The general public, policy makers, administrators, and legislatures need to know that activities for people with a cognitive disability require supplies and knowledge. Typical donations of supplies to long-term care facilities contain a mixture of valuable resources and useless junk.
Sorting through donations is labor intensive and requires a university degree; the cost-effectiveness of this approach is dubious. Paying someone $50 an hour for 8 hours to sort through donations costs $400. $400 usually buys better supplies. The foolishness of pitiful budgets for activities in long-term care has gone on too long and a revolutionary reform must be planned.