This week, I would like to continue to sharing on more meaningful activitiesthat I conduct with my mother.
I engage her in :
6) Meal preparation at home
Can do list: Cutting French beans, peeling hard boiled eggs for my home made nasi lemak, cut her pandan leaves from her garden to put in my nasi lemak rice
Motivation: A sense of satisfaction of assisting the family and being part of the family in meal preparation.
7) Other useful resources of meaningful activities include puzzle, colouring.
Motivation: Satisfaction of achieving an activity that she does not have the time for when she was young.
The Video shows the various ways we can engage our elderly and with empathy and love, we can make this place a more dementia inclusive society.
8) Do a memory album to introduce herself or a memory box where she can keep things that she is familiar with. It can contain her old photos and art and craft items. This will allow her reminisce and recollect the familiar faces and experiences that she has gone through.
9) Encouraging her to go to a favourite place
Motivation to go rehabilitation: So that she can be independent to go to her favourite hawker centre for her breakfast
It is also a place outside the home where my family knows about and there are people at the hawker centre who knows who she is. It is a place where she enjoys interacting with familiar hawkers who knows her and knows her food preferences.
10) Getting her to do laundry and folding of clothes. I once watched a video of nursing home residents where they can still iron clothes, prepare meals, cut vegetables, fold clothes and all of them have advance dementia. They are not bed bound, not all have difficulty swallowing that need assistance in feeding.
My Observation from the video : All can age gracefully with dementia
When I saw this video clip, I realised that my mother can be motivated to do this as well. She need not be totally bed bound even if she progresses to advanced stage. If the early intervention that I provide for her right now (inclusive of all these meaningful activities, as well as once a week physiotherapy, 3 days a week of dementia day care activities, early diagnosis of her illness, proper management of her other chronic illness), I hope that she can spend more of her disease in the moderate stage and have a shorter stage where she will need assistance in all her instrumental activities of daily living.
Indeed, this list is not exhaustive. Let me know if you have other good ideas to engage your elderly loved ones too. Let us continue to thrive in our caregiving and let them age gracefully with dementia. Let our journey with them while they are living in dementia be a meaningful and purposeful one.
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