I have dementia and alzheimers on both sides of my family. I have a shoebox of little trinkets, nick nacks and papers that really seems like a big junk drawer, but its all tethered to memories.
I also use an iPod with playlists. I started to make playlists based on the year (April 2014 for example) and tend to listen to the songs for a duration of time. Whenever my iPod shuffles all my songs, certain ones will play and wherever I was and whatever was the strongest memory while listening to the song will pop in my head.
Try to find the important things to remember before the grey matter is gone.
I have dementia and alzheimers on both sides of my family. I have a shoebox of little trinkets, nick nacks and papers that really seems like a big junk drawer, but its all tethered to memories.
I also use an iPod with playlists. I started to make playlists based on the year (April 2014 for example) and tend to listen to the songs for a duration of time. Whenever my iPod shuffles all my songs, certain ones will play and wherever I was and whatever was the strongest memory while listening to the song will pop in my head.
Try to find the important things to remember before the grey matter is gone.
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