An Alzheimer’s Society and University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) funded innovation has created five tactile wooden tools – the Fidget Widget toolkit. The Fidget Widgets provide meaningful activity ...

A new “fidget” toolkit is improving the wellbeing of people living with dementia by helping them to tap into the psychological need to feel occupied and engaged, according to a leading research ...

Seeing a lack of suitable activities for people with more advanced dementia, Judith Bower and Jane Souyave decided to do something about it. Judith, internal trainer and Dementia Adviser at the ...

The tips of all my pens are all chewed up. When I’m nervous, I take my ring off and put it back on, repeatedly. I twirl my hair and crack my knuckles and play with my necklace and slip my shoes off ...

Paper clips, stress balls, clicking pens, rubber bands, magnets. Most of us mindlessly fidget with something while we ponder a project, listen to a lecture, or work through a problem, and two ...

It's spinning off the shelves. There's a new gadgets kids are desperate to get their hands on. It's called a Fidget Widget or a Flip Spinner. It's showing up in classrooms across the nation and ...