Ways to Engage Someone with Dementia in the Outdoors
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Ways to Engage Someone with Dementia in the Outdoors

ByMargaret Jarrell

Current research shows that outdoor activity promotes brain plasticity by stimulating new connections between cells in the parts of our brain responsible for speech, processing, interpreting sensory stimulation, coordination, problem solving, emotional reasoning and complex thought.  When we are outside, we are exposed to 33–66 times the amount of natural light that we receive indoors. Being…

Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty! – Bringing Gardening to Everyone
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Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty! – Bringing Gardening to Everyone

ByJulia Johnson

The beauty and renewal of spring is upon us! And despite not having been in a garden or getting their hands dirty in the soil of flower beds, our elders living with dementia may have had a love of Mother Earth and we don’t even know it!

It is important that EVERY person have the ability enjoy activities they’ve loved throughout their lives.