Bring out the best in each person with dementia each day with more than 140 versatile, easy-to-implement ""Best Friends"" activities. The approace means thatanyone on staff can turn any interaction with a resident or client into an activity that satisfies essential physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities is chock full of inspiring and innovative ideas on how to:

- convert everyday activities into those with "knack"

- create new activities out of tried-and-true activities

- provide activities between structured programs/events

- increase self-esteem

- adapt activities for people with late dementia

- provide opportunities for connecting to others

- create intergenerational experiences

- use the person's life story in any activity

- make activities out of personal care

- conduct activities specifically for men

- fill evening hours to alleviate sundowning

- provide "take-away" activities for family caregivers to use at home

- incorporate exercise into activities

- use the Internet to expand and enrich activities