At Home Activity Booklets
The Alzheimer Society Hastings - Prince Edward is now offering free in-home activity kits that can be mailed right to your door. Kits include an assortment of printed worksheet activities that are sure to delight and engage your brains!
Music for Me
iPod/Music Lending Program
Contact your local Education & Support Coordinator today to request your personalized music player. Donations of used iPod’s/MP3 players and cash are always gratefully accepted.
Webinar: Long Distance Caregiving
This webinar will focus on providing care partners with strategies to providing care while in isolation. It will also highlight important COVID-19 precautions and guidelines along with the implications in caring for someone living with dementia.
Upcoming sessions: May 6 & June 9.
Online Program: Come Sing with Us!
Music Therapy Group hosted by the Alzheimer Society of Toronto
Come Sing with Us! Join Certified Music Therapist, David Macintosh from Miya Music Therapy, every Monday from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm for 8-weeks of Online Music Therapy!
Music therapy supports health and wellbeing through the purposeful use of music and the therapeutic relationship. Sessions will consist of singing, movement to music, breathing, discussion, and reflection.
Online Program: Mindfulness and Meditation Workshop
Caring for a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges; by learning to be in full awareness of what is transpiring in the mind & body, one can shift the quality of all experiences. By practicing mindful living, you become more authentic in all your actions. Join The Alzheimer Society of Toronto for a new online program: Mindfulness and Meditation. Learn the 5 Elements of the Mindfulness Self-Care Model, mindfulness grounding techniques and supports, meditation basics and enjoy a guided secular meditation followed by a group discussion.
Sessions will run every Wednesday from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm on May 6, 13, 20 & 27 and June 3.
Online Video Art class with ASHPE's Petra Lepage!
Friday May 8th 2pm-3pm
Create your own magic flowers like in the photo below. No previous artistic talent is needed to enjoy this activity. The supplies needed are:
1. 9x12 paper or cardboard
2. Watercolour paints and acrylic paints
3. Glitter (if available)
4. Q-tips (5-8 secured together by tape or elastic) and other to be used individually
5. Wine corks or round shapes that can be used to create circles (Small round lids, kitchen sponge cut into round shapes, bingo dabber)
6. Paint brushes or foam brushes in various widths
All of these supplies are available at the Dollarama (which is still open).