How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats. Free tutorials and ideas. Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends.

Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult. The size of your fidget blankets is up to you. The dimensions below make a lap mat as per the photo that can be tied at the waist or positioned on a table with velcro. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients.

These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism. Updated 2016 alzheimer s fidgeting and mojo uprising. My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt.

Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies. Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. A fidget quilt or activity blanket is a lap quilt that provides sensory and tactile stimulation for the restless hands of someone with alzheimer s and or other forms of dementia add or an autism spectrum disability.

She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital. Sensory mats or fidget blankets provide a soothing and stimulating activity for people living with dementia or recovering from strokes. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017. The fidget chicks make sensory mats for dementia patients.

How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy. Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users.