When Mum was walking she took everything she could lay her hands on and often destroyed things through loving them to death. She would rip things off the wall if she wanted it. Unfortunately this meant that anything we tried to do in her room at the home was destroyed. Photos were a thing she would carry with her and scrunch them up. I laminated many of these and that did help to protect them for her to a certain extent but not fully. George does the same things.
Mum is now unable to walk and so is in a lazy boy armchair most of the time. Consequently she can no longer rip the stuff off the walls. However she is often awake for periods during the night. I did not want her to just have bare walls to look at and so have put up pictures and stickers (some 3D) all over her walls as well as lights, a canvas of all of us with her and mobiles hanging from the ceiling. Everything is placed out of her reach as she would still rip them off (and has done so) if she could. The staff tell me she loves to look at them and has said that they are beautiful. She waves her arms and reaches out to them. I believe it is important to provide visual stimulation to people with Alzheimer's as they can focus on things they love. At present I am making George a canvas for his birthday which will have 25 photos on it. 
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