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Enjoy the benefits and reduced stress that come from reconnecting people with dementia to lifelong activities they love. Using a strength-based approach, this guide shows step by step how to design meaningful, individualized activities that can be performed by a person with memory loss as independently as possible. Helpful assessment and implementation tools guide your efforts to identify a personaEUR (TM)s optimal leisure activities and then tailor them to current skill levels. The resulting activity plans will effectively promote the well-being and self-identity of each person with memory loss. Downloadable resources include: Communication strategies and conversations starters Assessment forms Step-by-step implementation guides Sample activities adapted for early, middle, and late stages of dementia.