Puzzles To Remember: 39,000 Puzzles Donated to Nursing Facilities

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, January 4, 2015

39,000 Puzzles Donated to Nursing Facilities

By Max Wallack

Puzzles to Remember

With a recent donation of 150 puzzles from Ceaco Puzzles, PuzzlesToRemember has now donated over 39,000 puzzles to nursing facilities.

The Ceaco puzzles range from 350 pieces to 1000 pieces, and they will be donated to assisted living facilities.

Springbok PuzzlesToRemember, 36 large sized piece puzzles, are donated to facilities caring for Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

PuzzlesToRemember attempts to match up the level of difficulty of the puzzles to the various facilities and the patient population it serves.

With puzzles having been donated to over 2700 facilities, PuzzlesToRemember has provided puzzles for over 80,000 seniors in nursing facilities.

If you know of a facility that could benefit from receiving puzzles, please let us know at PuzzlesToRemember@gmail.com

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.