Let's Look Together: An Interactive Picture Book for People with Alzheimer's and Other Forms of Memory Loss (A Dementia Activity Book)
From both the perspective of a medical librarian and a person who has experienced a family member with Alzheimer s disease, I find Let's Look Together: An Interactive Picture Book for People with Alzheimer's and Other Forms of Memory Loss to be of potentially great value. The book is an especially appropriate tool to include in a medical library collection for the use of health practitioners treating or being trained to treat Alzheimer's and other individuals with memory loss. It is equally useful in a personal setting as a resource for family and friends to use informally to stimulate and engage those with memory loss. --Suzanne Porter, MA, MSLS, Medical Librarian, Duke UniversityPersons with cognitive decline hunger for meaningful connections. Rae-Lynn Ziegler addresses this need with two gifts for the price of one in her picture book that is a rich sensory feast as well as a recipe for side-by-side, emotionally present exchanges between best friends over the shared feelings and emotions of the pictures. Magic moments are sure to follow from this rich interaction. --Virginia Bell, MSW, co-author, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's CareThis book provides individuals living with dementia a failure-free, friendly, emotionally rich, and familiar way to open up and share using their remaining abilities. It is supportive communication at its best and provides the person with memory loss the opportunity to tell old stories, share momentary thoughts, reflect on what they are feeling, or absorb some new information that has value and meaning. Together with the data that Rae-Lynn Zeigler provides regarding the impact and effect of the book on people within an assisted living special care unit, this resource can be used to help guide others as they seek to connect and communicate with those experiencing memory loss. --Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care & Training SpecialistPersons with cognitive decline hunger for meaningful connections. Rae-Lynn Ziegler addresses this need with two gifts for the price of one in her picture book that is a rich sensory feast as well as a recipe for side-by-side, emotionally present exchanges between best friends over the shared feelings and emotions of the pictures. Magic moments are sure to follow from this rich interaction. --Virginia Bell, MSW, co-author, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's CareThis book provides individuals living with dementia a failure-free, friendly, emotionally rich, and familiar way to open up and share using their remaining abilities. It is supportive communication at its best and provides the person with memory loss the opportunity to tell old stories, share momentary thoughts, reflect on what they are feeling, or absorb some new information that has value and meaning. Together with the data that Rae-Lynn Zeigler provides regarding the impact and effect of the book on people within an assisted living special care unit, this resource can be used to help guide others as they seek to connect and communicate with those experiencing memory loss. --Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care & Training SpecialistPersons with cognitive decline hunger for meaningful connections. Rae-Lynn Ziegler addresses this need with two gifts for the price of one in her picture book that is a rich sensory feast as well as a recipe for side-by-side, emotionally present exchanges between best friends over the shared feelings and emotions of the pictures. Magic moments are sure to follow from this rich interaction. --Virginia Bell, MSW, co-author, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's CareThis book provides individuals living with dementia a failure-free, friendly, emotionally rich, and familiar way to open up and share using their remaining abilities. It is supportive communication at its best and provides --Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care & Training SpecialistPersons with cognitive decline hunger for meaningful connections. Rae-Lynn Ziegler addresses this need with two gifts for the price of one in her picture book that is a rich sensory feast as well as a recipe for side-by-side, emotionally present exchanges between best friends over the shared feelings and emotions of the pictures. Magic moments are sure to follow from this rich interaction. --Virginia Bell, MSW, co-author, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's CareThis book provides individuals living with dementia a failure-free, friendly, emotionally rich, and familiar way to open up and share using their remaining abilities. It is supportive communication at its best and provides the person with memory loss the opportunity to tell old stories, share momentary thoughts, reflect on what they are feeling, or absorb some new information that has value and meaning. Together with the data that Rae-Lynn Zeigler provides regarding the impact and effect of the book on people within an assisted living special care unit, this resource can be used to help guide others as they seek to connect and communicate with those experiencing memory loss. --Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care & Training Specialist