Description
What others are saying about Senior Smart Puzzles
It can be difficult to initiate conversation with some elders. Their immediate world has become very limited. Memories from the past can open doors to communication. Senior Smart Puzzles encourages reminiscing with scenes from the first half of the century. Illustrations include an old school, gas station and cars, an outdoor marble game, WW II military men, a covered bridge, telephone switchboard and many more memory triggers. Remember Babe Ruth, Clark Gable, glass milk bottles and the ringer washer?
Children, grandchildren and great grandchildren can have fun playing these games with seniors of the “greatest generation”. All ages can participate in this entertainment. Baby Boomers will remember Elvis and those saddle shoes they used to wear. Grandpa can tell everyone the make and model of the cars. Maybe he and Grandma can share a few stories about the vehicles they used to drive. You might be inspired to teach the younger family members a few yo-yo tricks. Laughing, talking and sharing together is the best brain booster of all!
As a massage therapist, the author, Lindy McClean, noticed a need among some of her elderly clients. They wanted books with brain-stimulating activities, but were finding the adult puzzles had become too difficult to solve. They didn’t want to buy children’s books. So McClean created Senior Smart Puzzles.
Illustrator James Cloutier has given Senior Smart Puzzles a fun personality. He used realistic drawings, authentic to the time period. Cloutier took a special interest in this project because his father died of Alzheimer’s and his mother lived in an assisted living facility the last year of her life. He said he never knew what to take to his parents when he went to visit them. Cloutier feels that Senior Smart Puzzles fills a void in senior resources.
Quoted fromSenior Citizens Magazine
Barbara –
Just what I was looking for!
Thank you for providing a product like SENIOR SMART PUZZLES. It has a variety of puzzles and activities that provide confidence and pleasure to my loved one.
I plan to order the second book at a later date. Thanks again.
Joanne –
Fair to Good
I like the book, but it was not appropriate for my dad who had a hard time with the black and white images when looking for the multiple images of the “pen”” for example. He is in an advanced stages of Alzheimer’s and had a difficult time concentrating.”
Marianne –
I was quite impressed
I visited with mom today and took the Senior Smart Puzzles book with me
so we could enjoy the activities while waiting for washing machine cycle to end.
I was quite surprised that mom was more than willing to grab the book and actually seek out the differences to the best of her ability. She did pretty good and I was quite impressed.
I am very happy knowing a site such as yours exists!!
~Marianne
Teresa –
Find the differences kept my mom’s attention
Glad to be able to participate in something with mom which stimulates her brain to process things which is not an easy feat for those with dementia.
Iris –
Excellent picture correct era for our Mother
Good for the brain without making the person have to think too hard.