NEAR ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- If you know someone with dementia, you might want to consider making them a "fidget quilt" for Christmas. Fidget quilts, also called sensory blankets, can help calm people ...

CEDAR FALLS — Women with dementia, just like their male counterparts, have trouble keeping their hands still. So when left to their own devices they’ll fidget with buttons or zippers, and sometimes ...

Boredom and restlessness was no match for a ‘fidget quilt’ created by a Hotel-Dieu nurse and her mother. Wanting to help make Mary’s days more comfortable, Tonkin enlisted her mother, Julie, to create ...

Pull, fold. Pull, fold. Pull, fold. All day, every day, Barb Allen's 93-year-old mother would sit in her Nova Scotia long-term care home, pulling tissues out of a box and folding them — an obsessive ...

Left to right: Scott Leier (Seniors' Safety Society board member), Michelle Parker (Seniors' Safety Society co-ordinator), Beth McBrine (The 2 Fidgeteers), Cathy Dunbar (The 2 Fidgeteers), and Sgt.