Puzzles To Remember: Alzheimer’s Program in San Diego

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, April 25, 2013

Alzheimer’s Program in San Diego

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember
The University City Older Adult Center, in San Diego, offers a great day program for older adults. These adults have the opportunity to meet new friends and enjoy good conversations in a friendly environment.

Here are some of the benefits of this program:

Professional, caring staff
Social, educational, and recreational programs
Nutritionally-balanced kosher lunch
Excellent exercise classes
Sing-a-longs, dances, and live entertainment
Four hours of meaningful and enriching activities for older adults
Appropriate for older adults with early stages of dementia and Alzheimer's

This program operates, at a reasonable fee, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10 am to 2 pm.

PuzzlesToRemember recently supplied two of the Springbok PuzzlesToRemember to this program.

Here is the reaction from their activity director:

"The puzzles are terrific, the size, colors, and themes are extraordinary."

Of course, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is a picture of a gentleman whose reaction says it all:

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Max Wallack is a student at Boston University and a Research Intern in the Molecular Psychiatry in Aging Laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine. 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.

1 Comment:

Jack Rosenberg said...: This is great! Active senior citizens may be limited in some way, but still be bright and happy to join into a fun, physically active, or educational activity or hobby. Stimulating the mind and body has been proven to slow the aging process, which leads to better living.

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