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    Sensory stimulation using the five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste can help people with Alzheimer's by triggering positive memories from their past. Everyday objects and activities that provide familiar sensory inputs, like photos, scents, foods, and textures, can elicit emotional responses and memories. A simple example is creating a theme using visual cues, sounds, textures, scents and foods related to a place someone fondly remembers, like a summer spent in Cape Cod, to stimulate recollection and improve mood.

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    Sensory stimulation using the five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste can help people with Alzheimer's by triggering positive memories from their past. Everyday objects and activities that provide familiar sensory inputs, like photos, scents, foods, and textures, can elicit emotional responses and memories. A simple example is creating a theme using visual cues, sounds, textures, scents and foods related to a place someone fondly remembers, like a summer spent in Cape Cod, to stimulate recollection and improve mood.

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    Sensory stimulation using the five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste can help people with Alzheimer's by triggering positive memories from their past. Everyday objects and activities that provide familiar sensory inputs, like photos, scents, foods, and textures, can elicit emotional responses and memories. A simple example is creating a theme using visual cues, sounds, textures, scents and foods related to a place someone fondly remembers, like a summer spent in Cape Cod, to stimulate recollection and improve mood.

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    Using everyday sensory stimulation can help people with Alzheimer’s, it can help bring out

    positive emotions and memories. Sensory stimulation is based on our 5 senses which are hearing

    , seeing, tasting , smelling, and touch. Looking around your home most objects supply us with

    sensory input. Those family photos represent visual memories and expressions of happiness.

    Sensory stimulation works best with familiar objects; it can be as simple as cooking a familiar

    tasting or smelling meal that reminds someone of his or her childhood home, painting a room a

    comforting color or giving a gentle massage. Providing sensory stimulation can be a simple thing

    to do. As dementia progresses in a person, it affects the brain’s occipital lobe, impacting a

    person’s visual field and depth perception. An Alzheimer’s patient can’t take in all the visual

    cues we use to understand our environment. For example, did they spend summers in Cape Cod?

    We’ll use that as our example theme. So for sight Present laminated photos of Cape Cod beaches,

    or familiar landmarks and restaurants, Sound Play sounds of the beach through a sound machine,

    computer, or phone, Touch Offer a bowl or bin filled with sand and shells, Smell Ignite a scented

    candle or scent diffuser with aroma of sun tan oil, Taste Share food they may have enjoyed in

    Cape Cod, like clam chowder or iced tea. In this research the participants are an elderly resident

    with dementia and a therapist who works with that population. The author did the research by

    allowing the person to explore and experience each item. Talk about the theme with a few simple

    words that will trigger their memories allow the memories to surface and the smiles to emerge.

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