Making the Best out of the Worst – How to Bring out the Best in your Alzheimer’s Patient
Written by Virginia Bell, David Troxel, Tonya Cox and Robin Hamon, The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities offers a great new set of activities to bring out the best in a person affected by Alzheimer’s. More than 145 versatile, easy-to-implement activities can assist anyone to turn any interaction with a person with dementia into an activity that satisfies essential physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Each activity contains suggestions for personalizing the activity and matching it to the remaining strengths of your patient or loved one to ensure success and reduce challenging behaviors. Provides ideas on converting everyday activities into those with “knack,” create new activities out of old ones. Provide activities between structured programs and events. Adapts activities for you to participate in with your loved one affected by this terrible disease. Makes activities out of personal care and helps fill evening hours to alleviate sundowning. All are adult-oriented and flexible so you can add your own ideas. Volume Two expands and enriches the programming with 149 all-new activities. Like the first volume, fun and easy activities add meaning and enjoyment. Based on the feedback from the first volume, suggestions come from various programs and focus on diversity, multiculturalism and participants in their 50s and 60s. 224/248 pages, softcovers.
