Puzzles To Remember: Alzheimer’s Patients Have Received Over 10,000 Puzzles

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 12, 2012

Alzheimer’s Patients Have Received Over 10,000 Puzzles

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

PuzzlesToRemember has now distributed over 10,000 puzzles to facilities that care for Alzheimer’s patients. These facilities are located in every state, as well as Canada and Mexico.

Activity Directors frequently contact PuzzlesToRemember, requesting puzzle contributions. They often cite the scarcity of much needed activities for their patients with moderate or severe Alzheimer’s disease.

Recently, many individuals have emailed offering to donate their own puzzles. Some have only a few puzzles to donate. Others have contributed several hundred puzzles. Every puzzle has the potential to help many seniors in nursing facilities. Usually it is possible to match up the difficulty of the puzzle with a nursing ward with residents of appropriate abilities. Everyone benefits.

Those donating puzzles are even able to claim their value as a tax deduction! Contact PuzzlesToRemember@gmail.com, and you will be given a location to which to bring your puzzles as well as a donation letter for tax purposes.

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.