was one of those puzzle books with a list of words and a list of letters, where you circle the words from the list. I know how much she loved those. I have decided to fill in the book before never seeing these types of puzzles again, sadly. She enjoyed them so much. I'm sure there are some online that could be printed out.
I have yet to meet anyone elderly, at least in my family, that does not love westerns. My aunt sure loved them. Most male members of the family who are in their senior years love them too. Westerns are like pacifiers, I noticed. Or at least they were when I found some on the Roku for my aunt. Even cable usually has some channels that show those old westerns, either movies or TV shows from back then or both. Something about westerns settles older people down and makes them just zone out and grin or something. At least, that is how it did her and has done several other members of my family and extended family. Westerns are the great pacifiers of TV for them, especially Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and any John Wayne movies you can find.
Those are the two best things I used to use to help my aunt not be so bored.
She loved those and reading. I would download oodles of "the classics" as she called them. They were books she had (that I now still have) but could not physically hold any more. She could read them on her little netbook though. Netbooks are not overly expensive to buy and would give anyone who loves to read oodles of material to keep them busy. Even Amazon offers oodles of free books that are well worth the read. Project Gutenberg is another great source of free reading. Even letting them borrow one will keep them entertained. I let my aunt borrow my netbook. It didn't bother me, because I have my laptop and love it. The netbook was her constant companion once I taught her how to turn the pages to read books and how to search and scroll to read newspapers and web sites too.
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