Lions of the Sea

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I recently bought a wide variety of 100-piece jigsaw puzzles for my 92-year-old mother who is a resident of a board-and-care home. Unlike all the other residents there, she doesn’t have dementia, but she is prone to falls, and her vision is impaired, so finding ways to keep her occupied but stationary is not easy. She can no longer read books. The 100-piece puzzles not only gave her something enjoyable to do but the caregivers found them entertaining, too. So my mother benefited from a lot of extra social interaction that would not have happened without the puzzles. And the caregivers took phone-photos of all the completed puzzles. I am going to experiment with 200-piece puzzles next. I do wish that puzzle makers would develop images that target the interests of people born in the 1920s–1940s. Photos of cute animals and animated cartoon characters offer little eppeal to the mature audience. Nostalgia memoribilia would be welcome subject matter.