Name: Tori Bahara
Activity Title: Baking cookies
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Equipment needed: baking sheets, bowl, mixing spoons/whisk, measuring cups and instructions
on paper.
Activity Description – The objective of this activity is to enhance cognitive stimulation by
reading and following the baking instructions. This activity is to as well enhance hand eye
coordination by using different utensils to bake cookies. Participants will be given a set of
instructions stating in orders how to prepare the cookies.
1. Start by providing the participants with all baking equipment and instructions needed.
2. Once all ingredients are set out the participants can begin by reading the baking
instructions
3. Baking instructions:
a. Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt,
1 cup (2 sticks) butter softened, 3/4 cup granulated sugar ,3/4 cup packed brown
sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 large eggs, 2 cups (12-ounce package) Semi-
Sweet Chocolate Morsels.
b. Preheat oven to 375 ° F
c. Combine dry ingredients in small bowl, flour, baking soda and salt.
d. In larger bowl beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until
creamy.
e. One at a time add eggs and beat well.
f. Gradually add in dry ingredients from the small bowl into the large bowl.
g. Once flour mixture is mixed in well, add in chocolate chips.
h. After chocolate chips are mixed in create teaspoon size portions of cookie batter
and place onto the baking sheets.
i. Then, place the baking sheets in oven for 10 minutes.
j. Take cookies out of the oven after 10 minutes and let cool for 2 minutes and
enjoy.
4. Once cookies are done cooling, participants can enjoy the cookies they made.
Primary social interaction pattern(s) – The primary interaction pattern is extra individual if there
is only one participant. If there are multiple participants than the activity is an aggregate
interaction pattern because it is one person with object, near others but not interacting.
Adaptation: Dementia is not a specific disease; it is a group of conditions that can cause
impairment of judgment and memory lost. Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells that
affect their ability to communicate. For example, Alzheimer’s disease is caused by brain changes
that lead to cell damage, this leads to dementia. Someone with early onset dementia may
experience symptoms such as forgetting material that was just read, losing or misplacing objects,
remembering names when introduced to people, coming up with the right word and etc. An
adaption that could be used for someone who has early onset dementia is a white board that has
all written instructions of the activity. This could be helpful because if the participant is forgetful
of the task, they were just completing they can have a remaindering that is written out on a large
white board. Another adaption that could be used is rubber grip handles that can be placed in
different utensils. This is helpful because dementia can have a physical impact on someone, and
this can affect their fine motor skills. These utensil grips are helpful because it gives the
participant a better grip on their utensils.
Participant: 75-year-old woman diagnosed with early onset dementia.
