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Feature Article:

The Flowers of Memory Garden

by Patricia E. Moniot

 

     My friend Mary Helen Smith has created a ministry of helping Alzheimer’s patients in a unique way.  She puts together and takes to nursing homes jigsaw puzzles whose scenes remind patients of happy memories; one may see depictions/pictures of  an old-fashioned kitchen, a trolley, a water closet, a hummingbird, and a young person reading a Bible under a tree.  She reports that these pictures bring happy tears to the eyes of Alzheimer’s patients who can remember, if only briefly, happier times.

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