Thanks very much for your suggestions. I don't think my wife is really capable anymore of activities like folding laundry. Sometimes her aides put on French music and that seems to perk her up. My real desire is to expose her to more stimulation, rather than just have her sit in a wheelchair all day. But I don't know what kind of stimulation will work best for her. Pet therapy is a good idea. We even tried a mechanical cat that purred etc, but she didn't seem to relate to that much at all. Possibly a guinea pig, which was a favorite animal of hers while we were living in Australia. My wife Christine was a very active person, who was a docent at the Melbourne, Australia Zoo, drove around the entire periphery of Australia by herself, was held by the Vietcong for a few days in Vietnam, etc. So it's sad to see her doze most of the time. It could be that she's not really capable of doing much anymore, but I want to experiment with more stimulation than she's getting at present.