Puzzles To Remember: January 2018

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 14, 2018

45 Assisted Living Facilities Supplied with Puzzles This Week

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

This week, big boxes of puzzles were sent to 45 different Assisted Living Facilities in Maine and Rhode Island.

We hope these puzzles will provide many hours of peaceful activity.

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

Request for Puzzles from New Zealand

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Today PuzzlesToRemember received a request for puzzles from a dementia facility in New Zealand. We will be sending them some of the Springbok PuzzlesToRemember.

I hope the residents enjoy the puzzles. When we receive photos of the puzzles being enjoyed in New Zealand, we will post them.

Puzzles Delivered to Castle Senior Living

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Today Hailey and her friend delivered the puzzles donated by the Puzzle Warehouse, the "World's Largest Jigsaw Store," to Castle Senior living in Queens, New York.

Tomorrow, they will return to the facility and do the puzzles together with the residents there. What a wonderful thing to do on this day of public service!

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Puzzles Warehouse Donates Puzzles for Those with Dementia

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Hailey and I would like to thank the Puzzles Warehouse very much for the large box of puzzles that was delivered to us yesterday.

The puzzles are perfect for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Hailey will be bringing 4 or more friends to memory care facilities, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. They will spend time solving the puzzles, and then give them to the facility to keep and reuse with their residents.

Your kindness and generosity will help to brighten the lives of people who are living daily with dementia. Here is a photo of Hailey and her friend opening up the box with delight!