Puzzles To Remember: February 2011

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.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Springbok Donates Puzzles To An Additional 100 Alzheimer’s facilities!

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Springbok’s PuzzlesToRemember are receiving great reviews. Springbok is a wonderful company to work with, and they make a quality product. This week I gave them a list of 100 Alzheimer’s facilities across the country, and next week they will be donating puzzles and shipping them to all 100 facilities. In addition, they are making donations to organizations that are conducting important research on Alzheimer’s disease.

These puzzles are helping many people. Here is the latest feedback I received:

“My mother is becoming more confident as she now solves the 12 piece puzzles with ease and is ready for "harder stuff". (I have also noticed her confidence level to have increased in general life since she feels good about herself...( a simple act of puzzle-solving makes her feel great overall -amazing).”

In April, Springbok will produce three new images for Springbok’s PuzzlesToRemember. You can view or order their current images here.

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.