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Quilters at the DeKalb County Nursing Home will donate a quilt to the Northern Illinois University’s Blackwell History of Education Museum. The quilt, titled DeKalb County One-Room Schoolhouse Quilt, consists of nine squares, picturing one-room schoolhouses of DeKalb County.
Pat Barger, a volunteer at the nursing home, constructed the quilt along with 13 other quilters who meet at the nursing […]
Before Alzheimer’s patients reach the latter stages of Alzheimer’s, they’re still able to participate in craft activities. Even then, they often enjoy watching. I had an enjoyable time working with patients at a nursing home on a scrapbooking project. Collages can be fun, too. Often while working on these projects, patients are stimulated to chat […]
I’ve experienced some very enjoyable times with nursing home residents, some of whom had Alzheimer’s, scrapbooking and recording family memories. On one occasion, I worked with them for three successive Wednesdays on a joint scrapbooking project.
With the assistance of one of the activity aides, we pasted photos on pages to make a general scrapbook they […]
Encouraging Alzheimer's caregivers from someone who's been there.
Written by Mary Emma Allen [email] for b5media.
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