The Easy and Relaxing Memory Activity Book for Adults: Includes Relaxing Memory Activities, Easy Puzzles, Brain Games and More

We are all focused a bit more on brain health these days and activities that can help us retain what we have. I have loved doing little workbooks since I was in elementary school. Puzzles are a lot of fun and can be a diversion from things you want to just not think about a while. This is a great stress buster! This edition has some association activities, word find, find the hidden objects, some quantitative skills and brain teasers. I like a variety of puzzles so I can be sure to stimulate various portions of the brain. My daughter and I will do some of these together with a little bit of competitive spirit and enjoy sharing that time among us. This is a great book with lots of different things to do that will wake up your brain and keep you thinking. Reasonable cost and great past time. I got a couple of these for a friend who was hospitalized and he loved them! Get some for you and those you care about.

Great puzzles

I got this for my mom after she had a traumatic brain injury and needed brain surgery. When I got it for her she still wasn’t super aware and wasn’t talking at the time so I couldn’t gauge her cognitive abilities yet. It took about 5 months post injury for her to even open the book and have it make sense, but since then she can’t put it down. She loves it! Her speech therapist loves it too! There’s a wonderful variety of puzzles. My mom really likes how there’s different categories of puzzles and different themes. Only reason for the 4 instead of 5 stars is because there are a few typos that have tripped up my mom and with her having aphasia, she wasn’t sure if the book was wrong or if she was wrong. Knocked it on start because that’s something I’d hope for the author to catch in future prints/publications. Overall, great book. I feel like it has helped my mom tons in her recovery.

Fun to play. Helps memory

Seems to be almost preschool level in my opinion

Product is up to expectations. Works well for me.

I'm 74 with the mind that doesn't always want to work as it once did. I bought this hoping that it could help me regain some of my missing memories & keep me sharp so I'd experience no more loss. I'm disappointed about 2 things. It's not spiral bound so it's harder to use. And it says it's large print, but there are parts that I can't read due to print that is too si. I haven't written in it yet as I'm not sure if I'll keep it. Depends on if I'm able to find one that better matches my desires.

My elderly parents (in their 90s) live at home with me, they're mostly independent, they can follow normal daily conversations easily. Their memory and cognitive abilities are in early stage of decline. This book has about 100 puzzles and worksheets to fill in - good variety of challenges which match their cognitive level perfectly .. just hard enough that they need to use most or all of their intellect to complete each puzzle which gives them great satisfaction. They do the puzzles together at the dining room table with my guidance. For most of the puzzles, I ask mom to read the instructions out loud then I explain what to do if they need clarification. I also need to guide them through most puzzles so they know what to do but I don't give them the answers. There are answer pages in the back of the book for each puzzle. When I take them to a restaurant, I take a word search book or this puzzle book and two pens and they work on a word search page while we wait for the food to arrive - so much better than sitting there doing nothing. When your family member finishes the puzzle book, you can write your own puzzles using the same format as the puzzles in the book. Ex: Fill in the blank for famous expressions. "The ____ that broke the camel's back." You can write a list of expressions with one or two blanks in each one. If your family member has memory loss, you can photocopy the puzzle pages and use the same pages multiple times. I also bought the book: Decades of 100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors. My parents really enjoy reading these simple fictional stories which are written with descriptive details to bring back memories. Ex: "She picked up the phone off the wall hook in the kitchen and dialed her friend's number which she knew by heart." Each story is 1-2 pgs long. The stories are in chronological order from the 1950s to 1990s with 20 stories for each decade. You can read these stories to your family member at home, in hospital, in assisted living, in hospice. I got two bookmarks, wrote dad's name on one, mom's name on the other, so they can each mark where they finish reading. I plan to buy more puzzle and story books for my parents. So I recommend, this puzzle book the story book and large print word search books.

Exactly what I needed: simple, relaxing memory activities that don’t feel overwhelming. The layout is clear, the difficulty is gentle, and it’s perfect for winding down. Great for daily practice without stress.

I really liked this activity book because it was fun, challenging but doable! I am a senior and like to keep my mind busy and this book has a lot of variety of puzzles! I plan to get more like it in future

Great, really helped me and mum to do some puzzles together

Activities are really chosen well and easy to follow instructions. Bought it for my mom with memory issues. She is enjoying it.

Excellent relaxation