This article from Suite 101 lists helpful ideas and activities to do with your elderly loved one this Thanksgiving Holiday.  We at Basic American Medical would like to wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving.

If your loved one has Alzheimer’s or any other dementing illness, he or she can still help in the kitchen. Stirring batters, pouring in chocolate chips to the cookie dough, and placing little candies on cakes and other goodies are helpful ways of including your loved ones. If your elderly loved one is capable of baking by herself, you can do one thing, while she does another.

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