I experienced much enjoyment teaching a memory journal workshop at the nursing home where my my mom lived for many years during her Alzheimer’s journey.  The activities staff and I had to do most of the actual arranging of photos and pasting them.  However, the residents chose those they wanted to use, as well as colors for page backgrounds and stickers for decorating.
I also found it fun, in a bittersweet way, to put together a memory album of my mom’s last years.  I picked out photos of the good times I’d had with my grandchildren when we visited Mother.  In …read more