Ep. 077 Using Sensory Stimulation to Ease Symptoms of Dementia;

Brainy Thing:    15:40       Behind the Redwood Curtain:  26:20

 

What we’re learning from our knitting:

Margaret learns about knitting different specialty textured yarns for her textured amigurumi The Three Little Kittens by Sara Scales https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/three-little-kittens-4.  Catherine ventures into sweater knitting for a dog using The Darling Darby Sweater:   https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/darling-darby-sweater.  

 

Brainy Thing:

Sensory Stimulation Helps People with Dementia

General on Alzheimers:  https://yourbrainmatters.org.au/about-dementia/what-is-dementia

Snoezelen:  https://www.snoezelen.info/history/

Paul Shepard quote:    http://dreamingup.blogspot.com/2018/01/shepard-for-day5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CaptainFuturesDreamingUpDaily+%28Captain+Future%27s+Dreaming+Up+Daily%29

Herdlevar’s research:  https://www.ntnu.no/documents/10401/1264433962/AshildArtikkel.pdf/8f8ba50d-7425-43c7-9e5f-bfef4380e206

 

Behind the Redwood Curtain:  

Humboldt Handweaver’s and Spinners Guild:  http://www.hhsguild.org/

 

Facebook:  Also, join our Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/Teachingyourbraintoknitpodcast/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Ravelry Group  http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit

website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post.

Instagram:   Margaret Kelso for Margaret and MagicWombat1 for Catherine

 

In this episode of Teaching Your Brain to Knit we investigate using Sensory Stimulation to Ease the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and Dementia;  We tackle using different types of specialty yarns for texture and try a strangely shaped design for a dog sweater;  And w e give a shout out to the Humboldt Handweaver’s and Spinners Guild.