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Activities You Can Do
Make food together
Have fun cooking together, try new recipes, and savor the process. 🍳🍰🍴
Cook, bake or grill a favourite recipe, or try making something new together.
Need inspiration? Here are some easy, fun baking ideas to tempt your tastebuds.
Break the activity down into small steps. For example, if you’re making cupcakes, you could bake them one day and decorate them the next.
Taste the ingredients and sample the results (this is often the best part).
Cooking can create conversations galore. Chat about favourite memories, funniest gaffes, future recipes to try, or options to experiment and make it your own.
Go for ice cream
Get ice cream together, try old favorites and new flavors, and make a fun bucket list. 🍦🍨📋
Stay local for your favourite flavours, or check out a shop you haven’t been to yet.
Recreate that ice cream treat or float from when you were a kid.
Grown-ups often love the add-ons, like cherries, sprinkles and fudge sauce, too.
Mix up classic favourites with new flavours.
Create a bucket list of ice cream treats or shops to explore together.
Try gelato, or some of the latest concoctions that will tempt your tastebuds.
Take a drive
Go for a drive, enjoy the sky, have a picnic, listen to music, and catch a local sports game. 🚗🌅🍔🎶⚽
Watch the sun come up (or go down). Our skies are legendary for calming, dreamy vistas and stargazing.
Ever played 'what shape is that cloud'?
Take a picnic lunch to enjoy at a great spot (even if it’s just a quick sandwich and drink from the drive thru).
Try tailgating if you find a scenic stop.
Need ideas for a short road trip within an hour of the city?
Add in some great tunes for background music.
Stop and watch a sports team playing in your community.
Reduce your Risk
And no, we don’t mean get a better phone. You’ve heard it before, exercise counts. It delivers more oxygen to your brain and supports the nerve cells responsible for learning, memory and decision-making.
Sleep is essential for your brain to rest, recharge and perform key functions to keep your body healthy.
We know you know this. But at the risk of being a broken record, (and to give you that friendly nudge), be sure to get enough plant-based foods into your belly. Many doctors promote the Mediterranean diet for healthy brains.
Connect with people, have conversations and make new connections. Your mood, as well as your brain, will thank you.
Easier said than done, right? It’s important to do self-care, set realistic goals and boundaries, improve your time management and more. But it’s not always that simple. Feeling overwhelmed? We can help you with that.
When you do things that are challenging for your brain, you help form new connections and increase your ‘cognitive reserve’. Stretch your brain beyond the things you do everyday. If it’s easy, familiar or repetitive, try doing something new.
Brain-Stretching Suggestions
Challenge Your Norms
Do daily tasks with your opposite hand. If you’re right-handed, brush your teeth with your left, and so on.
Learn Something New
Embark on a journey of exploration, like learning a new language, mastering a musical instrument, delving into a fresh hobby or sport, or enriching your knowledge through classes and workshops.
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If you have young kids, it can be tough to explain symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, particularly if you’re struggling to understand it yourself.
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Offering choices, asking yes or no questions, and breaking things down into steps can help.
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