These 70 engaging activities will stimulate the minds, memories, and senses of older adults. Designed especially for individuals with early memory loss, the short, one-page worksheets strengthen brain functioning, promote social interaction, and provide hours of meaningful enjoyment. Developed by two adult day services professionals and field-tested with individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's disease, the activities feature trivia, reminiscence, and sensory stimulation. Matching, fill-in-the-blank, and brain-storming worksheets allow older adults to test their memory and gain new knowledge on a wide variety of topics, including advertising slogans, popular culture of former decades, historical people and places, famous movies, favorite food and beverages, national landmarks, and much more. Strengthen Your Mind can be used independently by older adults with memory loss or by activity staff and group leaders for discussion and programming ideas. Tips for engagement and an answer key are included for each activity. Get this innovative book and provide older adults with leisure activities, learning experiences, and valuable brain exercise all at once.

Get ready to flex, tone, and boost the brain with Brain Flexers! Science has revealed how much our brains can grow and change in response to learning throughout life, even when a person is experiencing memory loss. Regardless of age, everyone has the ability to change their brain for the better! This mind-stimulating book offers tools and resources to strengthen mental functioning. Targeted brain fitness activities work to exercise many areas of cognition, such as memory, attention, focus, visual-spatial processing, and sequencing. These activities are fun-and appropriately challenging! And just like any good workout, the benefits increase the more you do! Organized by theme-Warm-ups, Sharpening Your Sense, Language, Geography, Creativity, History and Culture, Logic and Sequence, Music-each section comes equipped with ready-to-use worksheets of activities and corresponding answer sheets that include tips and advice for facilitators. From Conversation Starters to Scrambled Quotes to Doodling Fun to Natural Wonders of the World, you'll find in this book activities, trivia, and games that entertain while stimulating the mind and sharpening the senses. Useful with groups as well as one-on-one, the activities are also designed to promote discussion, reminiscence, and socializing-another important component to brain fitness. Brain Flexers is perfect for activity staff as well as individuals with early memory loss and their family members. Discover the laughter, conversation, and friendships that come from flexing the brain, and facilitate a positive brain workout designed for a fit and ever-changing mind.

A follow-up to the best-selling first volume of activities! These 87 all-new worksheets use trivia, reminiscence, and sensory stimulation to promote mental capacity and social engagement in older adults. Organized into three themes (People, Places, and Things), matching and fill-in-the-blank worksheets (answer keys provided) focus on famous people, popular television and movies, household goods, and geography. The activities can be used in group settings or by individuals.