Here are some of the ways you can spend time with someone who suffers from Alzheimer’s :

• Listen to music
• Toss a ball
• Color pictures
• Make homemade lemonade
• Count trading cards
• Clip coupons
• Sort poker chips
• Read out loud chapters from Harry Potter books or other favorite stories
• Rake leaves
• String beads
• Bake cookies
• Take photos of the person and you and create a collage
• Brush or comb one another’s hair
• Plant seeds indoors or outdoors
• Look at family photographs
• Wipe off the kitchen table
• Weed the flowerbed or tend to the garden
• Fold laundry
• Have a friend visit with a well-behaved pet
• Cut pictures out of greeting cards or magazines
• Play dominoes
• Ask the person about his or her favorite childhood books or cartoon characters (you can share yours too)
• Bake homemade bread
• Sort objects by shape or color
• Sing old songs
• Invite the person to tell you more when he or she talks about a memory
• Put silverware away
• Make a Valentine card
• Play favorite songs and sing
• Ask the person about his or her brothers or sisters
• Make a cherry pie
• Play with tops or jacks
• Make a scrapbook
• Take a walk around the yard
• Write a poem together
• Reminisce about the first day of school
• String Cheerios