Activities for Confused Adults

When I get confused I like to watch TV or take a nap. I damn sure don't want to fold towels. I may be confused but I know when I'm being taken advantage of.

Honestly, though, I think the best activity for confused patients is to engage them in a conversation. Even a conversation with another confused patient can work wonders for both.

This is a request for ideas for some activities that an older confused adult could
participate in, during the day, while sitting in a wheelchair. It was suggested by
one person that folding towels/facecloths is something that they could do.
Any more idea?
Thanks

One of our Activities Assistants discovered that one of our dementia residents can do puzzles. I'm still in shock over this. She uses the puzzles with the big pieces. I think sometimes we underestimate the cognitive ability of the dementia residents.

Reminds me of one lady I took care of who was severely impaired. She was a very pleasant woman, but you could tell when you tried to have a conversation with her that it wasn't all computing. She simply answered with one or two words. I didn't see any cues that she even recognized my face from day to day. I tried giving her a pencil and paper to see if she would write (as this had worked in the past with one man I took care of). All she would do was scribble. I tried books, I tried puzzles, everything and she never seemed to want to do anything except hold the baby doll I bought her for Christmas. We found out that she was an artist and had spent most of her free time in her lifetime making beautiful cards and things.
Well they took her down to an activity where they painted faces on pumpkins. Afterward she had come up and the activity girl told me that Connie had something for me. I walked up to her and saw the jack o lantern she had painted! All of the facial features where perfectly painted, not a smudge in sight. She painted the stem with two colors of bright green alternating and painted little red and blue flowers all around it in a pattern. I mean, she did better than you or I could do! When she saw my face her eyes lit up and she lifted the pumpkin up toward me, I thought she was just showing me, but she placed it in my hands and said, "for you!"
I was taking care of her for well over a year, but That was the first time I could really tell that she recognized me as her friend!
She eventually passed away but we have a picture, that her family donated, she had painted years ago, of a cat hanging above our nurses station.