{"id":1844,"date":"2015-01-19T18:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2015-01-19T18:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T00:05:35","slug":"activity-mat-provides-tactical-stimulation-and-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Activity Mat provides tactical stimulation and comfort."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8288_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1846 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8288_2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8288_2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8288_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8288_2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8288_2-41x55.jpg 41w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finding a worthwhile activity is an endless pursuit when caring for someone with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. \u00a0 The need to provide stimulation for a chair or bed bound person may be satisfied with an\u00a0<a title=\"Activity Mat\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B0WiAKMpFF5BclpVMlJ4ci1oeXM\/edit\">activity mat<\/a>. \u00a0They can be purchased or<a title=\"Activity Mat video\" href=\"http:\/\/video.wpt.org\/video\/2365346162\/\"> made with great variety and creativity<\/a>. I enjoyed sitting by my mother&#8217;s bedside today while she held onto the beads and other attachments on the activity mat as we both listened to music with our earbuds on. \u00a0We were both content and peaceful as we heard easy listening music on Pandora radio. \u00a0At one point, she gave a big sigh, while resting her head on the pillow. A nice way to spend the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Finding a worthwhile activity is an endless pursuit when caring for someone with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. \u00a0 The need to provide stimulation for a chair or bed bound person may be satisfied with an\u00a0activity mat. \u00a0They can be purchased or made with great variety and creativity. I enjoyed sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8,14,21],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-education","category-links","category-personal","tag-activity-mat-for-alzheimers-disease"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cxZR-tK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}