Thank you so much thredUP for shipping us a HUGE box of beautiful puzzles for Puzzle distribution! (Love Van Gogh's Starry Night). They will be distributed to persons living with Alz for Global Youth Service Day! We gladly accept puzzle donations from companies! All donations receive a tax deduction letter, and the puzzles bring joy to the Alzheimer's communities! #kidcaregivers #GYSD22 #thredup #hersheyheartwarmingproject #hillshirefarm #multiplyinggood
My Kid Caregivers organization has collected over 2000 jigsaw puzzles for PUZZLE TIME! We have student volunteers, Scouts and Puzzle Ambassadors delivering the puzzles and staying for PUZZLE TIME with the residents. This is the second year that I am a recipient of the HERSHEY heartwarming Hero Grant! I am honored!
Here is a video showing Kid Caregivers PUZZLE TIME Ambassadors engaging with Alzheimer's patients. Click below!
A lot of new volunteers for my Puzzle Time program view this video which shows them how the program works! I am very excited that we are expanding greatly, especially the Bronx! Please reach out to us at Kidcaregivers@gmail.com to volunteer. Or visit me at www.kidcaregivers.com and fill out a form!
Hi Everyone! Please listen to my podcast interview on Answers for Elders! I discuss my role as Executive Director for Puzzles To Remember and my role as Founder and Executive Director of Kid Caregivers (www.kidcaregivers.com) We talk about my roles, what I am presenting doing and what I hope to accomplish! Here is the link:
I am extremely lucky to have a mentor named Dr. Max Wallack! His great grandma Gertrude and my grandma Ruth both had Alzheimer's disease. Both of us are only children, and we were both CAREGIVERS. That was our bond. Dr. Max graduated from Harvard Medical School, and is now in his medical residency. He wants to be a neuroradiologist. A neuroradiologist studies x-rays, CT scans, MRIs PET scans, etc to see how the brain is doing. They can see early stages of Alzheimer's disease and other issues in the brain, their work is very very important!
A lot of people have asked me how I came up with the name "PUZZLE TIME" for my national and global intergenerational program. Even though I have almost 2000 volunteers I also visit facilities and participate in Puzzle Time because I really do find it rewarding to help others! There is a facility in NYC which houses people who have cerebral palsy (CP) and are deaf. In the olden days people with CP did not live long enough to develop Alzheimer's disease. But due to better medical care they are living longer, and developing dementia. I made friends with a resident named "Bill". He is always excited to see me and my volunteers and Girl Scouts! He used to yell, "its PUZZLE TIME!" when we arrived. I loved the simple name which describes what we are doing; which is solving jigsaw puzzles with Alzheimer's patients for an hour. I am THRILLED to return to the facility on April 2nd! Stay tuned for puzzles! I have a lot of fun ideas!
I am so excited and honored to be an invited guest on the RodgerThatShow. I will be discussing my role as Executive Director for PuzzlesToRemember, my other organization, KidCaregivers (a support platform for caregiving youth) and my national and global PUZZLETIME PROGRAM! Here is a link to the show:
Our Executive Director, Hailey Richman, is also the Founder and Director of Kid Caregivers, a 501c3 nonprofit organization with two missions: to provide intergenerational PUZZLE TIME programs pairing students and seniors for an hour of jigsaw puzzle solving, and support to youth members who are caregivers. Callie distributed 156 care packages with jigsaw puzzles to residents in a nursing home! The next step will be PUZZLE TIME with the Girl Scouts and dementia patients. Thank you Callie!
Puzzle Time, is a project that I started through my KIDCAREGIVERS organiztion (www.kidcaregivers.com) - it is an intergenerational program of pairing youth members and dementia patients for an hour of jigsaw puzzle solving and it is GROWING! The research shows that when Alzheimer's patients solve puzzles it stimulates their visual cortex (occipital lobe) which improves memory, reduces agitation, improves mood and slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease. But guess what? The science shows that KIDS benefit greatly from solving jigsaw puzzles. So in the long run, PUZZLE TIME is helpful to everyone. It is a WIN-WIN situation. For the science kids out there like me, here is a current article, click here
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