Alzheimer's
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5 Sensory Tips to Soothe Anxiety in Dementia Patients
Individuals that have Alzheimer’s or dementia may also experience anxiety. Although it can feel overwhelming, properly identifying anxiety in dementia patients and offering the best types of support is essential. In this blog post, we’re going to explain what anxiety is, discuss some dementia anxiety symptoms, and offer five top... -
Indoor Activities to do with Dementia Patients
Engaging and stimulating individuals living with dementia is extremely important for their health, mood, and overall wellbeing. Although getting out and about has an array of stimulating benefits, enjoying the outdoors isn't always a possibility. That's why having a bank of meaningful activities for dementia patients to enjoy indoors is a great idea. Indoor activities for individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer's can be just as effective for keeping them active, engaged, and happy.
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Environmental Control in a Multisensory Room
What is Sensory Environmental Control? Multisensory rooms and products are of huge benefit to individuals with autism, ADHD, Alzheimer’s and other limited abilities. It’s important to remember that everyone with these challenges is unique and tolerates different levels of sensory stimulation, so often a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t ideal. For those... -
Calming or Interactive Multisensory Room Equipment?
With so much multisensory room equipment available, if you step into a multisensory room, what you witness is outstanding. The lights, sounds, music, tones, textures, feel, and scents can be pleasurable, calming, alerting, and have been known to raise endorphin levels. And, for individuals who are challenged by their sensory... -
Alzheimers Disease and the Benefits of a Multisensory Room
This month we acknowledge brain awareness to bring understanding and support to those suffering from Alzheimer's, dementia and brain diseases. And, there is no better time to do this, especially with today’s offering of supportive resources and sensory activities for dementia patients. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of... -
Does A Sensory Diet Help With Pain Management?
A multisensory environment and a sensory diet may just be the ticket to pain management triggered by sensory processing disorders. When we think of sensory diets, which are used for treating Sensory Processing Disorder, we often think of children with neurological challenges such as Autism. However, sensory processing disorder in adults... -
How to Develop Emotional Intelligence with Sensory Equipment
People who have a cognitive delay, neurological challenges or other sensory processing disorders can display signs of delayed or under-developed emotional intelligence and understanding. However, the use of sensory equipment offers a sensory solution for improving and developing emotional intelligence in a person who may have any one of these...