Puzzles To Remember: 100 More Alzheimer's Facilities Receive Springbok 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.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

100 More Alzheimer's Facilities Receive Springbok PuzzlesToRemember

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Today, Springbok PuzzlesToRemember were sent out to an additional 100 Alzheimer’s facilities. The feedback continues to be very positive. Here is an email I received today:

Just to let you know the Puzzles have arrived. They arrived today which is a day P does not go to Day Care so I got him to do one straightaway. He was so pleased with himself that he could do it and when he had finished it he even asked me if I wanted a cup of tea and got up and made me one.. That is the first time he has made a cup of tea for several weeks.

Our daughter arrived just after he had finished it and he couldn't wait to tell her he had done a jigsaw by himself.

I am so grateful to you for your help.

P is still sitting there saying 'I did that puzzle'. We are going out for a drive soon so I will get him to try another one this afternoon. The one he did is the New York one.
My Sincere thanks
Jocelyn from New Zealand

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.