The Picture Book of A Day in Your Garden: Activity for Seniors with dementia, Alzheimer's, impaired memory, aging

Do you find it challenging at times to engage your loved one with dementia? To find something you can share with them that encourages peaceful interaction?
This book can help you with those challenges.
The Picture Book of A Day in Your Garden is a collection of stimulating images showing a wide variety of vegetables you would find in everyone’s backyard gardens. This picture book shows the beauty of well-kept gardens and veggies on the vine. These garden setting pictures could help your loved one recall fond memories of days spent tending to their vegetable gardens in their own backyard. Wonderful for reflection and reminiscing these images of fresh and growing tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, strawberries, corn, peppers, and more will capture your loved ones attention and take them back to a familiar place. Viewing images is known to be therapeutic in reducing anxiety and rekindling memories in older people, helping foster more fulfilling relationships.
Why do seniors enjoy our picture books?

• Our picture books include great visual imagery that can be used to stimulate memories and start conversations.
• Picture books are accessible regardless of anyone's ability to understand print/text.
• Picture books are a wonderful activity for someone with moderate to severe cognitive impairment, a short attention span, or limited communication skills due to dementia or stroke.
• The big, bright pictures could spark happy memories or help them connect with the world through easily recognizable objects.
• Our picture books are lightweight making them easy to hold, high-quality, and adult in nature, with nothing to distract your loved one from enjoying the photos themselves.

Families and friends, caregivers and assisted living staff can share this book with the people they care for. A picture book is an excellent activity for seniors with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease or recovering from a stroke. They’re especially great for visitors (even children!) who don’t know how to connect with a loved one. Seniors with eyesight or strength challenges who find it difficult to hold a heavy book or read long paragraphs of text will also enjoy this book.

SUGGESTIONS FOR CAREGIVERS
• Sit beside your loved one in a quiet place that is free of distractions.
• Allow them to hold the book if possible, and also turn the pages, which will enable them to become more engaged in the book.
• Put a pillow in their lap to support the book as you thumb through it together.
• Start by asking questions that are easy to answer maybe about one of the pictures that catches their attention. Then move to more open-ended questions.
• Leave this book in an accessible place to allow your loved one to pick it up on their own when you’re no