Puzzles To Remember: Springbok Donates Specialized Alzheimer’s Puzzles to Fifty Alzheimer’s Facilities

Puzzles To Remember

PUZZLES TO REMEMBER is a youth led 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through jigsaw puzzles, cognitive engagement, and social connection. Led by Executive Director Hailey Richman, Puzzles To Remember has distributed more than 236,000 puzzles valued at over $2 million to more than 5,000 memory care communities, nursing homes, veterans facilities, senior centers, and other organizations across all 50 states and 16 countries. Our programs have benefited more than one million people while diverting approximately 148 tons of puzzles from landfills through donation and reuse. Puzzles To Remember also promotes intergenerational connection through Puzzle Time, which brings young people together with individuals living with dementia for shared puzzle solving, conversation, and companionship. Our mission is to provide engaging and purposeful activities that promote connection, participation, and joy while enhancing the quality of life of those affected by dementia. Donate Puzzles If you have puzzles you would like to donate, please contact us at Puzzles2Remember@gmail.com. We will help identify a location where your puzzles can benefit individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Donation acknowledgment letters are available upon request.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Springbok Donates Specialized Alzheimer’s Puzzles to Fifty Alzheimer’s Facilities

By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

Springbok has produced four new images for their specialized line of Springbok’s PuzzlesToRemember, made specifically to meet the needs of Alzheimer’s patients. You may click on the name of the puzzle under each image to order that puzzle.

Coral Carnival

Country Mill

Crimson Road

Durango Express

As part of Springbok Cares, their program to give back to society, they are also supplying these puzzles free, this week, to fifty Alzheimer’s facilities that I have chosen.

Alzheimer’s caregivers, both in facilities and in home care, attest to the value of these puzzles as a tool to promote positive interaction between patients and caregivers, as well as a mood-lifting tool that provides the patients with a sense of accomplishment that lasts well beyond the puzzle-making session.

Max Wallack is a student at Boston University Academy. His great grandmother, Gertrude, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Max is the founder of PUZZLES TO REMEMBER. PTR is a project that provides puzzles to nursing homes and veterans institutions that care for Alzheimer's and dementia patients.