Module 4 Lesson 5. Daily routines During the day It is helpful to plan activities that the person you care for enjoys doing, based on their prior interests and current abilities. Let’s look at an example Martha loves baking and used to prepare special cakes and cookies for family gatherings. Now that she has dementia, she sometimes forgets the ingredients and the order in which to put them in. At first, Martha uses a cookbook to help her continue baking but she finds this increasingly difficult. The cakes and cookies do not taste very good and have to be thrown away. Penny wants to help her mother keep up this activity. 2. Check your understandingMaintaining prior activities and interests during the day. What suggestions do you have for Penny? Please select the correct answer from the responses below. As Martha’s abilities change, Penny could plan some time during the afternoon to bake and cook with her mother.Penny should go shopping with her mother and buy easy to prepare cakes and cookies, “out of the box”, with limited added work to enable Martha to continue to do some cooking and baking.Penny should put away the baking and cooking pans and tell her mother that it’s just not possible to do this anymore.Check As Martha’s abilities change, Penny could plan some time during the afternoon to bake and cook with her mother. This is an excellent plan for the future! It allows Martha to continue her routine with support as needed. Penny should go shopping with her mother and buy easy to prepare cakes and cookies, “out of the box”, with limited added work to enable Martha to continue to do some cooking and baking. This is a good suggestion. It respects Martha’s routine but adapts the activity to her current abilities. Penny should put away the baking and cooking pans and tell her mother that it’s just not possible to do this anymore. This is not very helpful. Penny has not tried to come up with an alternative to help her mother and it may make Martha feel upset. Error: Please select at least one option.Please click ‘check’ to view the answers before continuing.Error: Please type your answers in the text box.