This article provides general educational information and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional about individual concerns. Garden and flower themes are among the most familiar and consistently popular subjects for older adults. Whether someone spent decades tending a backyard garden, arranging flowers for a dining … Read more
This article provides general educational information and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional about individual concerns. Animals make a naturally flexible theme for activity programming. Depending on the person’s interests, an activity might center on pets, birds, farm animals, woodland creatures, marine life, or local … Read more
There comes a point in life when the calendar slows down, the house gets quieter, and you finally have something you worked hard for all those years: time. Real, unhurried, yours-to-fill time. And yet, for many women over 60, that open stretch of hours can feel a little uncertain. What do you do with a … Read more
This article provides general educational information and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional about individual concerns. Coloring can be a genuinely enjoyable activity for some adults living with dementia when the page, supplies, setting, and level of support match the person’s interests and current abilities. … Read more
If you have been feeling stretched thin lately, you are not alone. Life has a way of piling things on: the news, the to-do list, the worry that follows you from room to room. And in the middle of all of that noise, it can feel almost impossible to slow down. Coloring is one of … Read more