Puzzles To Remember: Over 29,000 Puzzles Supplied to Nursing Facilities, Adult Daycares, and Memory Cafes

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.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Over 29,000 Puzzles Supplied to Nursing Facilities, Adult Daycares, and Memory Cafes

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

PuzzlesToRemember has now supplied over 29,000 puzzles.

These have been supplied to nursing facilities, adult daycares, and memory cafes in all 50 U. S. states, 5 Canadian provinces, plus Aruba, Australia, Colombia, England, France, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, and South Africa.

Puzzles with new images are being developed and should be available soon. I will post the images when they become available.

For now, here are some happy faces, doing puzzles:

Max Wallack is a student at Boston University and a Research Intern in the Molecular Psychiatry and 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.