11/10/2025
🌼 Mindfulness for a Person with Alzheimer’s: “Sensing the Moment”
Goal: 🌸 Ground in the present using the five senses — no need for memory, reasoning, or complex instructions.
🕰️ Time: 3–5 minutes
✨ How to guide it:
🪷 Set a calm tone
Sit together somewhere quiet. Use a gentle, reassuring voice.
“Let’s take a moment just to notice what’s around us.”
👀 See: “What colors do you see?”
👂 Hear: “Can you hear the birds or the hum of something nearby?”
✋ Touch: “Can you feel your hands on your lap? Or the chair beneath you?”
👃 Smell: “Do you notice any smells — maybe coffee, or flowers?”
👅 Taste (optional): Offer a sip of tea or a mint and invite them to notice it.
💫 Pause for calm
Sit quietly for a few breaths. Let them simply *be* with what they sense.
💖 Close gently
“That was nice — just being here for a little while.”
🧠 Why it works:
This exercise helps reduce anxiety by focusing on immediate sensations rather than memory or reasoning — creating peace, presence, and connection without pressure to “remember.”
