Soon after her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011, Nancy Rose moved with her husband from Washington State to Colorado to help care for her mom.
One day, Nancy, 51, marveled at how a handcrafted multicolored pastel quilt designed to provide tactile stimulation —called a sensory blanket — calmed her restless mother down.
Rose finally had an answer for all the unused fabric she had lying around the house: she would make one of the quilts. “It was a way to cope and release stress,” says Rose, “and to help someone else out.”
Rose didn’t stop at just one. In the two years since,...
One day, Nancy, 51, marveled at how a handcrafted multicolored pastel quilt designed to provide tactile stimulation —called a sensory blanket — calmed her restless mother down.
Rose finally had an answer for all the unused fabric she had lying around the house: she would make one of the quilts. “It was a way to cope and release stress,” says Rose, “and to help someone else out.”
Rose didn’t stop at just one. In the two years since,...
- 7/27/2017
- by Diane Herbst
- PEOPLE.com
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