Hi,
I have just finished reading a book called Alzheimers Challenged and Conquered? I dont know if anyone else has read this book but it has some interesting ideas in it.
It is all about a man named Louis Blank and his story about finding out he has Alzheimers and dealing with it.
It tells the story of his life and the feelings of his wife and daughter.
I could emphasize with the things that were happening to him as my mum has Alzheimers and I found myself nodding and saying to myself 'thats what my mum was doing'.
My mum is now at the stage where there is very little that she can do for herself.
The book tells of Louis challenge and how he made himself do mind exercises to overcome the disease. He worked constantly, doing memory exercises all day, every day, repeating things constantly and trying to make his brain alert again.
Apparantly he succeeded!
I was just wondering if anyone else has tried anything like this?
My mum doesnt know what time, day or season it is, let alone being able to remember things like the 7 times table backwards! (which is one of the things Louis did). Do you think something like this could help?
I was thinking of doing charts with her with the days of the week on, or perhaps a simple times table chart.
Has anyone got any ideas for memory games that they have found helpful?
Thanks
I have just finished reading a book called Alzheimers Challenged and Conquered? I dont know if anyone else has read this book but it has some interesting ideas in it.
It is all about a man named Louis Blank and his story about finding out he has Alzheimers and dealing with it.
It tells the story of his life and the feelings of his wife and daughter.
I could emphasize with the things that were happening to him as my mum has Alzheimers and I found myself nodding and saying to myself 'thats what my mum was doing'.
My mum is now at the stage where there is very little that she can do for herself.
The book tells of Louis challenge and how he made himself do mind exercises to overcome the disease. He worked constantly, doing memory exercises all day, every day, repeating things constantly and trying to make his brain alert again.
Apparantly he succeeded!
I was just wondering if anyone else has tried anything like this?
My mum doesnt know what time, day or season it is, let alone being able to remember things like the 7 times table backwards! (which is one of the things Louis did). Do you think something like this could help?
I was thinking of doing charts with her with the days of the week on, or perhaps a simple times table chart.
Has anyone got any ideas for memory games that they have found helpful?
Thanks