This revised edition of Therapeutic Activity Intervention with the Elderly: Foundations and Practices (1996) has undergone significant changes from the original text. The book has been broadened beyond a narrow focus on therapeutic intervention to embrace principles and practices that are applicable to professional activity specialists who serve older adults in a wide range of settings.
Tedrick and Green address the body of knowledge which has emerged as activity programming becomes a major part of the provision of high-quality long-term care. While the focus is primarily upon long-term care and nursing homes, the authors provide a good overview of other geriatric settings in which activities can and do occur.
Peggy Powers, a veteran "chef" in the recreation field, takes you through a wide variety of activity "recipes" for a satisfying gourmet meal, based on programming for the individual, the environment, and the developmental needs of the participant. Effective leadership facilitates when it is best to "add the ingredients" to "stir" up the group or to let the group "simmer."
According to the authors, Beyond Baskets and Beads: Activities for Older Adults With Functional Impairments was born out of love. This book contains all the things the authors wish someone had told them when they started developing activities for older adults with functional impairments.
This book is an invaluable tool for planners of social recreation programs. If one has a need for great programs, yet has little time to develop them, Moore has designed this straightforward book to provide ready-to-go plans for children, adults or mixed groups for both high-energy and more sedate participation.
The number and efficiency of the neurons and the dendrites in the brain determine how well it functions, and some scientists now believe the brain is able to grow new dendrites and neurons. This compilation of tested brain-stimulating, challenging, novel-enriched Brain Fitness activities can benefit anyone — regardless of age or cognitive ability.
Designed to provide a different day-long program for each of the 366 days of the year (yes, leap year is included), Everything From A to Y can also be used as a unique indexed resource for program ideas in adult care settings. The programs can be modified and adapted to fit the abilities of any particular group.
File o' Fun is a set of reference cards for over 200 activities plus a Leadership Booklet to assist recreation leaders during the planning and implementation of occasions where people get together for fun and fellowship. This collection is appropriate not only for leadership training programs at the college level but also for all types of professional and nonprofessional recreation settings found within groups such as scouting, 4-H, senior centers, care centers, and where leaders are called upon to design activity programs for parties, holidays, and/or special events.
The authors have combined their decades of experience leading workshops and events for the widest range of groups and settings to produce a handbook of leadership through playful interaction. More than a theoretical guide, The Game and Play Leader's Handbook is a practical guide to how leaders can get fun to happen with real people in real situations.
This book concentrates not only on the planning and leadership of activities but also contains a "Game Finder" which indexes games by group size, level of effort, setting, amount of time needed, and special preparation (if any). Invaluable for the activity leader in any setting.
The 500-plus activities in Group Games and Activity Leadership are intended to be used as a reference or guide in planning larger group activities. Some of the activities are new. Others have been played in neighborhoods and on playgrounds when we were children and in parks by our parents and grandparents.
A well-organized children's activity area will make a dramatic impact on any event — large or small. Written by a recreation professional with over a dozen years of experience in coordinating children's activities, this book covers everything from planning and setup to implementation to preparing for the next event.
This delightful book and CD offer everything needed to conduct fun-filled music programs with older adults. A unique collection of action songs, sing-alongs, and music activities, The Melody Lingers On provides ideas for using music as a catalyst for group reminiscence. The music activities and the CD were designed to be used by activity directors with little or no musical background, by music specialists, or by older adults in their homes.
More Than a Game is a guide to providing the quality of life to which every client is entitled. These 37 innovative therapeutic activities and their variations are designed to suit the individual needs, current abilities, and former lifestyles of older adults in long-term care. The activities cover a wide array of cognitive levels and are appropriate for use in nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, continuing care retirement communities, and adult day-care programs.
N.E.S.T. Approach: Dementia Practice Guidelines for Disturbing Behaviors compiles the research evidence on psychosocial interventions tested on older adults with dementia to date, and directs future research by pointing out what needs to be evaluated to improve our practice.
The activities in this book promote cooperative and constructive forms of leisure utilizing supportive and positive relationships among participants. Activities are categorized into four basic areas: instruction, demonstration/entertainment, competition, or free play. These categories allow the leader to set up a program of various activities that help develop a memorable, positive experience among the groups with whom they work.
While crafts show off clients' skills and word games challenge their memories, many people in managed care especially love the opportunity to be in the spotlight by reading skits. Vetter writes skits that give all clients a chance to shine. Whether seated at a table reading the script, or if able, standing and performing the lines from memory, each performer is allowed time in the spotlight.
This book, by the authors of the best-selling Recreation Programming and Activities for Older Adults, is written for the recreation professional and anyone else who works with older adults in the field of recreation. It provides low-cost, client-intensive recreation programming ideas for older adults, regardless of the level at which they are able to function. The activities are designed for older adults who may or may not be physically frail, but who exhibit many signs of confusion, memory loss and/or disorientation.
Simple Expressions offers more than 200 ideas for creative and therapeutic art activities that can be adapted and changed to meet the needs and ability levels of almost all long-term care residents. Although this book is written with residents of long-term care facilities in mind, these activities are appropriate for adult day-care centers, assisted-living facilities, and continuing care residence centers as well. This book offers more than 200 therapeutic art activities suitable for a wide range of cognitive and physical levels.
Special events and festivals have become common, important features in communities all over the world. Special Events and Festivals will assist seasoned event planners, new staff members in event management companies, board members from nonprofit agencies, and anyone else with the responsibility of planning a special event or festival. The planning steps presented in this manual are applicable to all types of events from large, multiday festivals to small, one-day community activities.
Initiatives are activities that require group effort to accomplish tasks. Initiatives can serve the dual purpose of providing engaging, enjoyable experiences while promoting both individual and collective growth and development. This book presents a frame of reference for and the content and process of utilizing initiatives.
