1st Edition

Rehabilitation Interventions for the Institutionalized Elderly

By Ellen D Taira Copyright 1989
86 Pages
by Routledge

86 Pages
by Routledge

Gerontology professionals offer suggestions to enrich the quality of rehabilitation services offered to the institutionalized elderly. This exciting volume examines up-to-the-minute ideas--some that would have been unlikely even a few years ago--that focus exclusively on rehabilitation services for the institutionalized elderly. Despite the strong move toward more community health services in the... Read more
Contents Rehabilitation Advocacy: A New Role for Therapists Working With the Elderly
  • Technological Applications to Promote Independent Living in the Elderly
  • The Wheelchair: An Adult Scooterboard
  • The Effects of Touch in the Geriatric Population
  • A Group Psychotherapy Intervention to Promote the Functional Independence of Older Adults in a Long Term Rehabilitation Hospital: A Preliminary Study
  • The Effectiveness of an Occupational Therapy Program in an Inpatient Geropsychiatric Setting
  • “A Thousand Small Deliberations”

Biography

Ellen D Taira (Author)