NEAR ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- If you know someone with dementia, you might want to consider making them a "fidget quilt" for Christmas. Fidget quilts, also called sensory blankets, can help calm people ...

CEDAR FALLS — Women with dementia, just like their male counterparts, have trouble keeping their hands still. So when left to their own devices they’ll fidget with buttons or zippers, and sometimes ...

Nancy Hesters learned about a year ago how people with memory loss and anxiety caused by dementia can benefit from fidget quilts, which are small, colorful quilts covered with buttons, zippers and ...

Boredom and restlessness was no match for a ‘fidget quilt’ created by a Hotel-Dieu nurse and her mother. Wanting to help make Mary’s days more comfortable, Tonkin enlisted her mother, Julie, to create ...

Pull, fold. Pull, fold. Pull, fold. All day, every day, Barb Allen's 93-year-old mother would sit in her Nova Scotia long-term care home, pulling tissues out of a box and folding them — an obsessive ...

The women of Calvary United Church of Christ in Thomasville recently began an outreach ministry to individuals with Alzheimer’s and memory issues in local nursing homes by creating and distributing ...