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…

  Photographs look past Alzheimer’s , an article by Henry Lehmann, in The Gazette at Canada.com, features interesting information about art Pascal Dufaux has done of his uncle who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. 
Alzheimer’s disease is both the subject and the title for Montreal artist Pascal Dufaux’s oddly penetrating photo-installation [of his uncle] now in one small room at Galerie Joyce Yahouda, according to the article.
“Taking photos of an Alzheimer’s patient!” you exclaim.  “I’d never do that.”
However, I find the photos we took of Mother, alone and with us, also remind us of happy times, as well as the bittersweet ones.  These are times when we …read more

A granddaugher’s photographic documentary of her grandmother’s life…

Steve Sawitski was a fascinating man with a colorful history. A stormtropper in WWII and a bookie for the mob in NYC, he had stories to tell but was increasingly unable to tell them due to suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.
Not wanting to lose his grandfather to the disease, his grandson Joel Reibert created a photographic tribute to his grandfather.
The photographs were displayed at the Bryan Alzheimer’s Research Conference in Durham, North Carolina March 1-2 2007. Here’s the video of the opening of the display.

You can also see Joel’s photographs of his grandfather here.

“No, never!  I don’t want photos of Mother [Father, Aunt Suzie, etc.] with Alzheimer’s,” you exclaim.
Each person looks at this differently and the way they want to remember that family member.  Some don’t want anything around to recall the Alzheimer’s days.  Others don’t mind because many of these memories, even though perhaps bittersweet, are filled with love.
Possibly, during the very last stages of their life with Alzheimer’s if they look very ill, emanciated, and totally unlike the person you’d like to remember, you won’t want photos.  However, I find the photos of Mother during her Alzheimer’s years memorable, especially those taken with …read more

A two minute slideshow of people living in an Alzheimer’s facility in Orange County. This project by Mary Amor was done for the 2005 OCC Social Issues Documentary Photography Scholarship.