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| 100 Things to Do With The Person Who Has
Alzheimer's Disease From the Alzheimer's Association: -
Sort poker chips -
Rake leaves - Roll yarn into a ball
- Clean out a pumpkin
- Reminisce about a favorite summer
- Make a brithday cake
Bake cookies - Use the carpet sweeper
- Read out loud
- Count tickets
- Look up names in the phone book
- Read the daily paper out loud
- Ask a friend, neighbor, church acquaintance who has a baby or young child to visit
- Listen to polka music
- Plant seeds indoors or out
- Look at family photographs
- Toss a ball
- Color pictures
- Make homemade lemonade
- Wipe off the table
- Weed the flower bed
- Make cream cheese mints (2 lbs powdered sugar, 8 ozs cream cheese, 2 drops peppermint extract, food coloring as desired, knead together and press into mint molds.)
- Have a spelling bee
- Read aloud from the Reader's Digest
- Fold clothes
- Have a neighbor or friend who has a calm pet visit
- Cut pictures out of greeting cards
- Wash silverware
- Bake homemade bread
- Sort objects such as beads by shape or color
- Sing Christmas carols
- Say "tell me more" when they start talking about a memory
- Put silverware away
- Make a Valentine collage
- Play favorite songs & sing together
- Take a ride
- Make a cherry pie
- Read aloud from labels
- Dye Easter eggs
- Make a basket of socks
- Take a walk
- Reminisce about the 1st day of school
- String Cheerios to hang outside for the birds
- Make a fresh fruit salad
- Sweep the patio
- Color paper shamrocks green
- Fold towels
- Have afternoon tea
- Remember great inventions
- Play Pictionary
- Paint a sheet
- Cut out paper dolls
- Identify states and capitols
- Make a family tree poster
- Color a picture of our flag
- Cook hot dogs outside
- Grow magic rocks
- Water house plants
- Reminisce about the first kiss
- Play horseshoes
- Dance
- Sing favorite hymns
- Make homemade ice cream
- Force bulbs for winter blooming
- Make christmas cards
- Sort playing cards by their color
- Write a letter to a family member
- Dress in red on a football Saturday
- Pop popcorn
- Name the presidents
- Give a manicure
- Make paper butterflies
- Plant a tree
- Make a May basket
- Make homemade applesauce
- Finish famous sayings
- Feed the ducks
- Mold with Playdough
- Look at pictures in a National Geographic Magazine
- Put a simple puzzle together
- Sand wood
- Rub in hand lotion with a pleasant scent
- Decorate paper place mats
- Arrange fresh flowers
- Remember famous people
- Straighten underwear drawer
- Finish nursery rhymes
- Make peanut butter sandwiches
- Wipe off patio furniture
- Cut up used paper for scratch paper
- Take care of a fish tank
- Trace and cut out leaves
- Ask simple trivia questions
- Finish Bible quotes
- Paint with string
- Cut out pictures from magazines
- Read classic short stories
- Put coins into a jar
- Sew sewing cards
- Put bird feed out for birds
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