Dementia Support Line
Activity ideas: Quizzing
Ideas for a person with dementia to continue to enjoy taking part in quizzes as their condition progresses.
A quiz can be an enjoyable way for a person with dementia to test their knowledge, reminisce or simply feel involved as a player, quizmaster or scorekeeper.
Quizzes can be played with immediate family, a group of friends, or a wider collection of people – for example, a charity fundraising quiz that’s open to the general public.
In each case, the quiz can take place online via video call or, as lockdown continues to ease, back out in the real world.
An advantage of setting up a quiz among friends and family is that the question topics, and difficulty, can be chosen with the person with dementia in mind.
Do they have any favourite films, books or bands that they might enjoy answering questions on?
Ensuring that questions aren’t too easy or too difficult will also help keep someone engaged.
If a person might struggle to answer questions on their own, then playing in teams could help to keep them involved in discussions without having to come up with an answer themselves.
A person with dementia may like to invent their own questions, whether researched online, taken from books, or simply created using their existing knowledge.
Alternatively, they could be the one who records and announces the scores as the quiz progresses.
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