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 ...

About 80 women spent their Saturday quilting fidget quilts and enjoying each other's company for a fundraiser for people with Alzheimer's disease. The event, which served as a fundraiser for three ...

KELLY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A woman from Union County is trying to improve the quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease. She's using her love of art to make sensory blankets for residents in her ...

Shirley Anderson’s new blanket has all sorts of bells and whistles. The small lap quilt features nine squares, with two or more activities per square. There are buttons, zippers, laces, Velcro flaps, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A group of women in Spokane are on a mission to comfort some of the city's most vulnerable residents. Known as "The Spokane Fidget Project," they handmaking fidget quilts to comfort ...

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 ...

Vicki Purnell has been making fidget quilts for people living with dementia for the last six years. While there's little research on the effectiveness of the quilts, the small, colourful items are ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The “Block a Month” quilting club meets every third Friday of the month at Montgomery’s Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library. There, you’ll find quilts traditional and ...

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Kelley Turnbull, school therapist at Rock Creek School in Walkersville, accepted 32 fidget mats made by members of Clustered Spires Quilt Guild for the school’s students. Fidget mats are miniature ...

RARITAN TOWNSHIP - Janet Wyckoff of Hopewell donated 18 fidget quilts to Hunterdon Medical Center’s Nurses Improving Care of Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) Program. Fidget quilts are small square quilts ...

When you think about tools in the RCMP's arsenal, blankets aren't exactly the first thing that comes to mind, but a new partnership between Kings District RCMP and two other organizations is proving ...