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Guidelines
for Meaningful Activities
Courtesy of The
Alzheimer's Association - San Diego Chapter Newsletter
Guidelines
for a Meaningful Visit • Guidelines
for Meaningful Activities
A Few Possibilties for Meaningful
Activities
1. The activity is purposeful. It promotes
feelings of usefulness and self-esteem. Demonstrate your own
active interest in the activity.
2. It is process-oriented rather than goal-oriented.
3. The activity offers respect
for the person’s age, current abilities and who the person
is. It promotes an acceptance of herself at her own level.
4. The activity offers opportunities for success.
5. Expectations are minimal. The environment is calm, yet stimulating
and has few, if any, distractions.
6. The activity promotes physical activity and cognitive functions, but
is not demanding of the physical and cognitive areas that are impaired.
7. There is a sharing of positive interaction and humor between the two
of you.
8. As the person introducing the activity, you will need to offer direction.
Keep the activity simple and break it down, step by step, showing rather
than telling how to do it.
9. Adapt the activity to the person.
10. Repetitive and sorting activities are especially good: for example,
bring in a bag of clean socks and sort out the pairs. (Be sure they aren’t
all the same color and type!)
11. In the mornings, focus on tasks that require more ability (such as
productive tasks). In the afternoons, which may be restless times, focus
on calming leisure activities, like music, slow-moving and familiar videos,
and poetry.
12. Make sure the activity feels good.
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