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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, October 15, 2015

Springbok PuzzlesToRemember Have Recently Been Supplied to 60 Facilities in Georgia

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By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember
 
I am so happy to be able to supply Springbok PuzzlesToRemember to 60 additional Alzheimer's facilities in Georgia.

I'd like to share some of the comments I received today:

"Thank you so much for our puzzles. Just last week we tried to put a standard 100 piece puzzle together.  We had a lot of frustration and residents that gave up.   Today we did your puzzles for the first time, and completed the entire puzzle. The residents were confident, proud, and were having fun!! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful product."

"Just wanted to say thank you for your generosity of sharing your puzzles with us. At one time we were doing a lot of puzzling, then we had a resident turn over. Hopefully we will start doing puzzles again real soon. I love the size of the puzzle pieces. I can’t wait to work with the residents with the puzzles. Would love to purchase some for our residents. We love to put puzzles together and make pictures out of them. Thank you soooooo much. May you be blessed for your donation."

"Thank you so much for the wonderful puzzles!  The residents enjoy them very much.  We plan to invest in  more of these puzzles   because of the enjoyment they bring to our residents."  


 

Max Wallack graduated from Boston University and worked as a Research Intern in the Molecular Psychiatry and Aging Laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine.  He is currently a student at Harvard Medical School.  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

Posted by Max Wallack at 7:02 PM

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PUZZLES TO REMEMBER was founded in 2008 by Max Wallack, in memory of his great-grandmother, Gertrude Finkelstein, who died of Alzheimer's disease in 2007.
Puzzles To Remember is registered in Massachusetts as a public charity. Contributions are welcome, and are tax deductible under sec. 501(c.)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

For more information, write to us at Puzzles2Remember@gmail.com