Spending time with friends and family with Alzheimer’s is fun and meaningful and may have a greater impact that you might imagine. In this article we’ll discuss different activities to do together to create even more fantastic memories.
Go outdoors
- Take a walk together
- Do some gardening
- Feed the birds
- Rake some leaves
- Take a walk around your local park
- Play a ball game
- Set up a picnic
- Catch the sunrise with a cup of coffee, hot chocolate or tea
- Watch the sunset together
- Walk the dog
- Find a memory café to visit
- Visit a dementia friendly screening at a local cinema
- Visit a sensory garden
- Join a dementia friendly book club
Do something inside
- Listen to their favourite music together
- Look at family photo albums
- Prepare some lunch together
- Watch their favourite television show together
- Play a board game
- Read through a book / magazine together
- Watch a comfort film together
- Watch some sports together
- Play a card game
- Complete a puzzle together
- Play a quiz game
- Read the newspaper
- Groom a pet together
- Paint together
- Do their favourite hobbies together, knitting, writing etc.
- Play an online game together
- Do chores together
Do something more personal together
- Have a spa session
- Give them a manicure
- Take some photographs together
- Encourage conversation to be about their favourite subjects and ask questions
- Make a family tree together
- Do some light exercise / exercise class together
- Visit other family and friends together
Do something in the kitchen
- Bake cookies or bread
- Set the table for lunch
- Make their favourite lunch or snack
- Do the dishes
- Have a speedy clean and get them involved
Celebrate holidays
- Listen to their favourite holiday music
- Bake holiday desserts
- Carve a pumpkin
- Decorate a Christmas tree
- Watch their favourite holiday movie
- Sing some holiday songs together
- Play an instrument to a holiday melody