How Does This Picture Connect With Alzheimer’s?
October 18, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Do you associate any memories with a rocking chair? Perhaps it’s connected with your Alzheimer’s patient. Did he or she enjoy relaxing and rocking? Maybe grandchildren or great grands surrounded them, listening to stories, playing, or sewing.
I think of my mom, when she had Alzheimer’s, sitting in a rocking chair. My grandchildren (her great grands) surrounded her. She reached out and touched the peach fuzz hair of the youngest, smiled and said, “Nice children.”
I don’t think she knew whose children they were and if they were related to her, but the children smiled back and enjoyed these times with Great Grandma.
Memories are made at times like these. They may be rocking chair memories or ones involving other events. Treasure them!
(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen
