Nursing home residents and Alzheimer’s patients often don’t receive mail even though they would like to be remembered at mail time.  Those in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s, when they still can comprehend, do enjoy letters, postcards, and cards.  
My mom, when she had Alzheimer’s and resided in a nursing home, enjoyed looking at cards and notes.  She also collected cards from other residents and thought they’d been sent to her!  We read them together and then returned the cards.   
In a recent article, “Letters Welcomed by Nursing Home Residents,” that I wrote for Inky Trail News, a print publication, I related my experiences about writing to nursing home residents,  …read more