RELATE, MOTIVATE, APPRECIATE - Alzheimer's Australia

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The person may need some more
instructions at any time: keep
demonstrating and pointing at what you
are asking them to do.
You may want to:
• just look at pictures together. You can
talk about what’s in the picture. What
colours? What kind of things or
people? How many? Ask questions.
Let the person point at certain
aspects of the image
• change the labels to easier ones. If
likes/dislikes is too difficult, consider
sorting by colour (e.g. blue/red) or to
make it a bit easier use dark/light.
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You could:
• use more complex labels, such as
names of countries or cities, or brand
names of products.
If you are sorting football teams you
can sort by team, by city of origin, or
by who made the finals last year
• use more templates
• prepare questions to stimulate
reminiscence (if the person is still
quite verbal)
• make a collage of the pictures – put it
on the wall.
Alternatives to this activity
If playing cards was a favourite game of the
person, consider sorting cards (develop special
templates). You can sort by colour or by suit. If that
is too easy, you can try and play their favourite
game. If they played poker, for example, you can
create examples of each type of hand (e.g. a pair,
a straight, a full house). You can ask the person to
name a hand (e.g. flush, three of a kind), or to
match the hand with a label (e.g. ‘flush’, full
house’), or to say which of two hands is the better
hand (e.g. a flush is better than three of a kind).
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