Puzzles To Remember: An Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Comment About Springbok’s PuzzlesToRemember

Puzzles To Remember

PUZZLES TO REMEMBER is a youth led 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through jigsaw puzzles, cognitive engagement, and social connection. Led by Executive Director Hailey Richman, Puzzles To Remember has distributed more than 236,000 puzzles valued at over $2 million to more than 5,000 memory care communities, nursing homes, veterans facilities, senior centers, and other organizations across all 50 states and 16 countries. Our programs have benefited more than one million people while diverting approximately 148 tons of puzzles from landfills through donation and reuse. Puzzles To Remember also promotes intergenerational connection through Puzzle Time, which brings young people together with individuals living with dementia for shared puzzle solving, conversation, and companionship. Our mission is to provide engaging and purposeful activities that promote connection, participation, and joy while enhancing the quality of life of those affected by dementia. Donate Puzzles If you have puzzles you would like to donate, please contact us at Puzzles2Remember@gmail.com. We will help identify a location where your puzzles can benefit individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Donation acknowledgment letters are available upon request.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

An Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Comment About Springbok’s PuzzlesToRemember

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Below is a comment I received yesterday about Springbok’s PuzzlesToRemember. I think Laura has said it all:

I just purchased two that I plan to take to the Alzheimer’s nursing home unit where my husband spent the last two years of his life. I know he would have really enjoyed these puzzles, especially Chocolate Sweethearts, which will arrive just in time for Valentine’s Day!
I look forward to showing these puzzles to the wonderful aides who took such good care of my husband, as well as to the Activities Director there. Every memory care unit should have several of these. They are beautiful, engaging and comforting – all the things that provide pleasure and intellectual stimulation for people suffering from memory loss. You can be sure that I will be a repeat customer!
Laura from Dallas

Max Wallack is a student at Boston University Academy. His great grandmother, Gertrude, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Max is the founder of PUZZLES TO REMEMBER. PTR is a project that provides puzzles to nursing homes and veterans institutions that care for Alzheimer's and dementia patients.