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This document describes a word search activity to help improve cognitive function for seniors and those with early onset dementia. The activity involves finding hidden words within a grid within a 10 minute time limit. One adaptation suggested is decreasing the number of words to find from the typical 10-12 to 4-6, to make the activity easier for someone with early dementia. The primary interaction is intraindividual as the activity takes place within one's own mind.

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Activity 3

This document describes a word search activity to help improve cognitive function for seniors and those with early onset dementia. The activity involves finding hidden words within a grid within a 10 minute time limit. One adaptation suggested is decreasing the number of words to find from the typical 10-12 to 4-6, to make the activity easier for someone with early dementia. The primary interaction is intraindividual as the activity takes place within one's own mind.

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Autumn DiNenna

1. Activity Title: Word Search

2. Sources for your activity and for your adaptations (APA citations)

○ Three cognitive games for seniors that you have to try - Port St. lucie

Hospital, INC.: Florida mental health services. (2020, June 03). Retrieved

April 09, 2021, from

https://www.portstluciehospitalinc.com/3-cognitive-games-for-seniors-that-

you-have-to-try/

○ Brain-boosting games that can help ward off dementia. (n.d.). Retrieved

April 09, 2021, from

https://www.claretianassociates.org/blog/brain-boosting-games-that-can-h

elp-ward-off-dementia

○ Younger/early-onset alzheimer's. (n.d.). Retrieved April 09, 2021, from

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers/younger-early

-onset

3. Equipment needed:

○ pen/pencil

○ Online word search maker or make it on your own, then print it out

○ A timer or clock to set a time limit

4. Activity Description: The object of this activity is to focus on cognitive thinking.

Word searches have been proven to help patients who have dementia, and

alzhermiers. They are proven to help people who are aging keeping their minds
active and engaged. They are easily adaptable to make hard or easy depending

on the patient.

○ You will have 10 minutes to look through the word search and try to find 12

words. All the words will be within the same category so it is easier to look

for them.

○ The words can either be forward, backward, and diagonal

○ The goal of this activity is to find all the words/ or most of them under the

time limit

5. Primary social interaction pattern(s) (activity analysis):

○ The primary social interaction is intraindividual. This is because action is taking

place within the mind of a person and one part of the body.

6. Adaptation: One researched adaptation specific to a disability group assigned for

each of the four (4) uploaded activities. This is not for the purpose of leading

activities; this is only for the purpose of submitting activities.

○ Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving

and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily

life. Early onset dementia is when you first get it and symptoms aren’t

normally severe yet. Word searches have been proven to help decrease

symptoms of early dementia, and help keep your mind active. Depending

on the patient's symptoms one adaptation would be modifying how many

words to find and how much time. Word searches tend to have 10-12

words to find. To adapt this activity we could decrease the words to 4-6 to

make it smaller and easier for the patient.

7. Participant: 75-year-old woman diagnosed with early onset dementia.

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