What Can I Do Daily to Keep My Grandmother From Getting Alzheimers?
Monday, January 11th, 2010 at
12:06 am
My Velouria asked:
Are there any daily activities I can partake with my grandmother to keep her from falling into the clutches of Alzheimers…she is 81, and I worry.
She doesn’t like to read much.
Is there anything that doesn’t involve reading and writing — that will help her retain her memory. Other sorts of excericises?
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Unfortunately, there’s nothing that you can do about Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a disease that is hereditary. The good news is that if she was going to get it, she probably would’ve had beginning symptoms by now.
Learning ANYthing new will help because it forces new neural connections to be made.
Involve her in art classes. Encourage her to participate in a community drama group. Take frequent day trips to place you have NOT been before. Learn ANY NEW skill (woodworking, knitting, jewelry making, web design, square dancing). Reinforcing old learning does not work in the same way. They must be NEW tasks (to require NEW neural connections).
Get her suduko puzzles. These are GREAT. They require no reading, and only very little writing. They require no actual math, but do require logical thinking.
You’re a great grandchild to think ahead to help your grandmother in this way.
She can try Sudoku
Or you can play board games with her like scrabble.
Yes research does show that learning new things, and doing exercises that require some though (e.g: crossword puzzles) can help prevent alzheimers.
really, there is no way to stop this disease if it see’s fit to attack your grandma but, there are many things she can do to exercise her brain. anything that will make her have to think about things. my friend had her mom file some work papers for her. separate them by category and alphabetize them. crossword or word find puzzles are good too.keeping her socially active can also help. she needs to keep her mind active.
Well I am very sad to say that there is nothing you can do to prevent that. I’m thinking (and God forbids) that my mom is gonna have it, but hopefully not. My grandmother had it.
How about games with playing cards or dice. My grandma used to like Bunco, Yahtzee, Cribbage, Gin, and Rummy. Or, how about Uno. There’s also large cross-stitch or making rugs with looping yarn. There are activities directors at all nursing homes too who have to come up with activities all the time. They might be able to give you some ideas too. Good Luck