Engage The Brain With Simple Tasks

Let your mom with Alzheimer’s disease clean up, and let your dad with Frontotemporal dementia wash your car. No one, even people with Alzheimer’s dementia, wants to feel as if they are useless.You can make their lives purposeful by giving them simple tasks they can do successfully.There’s something wonderful about doing tasks that engages the brain easily. Allowing the body to move and be active at the same time. By picking up a dish and placing it into warm soapy water. Or grabbing the washcloth and slowly rubbing the debris off the plate. These simple actions are never truly forgotten by anyone.

By allowing your loved one to re-engage their brain as they used to do when they were actively independent. You are empowering them to think and keep being engaged. In doing regular household chores, you’re giving the person with dementia a purpose and feeling of usefulness. It then motivates them, and they feel satisfied. They don’t become lethargic and sad if they’re moving about and doing things.