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MEternally Favorite Things Memory Kits
Through reminiscence, we find comfort in our favorite things and form connections with people and the past. Favorite Things DVDs were created for the enjoyment of those with dementia, their caregivers, and family in order to provide comfort and inspire connections and conversation through reminiscence. Can be used for individual or group reminiscence. Check out the list of available kits here.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Un relato que evoca a las grandes voces latinoamericanas
y abraza vida y costumbres dentro de un ingenio.
Para Catalina, los días transcurren en una hipnótica calma en la hacienda de Colutla. Lo único que sacude su parsimonia son los recuerdos reprimidos de la infancia que la sorprenden cada vez con más frecuencia.
La inesperada llegada de Joaquín, un extraño trotamundos, vendrá a inyectarle vida, sentido y entusiasmo a sus días. Poco se percata...
42) Turn of mind
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime.
Author
Publisher
QEB
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Join intrepid, but forgetful, Explorer Ben who sets off on a big adventure through jungle, caves and deserts on different methods of transport...but keeps he forgetting things along the way. Can you help Ben try to remember the items? Learn memorisation tricks along the way and see what you can help Ben remember! ?A fun memory game adventure full of new memory tips to learn!
44) Crystal line
Author
Series
Crystal singer trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Killashandra Ree agrees to sacrifice her memory for the opportunity to join the Heptite Guild of crystal singers and prays that her heart will remember what her mind is forgetting.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Eliza Spalding Warren was taken hostage by Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her husband wants to move, which will mean returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza must face her childhood trauma and find peace with what's left"--
47) Lavender
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It's a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house...and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her...
50) A better brain at any age: the holistic way to improve your memory, reduce stress, sharpen your wits
Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In A Better Brain at Any Age, Sondra Kornblatt, along with the experts she has interviewed, helps readers put their heads on straight through healthy activities for the body (exercise, healthy food consumption, and relaxation) and through specifi c activities to boost brain power like movement, eye rolls, supplements, and making environmental changes. Each of the seven chapters ¿ Body-Mind Connection; Environmental Support; Food and Supplements;...
52) Book of days
Author
Language
English
Description
Young Cameron Vaux's mind is slipping. Memories of his wife, killed two years earlier in a car accident, are vanishing just as his dad predicted they would. His father tells Cameron that to save his mind he must find 'the book,' the past and future record of every soul on earth. When an obscure clue leads Cameron to a small central Oregon town, he meets enigmatic Taylor Stone, a possible guide to finding the book which seems to carry secrets far deeper...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Howard Gardner argues that a principle goal of developing the human mind must be "disciplinary with memorization. At the same time, he illustrates how intuitive theories of the "unschooled mind" make disciplinary understanding both counter-intuitive and difficult to develop-from the sciences and math, to the arts and humanities. Moving toward the goal of key understandings across the academic, artistic, and even moral domains, Gardner demonstrates...
54) The fire falls
Author
Series
Merida volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
Merida accidentally wishes for Ryan Macintosh to forget who he is and a Fairy grants it. Now its up to her to get him back to normal by having him bath in the water at the top of Fire Falls.
55) Recursion
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"New York City cop Barry Sutton is investigating the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Meanwhile, neuroscientist Helena Smith has dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let people preserve their most precious memories. The Syndrome, however, attacks not only minds, but the very fabric of the past. As its...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her...
Author
Publisher
Elephant Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Do people tell you that brain fog and losing your memory is all a normal part of aging? Modern diets, a stressful lifestyle, and environmental toxins all take their toll on the brain. The good news is the brain is extremely adaptable and wants to get well: you simply have to know how to feed and care for your brain. Learn how to spot brain degeneration and stop it before it's too late. Kharrazian teaches you strategies to save and improve brain function,...
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