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1)An excellent activity to do with a small group of seniors with Alzheimer's is to bake, cook, or prepare food (ie

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1)An excellent activity to do with a small group of seniors with Alzheimer's is to bake, cook, or prepare food (ie. Bake banana muffins, make a fruit salad, husk corn, etc.). Think about one of these three activity examples, or come up with your own, and in only one brief paragraph, explain how you would run the program for seniors with Alzheimer's. (Introduce the program you chose, the number of residents you would include, location of the program, set up required, and include any other relevant details).

2)Then note how you would incorporate each of the following techniques into your program: (Please list each technique and write your response beside the technique.)

a.   Giving residents control over the activity (for example, if I chose the program "making a fruit salad" I could write: a) I would let the residents chose which fruits to add to the fruit salad. If I chose the program "baking banana muffins" I could write: I would let each resident decide if they want to peel bananas or mash bananas")

b.   Breaking down the task into simple steps

c.    Distracting rather than coercing a resident into joining the activity

d.   Use of reminiscing during the program

e.   Socialization opportunities within the activity

f.     Stimulating various senses during the program

g.   Focus on residents' strengths and skills

h.   Use of physical gestures and prompts to help communicate the activity

i.     Connecting the activity to the residents' past history

j.     Repeating instructions for further assistance

k.    Provide hand over hand assistance

l.     Use of humor, singing, dancing, or clapping hands

m.  Physically helping a resident get started with a task

n.   Size of the class

 

3)Research the Alzheimer's Society Canada (Ottawa's Dementia Society) at this link: https://alzheimer.ca/en/ottawa/About-dementia. Read the sections titled: "What is Dementia", "Alzheimer's Disease" and "Dementias".

4)List and describe several ways you can help keep your brain healthy.