ny resources available at the time, so we decided to see what would make her happy. We began by creating a space for her to be helpful in areas where she was still able to participate.
For example, Mama loved to fold towels. She had a specific way she wanted them folded (a trait that she passed on to me). I found that if I handed Mama a small load of warm towels from the dryer while she was sitting on the couch, she would begin folding them. It didn’t take too long before she had a nice stack of folded towels. Even after she lost the meaning of the words, “fold towels”, I could simply hand them to her, and her muscle memory would take over, and she would fold them.
