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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Left to right: Scott Leier (Seniors' Safety Society board member), Michelle Parker (Seniors' Safety Society co-ordinator), Beth McBrine (The 2 Fidgeteers), Cathy Dunbar (The 2 Fidgeteers), and Sgt.