If possible, it is also important for them to keep up with something that they did and enjoyed daily.
For my mother, it was playing her piano. We were lucky that the facility we moved her into was very small, 40 residents, and they let her bring her piano with her. She could play her piano whenever she wanted to...not in the middle of the night of course.
If we visited her on a so called "bad" day, we took her to her piano and had her play and in a matter of 5 to 10 minutes, her memory and general mood improved drastically.
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