but to stimulate the brain. Depending on the patient's age and physical health, the program should ideally include aerobic exercises such as walking, swimming or jogging; strength training using elastic bands Therabands and flexibility training such as stretching all the muscle groups.
Make it pleasurable by going for walks in the garden or the park, splashing or swimming in the pool or shallow waves on the beach, climbing a hill, taking the dog for a brisk walk, dancing together or freestyle to your patient's favorite beats, jumping or lightly bouncing on a good quality rebounder this the patient can do alone, or you can have fun together on a large rebounder , and much more.
Games should be challenging but not so difficult that they are frustrating. Add sensory stimulus, a strong social aspect, and some light exercise and you have a perfect game for people with dementia.
Our large selection of games have been chosen because they provide an appropriate challenge for people with memory or cognitive challenges without being too difficult. Fitness games improve strength, balance, and dexterity; also important for health and safety. Manipulation of game pieces help the hands and arms stay limber and strong. The therapy program included walking, along with strength, balance and flexibility training. The control group received normal care. This study, which took place in Toulouse , France was lead by Dr.
This study, which had participants whose average age was 83, showed that individuals in the exercise group improved their activities of daily living scores significantly. Average walking speeds improved significantly in the exercise group also. Posted by Mershon W. Labels: Alzheimer's , anxiety , Baseball , Bowling , elderly , geriatrics , golf , reminiscing , Tennis , Wiihab. Newer Post Older Post Home.
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