Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly / Edition 1

by Phyllis M. Foster

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780866565660
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1986
Series:	Activities, Adaptation and Aging Series
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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