Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Foster, Phyllis M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This highly practical volume presents valuable insights for all professionals who provide activities for the impaired elderly. It will serve as a helpful resource for both those who work directly with the aged in institutional settings, as well for those who train activities counselors.Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly addresses a number of pertinent issues and provides useful information on designing and implementing recreation and socialization programs, memory improvement classes, sign language activities, and leisure education and counseling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317840138
• Artikelnr.: 40113359

Autorenporträt

Foster, Phyllis M.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Therapeutic Individual Activities
* Therapeutic Group Activities
* Planning and Leading Activity Groups
* "Worth Repeating" Activities and Resources Reference List for
Activities Workers With the Elderly
* Effects of Institutionalization Upon Residents of Extended Care
Facilities
* A Protocol for Recreation and Socialization Programs for the Aged
* A Humanistic Approach to Old-Old People: A General Model
* "Worth Repeating" Reality Orientation: Full Circle
* "Who Did You Used to Be?" The Psychological Process of Aging's Impact
on Institutionalization: Implications for Activities
* "Sign Language Through Discussion" . . . An Innovative Activity
* They Need Us, We Need Them: A Study of the Benefits of
Intergenerational Contact
* The Effects of Reminiscing on the Perceived Control and Social
Relations of Institutionalized Elderly
* The Design and Implementation of Memory Improvement Classes in the
Adult Day Care Setting
* The Effects of Pet Facilitative Therapy on Patients and Staff in an
Adult Day Care Center
* Living With Dying: A Model for Helping Nursing Home Residents and
Staff Deal With Death
* The Relationship Between Nursing Home Residents' Perceptions of
Nursing Staff and Quality of Nursing Home Care
* Is Laughter the Best Medicine? A Study of the Effects of Humor on
Perceived Pain and Affect
* The Interface of Activity and Psychopharmacological Agents
* Self Medication as a Form of Self Control in an Intermediate Care
Facility: Preliminary Data