1st Edition
Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly
Edited By Phyllis M. Foster
Copyright 1986
216 Pages
by
Routledge
217 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Foster, Phyllis M.
