Senior Circles: TimeSlips program helps recognize the strengths of people with dementia

Here is what the stories say: "She is riding an ostrich and singing to herself. 'Imagination is funny. It makes a rainy day sunny.'" "He's going to the land of ice cream and cookies…to the land of peppermint airplanes." "Their eyes are laughing, saying listen to me!" Based on pictures presented to them, three different groups of people with dementia created these parts of three stories.

By Pat Farmer, paf1@patuxent.com 410-332-6653

May 3, 2012