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Fun Brain Games for Adults Workbook Series

Fun Brain Games for Adults Volume One

This workbook features a variety of activities to provide hours of engagement and brain stimulation for those with dementia and other cognitive disabilities. Exercises include: Identify the Items, Opposites, Color & Tell, I Spy, Categories, Rhyme Time, Word Searches, Mazes, Math, Calendar Activities, Finish the Phrase and much more. Ideal for those in Stages 4-5 of dementia as well as other special needs adults. The workbook uses large print, simple instructions, and clean, clear images.

Reviews of Brain Games for Adults:

Fun Brain Games for Adults is a missing piece that I have needed for years in my Speech-Language Pathology practice. It was so hard to find adult appropriate material that did not look childish and offend some of my patients. I love the variety of activities. I don’t have to carry around armfuls of books now, because I can treat multiple objectives from one source. I can also use the books to obtain responses in multiple ways: reading, writing, singing, story telling, problem solving, recall, etc. An added bonus is that this book is easily accessible and affordable for my families to purchase for their loved ones. I am excited about having this great tool to use in my home health speech therapy visits. . I can’t wait for all the new additions. I have ordered them for my entire Speech Therapy team.
Mandi
This is an excellent book for adults with cognitive decline. Assorted activities such as fill in blanks word association, etc. my family member has been enjoying it. I like that it doesn’t mention “dementia” on the cover or anywhere else. Perfect. I hope there will be more volumes coming out. Highly recommend.
Abby

Fun Brain Games for Adults Volume Two

The second installment of the series. This workbook features a variety of activities to provide hours of engagement and brain stimulation for those with dementia and other cognitive disabilities. Exercises include Identify the Items, Opposites, Color & Tell, I Spy, Categories, Rhyme Time, Word Searches, Mazes, Math, Calendar Activities, Finish the Phrase and much more. Ideal for those in Stages 4-5 of dementia as well as other special needs adults. The workbook uses large print, simple instructions, and clean, clear images.

Fun Word Search for Adults

This workbook features more than 100 word search puzzles. There are five difficulty levels ranging from Very Easy ( 7 x 7 with four words) to Very Hard (12 x 12 with 12 words). Ideal for those in Stages 4-5 of dementia as well as for other special needs adults. The workbook uses large print, simple instructions, and clean, clear images.

Fun Brain Games for Adults Sample Pack

A variety of activities to provide hours of engagement and brain stimulation for those with dementia and other cognitive disabilities.

Books on Grief

God’s Healing in Grief (Revised Edition)

Have you lost a loved one? The pain and grief run deep and you wonder how you’re ever going to make it. Everywhere you go and everything you see are constant reminders that your life will never be the same. You feel broken, helpless, and you’ve lost hope.
You need healing for your heart and healing in your grief.
God’s Healing in Grief is an Inductive Bible Study written to help you discover answers from God’s Word about grief:
  • What “comfort” can I expect from the Lord and how do I get it?
  • How can I possibly find joy and peace when my child, spouse, or parent is dead?
  • How can we truly heal when nothing can go back to “the way it was” before they died?

This 18-lesson study contains Bible study activities to help you learn Truth straight from the Bible. It’s designed for you to come to a place of healing by studying for yourself what Scripture says about these important topics. The lessons learned in this study will help gently bring you to the solid foundation of Christ and the true comfort found only in God and His Word.

In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). By studying God’s Healing in Grief, you will learn how only God can truly heal a broken heart.

My Journal of God’s Healing in Grief

This Companion Journal was designed to be used with the book God’s Healing in Grief. It will help you walk through your grief journey–process all the accompanying emotions, thoughts, and questions–by recording what God has done, is doing, and will do in your life. The Journal includes the following features:
  • “Before You Begin” activities to help you think through where you are in your grief journey and what you already know about the topic of the lesson
  • Just Journaling prompts to write what you learned and what you want to remember from the study
  • Space to make lists as directed by the Just Journaling prompts in the study
  • Space for you to write your thoughts, questions, and feelings about what you learn in the God’s Healing in Grief study
  • Space to write prayers and honestly express to God what is in your heart
  • Pages for lists and summaries of what you learned from studying God’s Word
  • Space for you to copy scripture passages that touched you in a special way

My Journey Through Grief into Grace

The Accident killed her son and four of his friends. Her life was changed forever that day. Kathleen began to write about her grief. She wrote about her Journey through Grief into Grace. Her posts were honest and raw. Here is her story. Her story of how faith in a living, loving God helped her heal after the death of her son. Written in a diary format, “My Journey through Grief into Grace” gives readers insight into the emotional ups and downs of grief after the death of a child. It will give you hope that healing, even after such a tragedy, is available for all.

What Bereaved Parents Want You to Know (but may not say)

When a parent loses a child, friends and family want to help. Rarely, however, do we know what to do. In this short book, Kathleen Duncan shares some of what she learned after the death of her twenty-year-old son in a car wreck. Kathleen writes about her own grief journey and about healing with the help of a living, loving God on her blog www.kathleenbduncan.com. With honesty and transparency, Kathleen shares her journey through grief into grace. She also shares what she has learned as she walks alongside friends and family who have lost children of all ages, some to miscarriage or stillbirth, others to accidents, illness, suicide and even murder. This informative book is designed to help grieving parents. It will also be of value to those of us who wish to help those who grieve.

Other Titles

My Life Story: A tool to help you leave a lasting legacy for future generations

This workbook features prompts to help you write your life story in your own words and provides you with space to record your stories, add photos or newspaper clippings, as well as space to share advice for those who come after you.

Your family may be able to recreate a genealogy. They may have pictures of you as a child, in the military, at your first job, or driving your first car. But having your memories, your impressions, and your thoughts on the happenings of your life of back in the day is something only you can provide to them Your life story is priceless.

Books Edited by Kathleen B. Duncan

Dementia with Grace: A New, Positive Way of Dealing with Behaviors in People with Dementia, Second Edition

Are you dealing with problem behaviors as you struggle to care for your loved one with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia? You are not alone. I promise.

This revised, updated version of the bestselling original adds clarity to a proven system of positive behavior management using GRACE! Including more chapters, case studies, and words of wisdom from our Facebook group and beyond, this second edition adds to an already outstanding source of knowledge and practical, actionable techniques to make dementia caregiving for a person with behaviors a little easier! (Not always easy, but easier!)

The techniques you will find in this guide will help you navigate the rough days and steer you toward more graceful days. This approach to behavior management has been developed over the years working with people with dementia. You will come to understand HOW to manage the behavior by learning WHY certain behaviors occur and WHAT you can do to keep problem behaviors at a minimum. Using a proven, systematic approach to behavior management based on the acronym, G.R.A.C.E., you will discover the meaning behind each step and discover how extending and receiving grace can help both your loved one receiving care and you as a caregiver.

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