Foster Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-317-84014-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 217 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Phyllis M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Ergotherapie, Kreativtherapie (z. B. Kunst, Musik, Theater)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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