“Touch Quilts” for Parenting Your Parents
July 11, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Parenting
I’ve been receiving comments at former blogs regarding caregiving, Alzheimer’s and quilts. I now write these at b5’s Blisstree and would like to share the information received from readers. I hope you’ll find it interesting and informative.
To my post, Design a Touch Quilt for Alzheimer’s Patients, one of my readers pointed me to Eva’s Loving Touch Lap Quilts. Here we learn about the Alzheimer’s patient’s need for tactile or sensory stimulation and comfort.
This reminds me how much my aunt seemed to need the sensation of something comforting to rub her hands over as she sat in her rocking chair. My mother, in …read more




