How do you answer these questions?
Facilities
- Are you looking for a meaningful, adult activity?
- Would you like to enlist a volunteer in a self-directed
activity for your residents?
- Do you like visible projects that demonstrate your
service to your residents?
- Do you want to show your support
for the families wrestling with Alzheimer’s?
- Would you like to demonstrate to your staff a commitment
to soften the difficult care?
- Will you grant a voice to the possibilities still
residing within Alzheimer’s?
- Are you looking for an activity that recycles for years
without additional investment?
- Visit The Options. Make
your choices for Making Tired Eyes Smile in your community.
Volunteers
- Are you looking for an activity to make the difference in
the lives of others?
- Do you have an hour a week to volunteer?
- Do you believe possibilities of joy exist for our friends
with Alzheimer’s?
- Are you a person who is generous with praise, encourages
achievement, is aware of nonverbal communication patterns, adjusts to the
unexpected, guards against criticism and irrelevant correction, does not have
to have it ‘right’, is animated, avoids arguments and speaks audibly, concisely
and simply?
- Are you open to expanding the perception of Alzheimer’s?
Visit Free Downloads.
Print the flyers and/or lesson plan. Give Attention: Facilities to the
executive director at a facility you would like to see engage in this activity.
Ask them to make a purchase. Volunteer at this facility. Then together the two
of you will be Making Tired Eyes Smile. Give Attention: Volunteers to
a person you think would love to give and receive joy.
Or refer the executive director or the potential
volunteer to this web site: AlzSmiles.com.
Facilitators of family support
groups
- Are you looking for
another avenue to broaden the perceptions of family members?
- Could you use tools that
open new and challenging conversations?
- Do you want to motivate
your support group to begin writing that heals?
Visit Speaking Engagements for excerpts of readings for a
family support group.
Visit The Options and
select Readings: To Prompt Conversations in a Family Support Group
for Alzheimer’s.
Family members
- Are you looking for tools to prompt your communications
with your loved one?
- Would you like to spend time reading stories designed
specifically for our friends with Alzheimer’s or dementia?
- Would you enjoy reading poetry together that jogs
memories?
- Would you benefit from working with your loved one with a
weekly skill card?
- Would the words of another on this path comfort you?
- What stories still are possible for a person with
Alzheimer’s?
- What is a person with Alzheimer’s thankful for?
Visit The Options. Select one or all of the following:
- Leave an activity – Skill Cards
- A Collection of Poems
- My Family: Stories to Prompt Stories
- The Diary – My Unedited and Uneven Steps (Annotated)
- Weaving Whimsy – (Stories and poetry from a circle
of friends)
- We Are Thankful – (Expressions of gratitude)
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