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Can arts and crafts lower your risk of getting
Alzheimer’s disease?
Various studies have shown the psychological, social,
and physical benefits of crafting. Crafters often have a better quality of
life.
Engaging in a craft is relaxing and relieves stress. Knitting,
for example, has been referred to as the “new yoga”. People engaged in arts and
crafts claim they feel calmer, happier, less depressed, less anxious, and more
confident after engaging in their preferred craft.
Along with teaching patience and producing a sense of
achievement and pride from a finished project, crafting has been known to
improve problem solving abilities and spatial awareness as well as develop
hand-eye coordination.
Now, according to Heather Snyder, PhD, senior
director of medical and scientific operations for the Alzheimer’s Association,
people who engage in arts and crafts at least once a week have a lower risk of
developing various forms of dementia like Alzheimer’s disease.
I saw this firsthand when I moonlighted at the
Sunnyside of Westfield Assisted Living and Rehabilitation Center in Revenge of the Crafty Corpse. The most
active residents were the ones who spent a good deal of time in the arts and
crafts room, and several vied for the title of Queen of the Crafters. The reigning queen was feisty 98-year-old Lyndella Wegner—at least until someone murdered her.
Revenge of
the Crafty Corpse
Book 3 of the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries
Book 3 of the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries
Anastasia
Pollack’s dead louse of a spouse has left her with more bills than you can
shake a crochet hook at. Teaching craft classes at her mother-in-law’s assisted
living center seems like an easy way to supplement her meager income. But when
Lyndella Wegner—a 98-year-old know-it-all with a penchant for ruffles and
lace—turns up dead, Anastasia’s cantankerous mother-in-law becomes the prime
suspect in her murder. Upon discovering that Lyndella’s scandalous craft
projects—and her scandalous behavior—made her plenty of enemies, Anastasia sets
out to find the real killer before her mother-in-law ends up behind bars.
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