Find Out A Few Of The Activities For People With Dementia You Should Practice

By Phyllis Schroeder


Many people do not understand the conditions that affect their brain cells, as they grow older. However, you should not imagine that brain cells get damaged only by age. You may find individuals who encounter life experiences that cause brain impairment in a great way. Doctors refer to the condition where brain cells are damaged as dementia. This condition affects your thinking, communication and memory parts. To make victims of such conditions feel appreciated, most countries have set several activities for people with dementia.

It is obvious that individuals with health challenges find the healthy one more privileged than them. What the healthy individuals should do is looking for affairs that would make the victims find joy and importance of life. Do not allow the victims to perform personal care engagements such as bathing on their own. Help them to dress well and brush their teeth in the right way since this diverts their attention from what is most oppressing.

You may also participate in improving their life by helping them to prepare meals. Most of the victims of this condition may not know what they should prepare to eat. In fact, some of them even forget to follow the right procedure when cooking some meals. However, you can help them prepare meals in a more professional manner bearing in mind the nutrient balance the meals should contain.

If you like social involvements, you should find these victims the best partners for them. Research experts say that such social engagements keep the victims active the whole day and this is good for their brain. If you have a debate to engage, allow these victims to be part of it and take their opinions rightly. This way, you boost their belief that other humans appreciate them just the way they are.

Although you may not find anything unique in going to church, these victims would find everything about it interesting. They would love meeting new friends in your church and share life experiences. They would also feel good when they join others to sing sweet hymn songs and choruses. Anything of this sort that would stimulate happiness in their body systems is what they need to recover quickly.

It is also important to involve these individuals in artistic affairs. These activities enhance their creativity. Look for the best music and listen together with them or even engage them to painting and coloring sessions. You may also involve them in playing musical instruments such as piano and trumpets. By so doing, you divert their attention from the medical condition that is oppressing them.

You should seek to know if there are academic activities you could engage them in to improve their condition. Firstly, it is good to look for interesting story books or novels to read and where possible read together. You may also decide to give them puzzles to fill or play scripts to write.

Lastly, allow them to help you do some of the household tasks that are simple for them. Let them help you sort out clean clothes from the dirty one. You may also involve them in the shoe polishing sessions, carpet laying or sofa covering.




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