Try: Give cr different activities to do each day this keeps the day interesting and fun variety is the spice of life if the cr is tired of doing activities indoors during the winter go on a road trip when there is a mild day go for a drive through the park have dinner at a nice restaurant or go out to a dinner theatre the cr does not need to stay cooped up all winter long the amount of fun that you and the cr have is often a matter of attitude use your imagination and be creative in coming up with fun activities to beat the winter blaahs

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Categories: Emotional Psychological, Social, Fully Aware, Somewhat Aware

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Keywords: Bored daily activities boredom

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Try: Let cr help with household chores to boost cr cr’s self-esteem when cr helps out don’t forget to say thank you

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Personal, Social

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Self esteem daily chores household chores

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Try: Ask cr to wash dishes set the table or prepare food

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Self esteem daily chores household chores doesn’t feel useful useless productive

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Try: Ask cr to sweep the floor polish shoes

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Self esteem daily chores household chores doesn’t feel useful useless productive

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Try: Ask cr to sort mail and clip coupons sort socks and fold laundry sort recycling materials or other things

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Self esteem daily chores household chores doesn’t feel useful useless productive

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Try: Decide if cr can do the activity alone or needs help let him or her watch if that is more enjoyable

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Social, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Activities games leisure fun

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Try: Watch to see if cr gets frustrated make sure cr feels successful and has fun

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Social, Verbal Communication, So-So Verbal Comm, Poor Verbal Comm, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Games crafts leisure activities fun frustration frustrated

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Try: Plan activities cr likes to do help cr start the activity help cr join in on the activity suggest that cr just watch for a while

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Social, Mobility, Needs Some Assistance, Needs Much Assistance, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Activities games leisure fun

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Try: Match the activity with what cr can do choose activities that can be fun for everyone help cr get started

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Social, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Unaware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Activities games leisure fun

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Try: Help cr plan his her day and the tasks he she wants or needs to do write out a step-by-step process for doing a task

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical, Personal, Independence, Some Supervision, Maximum Supervision, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Unaware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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References: caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

Keywords: Daily tasks lazy disorganized confused can’t get started starting the day

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