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Ten Ideas for Alzheimer’s Caregiver Gifts

Mary Emma Allen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:03 +0000

What to give the Alzheimer’s caregiver in your family… the person who is spending the most time, taking the most responsibility, experiencing more sleepless nights, and doing most of the other tasks involved with caring for the person with memory loss?

Here are ten ideas to make that person feel special:

1. DVD of a special movie

2. Set of CDs of favorite music

3. Tea set with specialty teas

4. Pretty sweater

5. Bath salts, bubble bath, body wash gift set

6. Lunch out

7. Two hours a week care to give her free time

8. Wash and set, perhaps a perm, at a beauty shoppe

9. Gift basket of gourmet foods

10. Chocolate!

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Ten Ideas for Alzheimer’s Caregiver Gifts

Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Relaxation Videos/DVD’s.

Liz Lewis — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:08:28 +0000

These are great for people who are no longer able to follow radio or television programs. Relaxation videos/DVD’s have no narrative and simply provide a soothing visual and musical experience. They can provide an avenue for reminiscing about the past and are also very helpful in reducing agitation and sundowning.

Resource:

Relaxationvideos.com

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Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Relaxation Videos/DVD’s.

Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Nostalgia Activity Books.

Liz Lewis — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:05:29 +0000

SeniorStore.com sells three great activity books that offer the opportunity to remember and reminisce about earlier decades.

1920s

1930s

1940s

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Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Nostalgia Activity Books.

Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Fitness Videos/DVD’s.

Liz Lewis — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:46:39 +0000

Exercise is another important component of staying healthy and depending on what stage of Alzheimer’s Disease the person is at, an exercise or fitness video might be an appropriate gift, especially if they aren’t able to get out and about due to weather…

Of course, it would be important to discuss this with the person’s doctor first to ensure that it would help and not impair the person’s health. Various other medical conditions could be contra indictive to exercive videos.

Resources:

Active Videos

Senior Store

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Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Board Games.

Liz Lewis — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:38:24 +0000

How about a classic board game for the person with Alzheimer’s Disease?

It’s a known fact that engaging in mentally stimulating activities on a regular basis helps to maintain brain function. Board games can provide that stimulation.

And not only do the games provide mental stimulation, they also provide a bonding activity for the whole family. Buy a game and then plan on regular game days or evenings for the family.

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Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Board Games.

Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Custom Jigsaw Puzzles.

Liz Lewis — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:25:56 +0000

A personalized wooden jigsaw puzzle is a great idea for a gift. It would provide not only a familiar memory for the person with Alzheimer’s Disease but would also provide an cognitive skills actiivity.

This video shows how it is made…

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Gifts for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease: Custom Jigsaw Puzzles.

Gift Buying for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Liz Lewis — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:11:00 +0000

With the Christmas season quickly arriving, it’s time to start hunting for gifts for family and friends. It’s a task that is often fraught with stress, especially when you are trying to buy for someone with Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s difficult to think of what to buy them. You spend your time asking yourself “Is this what they would like?”, “Is this something they would need?”, and “Will they recognize and use this gift?”

I recently across this great article ‘Enhancing Life for the Older Adult with Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Dementias: Some Gift Ideas’ by Stephanie Zeman Rn MSN that might help in your gift buying process.

Stephanie suggests you choose a gift based on what stage the Alzheimer’s patient is at. She breaks the stages down into early stage dementia, the moderately impaired, and the severely impaired and provides gift buying ideas for each stage. It’s an article worth checking out.

Meanwhile, I’ll be posting daily gift ideas all the way up to Christmas Eve, or until I run out of ideas…whichever comes first.

Please feel free to jump on in with your gift buying ideas…

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Gift Buying for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease.