Forget-Me-Not Resource Center

The Forget-Me-Not Resource Center at the Newton Public Library includes books, DVDs, and other resources that anyone, regardless of having a library card, can check out. The materials cover topics from biographies of people who have Alzheimer’s disease, care giving aids, educational books on brain health, on activities to do with a person with Alzheimer’s, DVDs that are soothing and relaxing, educational and others. If you don’t have a library card, check it out under the Newton Forget-Me-Not card! Check it out soon!!

Shannon Nosbisch and Amy Sobrino share how the Forget Me Not Resource Center began.

Watch Amy Sobrino demonstrate how to use the Reminiscence Kits available at the Newton Public Library.

How to Use the Reminiscence Kits

Memory Moment

May 2019: Examining the Relationship between Sleep & Alzheimer’s

June 2019: Protecting Your Loved One’s Financial Security

July 2019: How Do You ‘Take Care’?

August 2019: Family Caregiver Support Program

September 2019: Assessing Non-Verbal Signs of Pain

October 2019: Preparing for the Holidays

November 2019: Basics of Alzheimer’s Disease

December 2019: This Is the Year

January 2020: Highlighting Our Local Programs

March 2020: Highlighting Long-term Ombudsman Program

May 2020: Dementia Caregiving in the time of COVID-19

June 2020: Non-Profit promotes awareness of dementia

July 2020: Learning caregiving from improv comedy

September 2020: Decoding the Stages of Dementia

October 2020: Something’s Not Right. Now What?

Forget-Me-Not Spotlight

January 2020 Take Your Oxygen First

March 2020 A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease

April 2020 – Dementia Videos during Quarantine

May 2020 – When Reasoning No Longer Works

June 2020 – The 36 Hour Day

July 2020 – Glen Campbell “I’ll Be Me”

September 2020 – A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer – 300 tips

October 2020 – The Brain Bible

Below is an archive list of blog posts on the Forget Me Not Collection