Lead older adults in creative drama activities. This practical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting over 50 introductory activities to stimulate the senses, awaken the imagination, activate body movement, encourage interaction, and stimulate verbal communication with the elderly. Written primarily for activity, recreation, and program directors of community/day care centers and in retirement homes who have some interest in drama but no formal training, Drama Activities With Older Adults features a wide array of group work skills. A number of complete model session plans...
Lead older adults in creative drama activities. This practical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting over 50 introductory activit...
With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few books on expressive arts for older people, this unique, new volume is ideal for professionals who provide art activities for residents in adult homes and retirement communities.Creative experience can facilitate the expression of ideas and feelings, increase sensory stimulation, improve self-esteem, and improve social relationships. Creative Arts With Older People provides time-tested suggestions to stimulate the creative process among...
With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few book...
Lead older adults in creative drama activities. This practical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting over 50 introductory activities to stimulate the senses, awaken the imagination, activate body movement, encourage interaction, and stimulate verbal communication with the elderly. Written primarily for activity, recreation, and program directors of community/day care centers and in retirement homes who have some interest in drama but no formal training, Drama Activities With Older Adults features a wide array of group work skills. A number of complete model session plans...
Lead older adults in creative drama activities. This practical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting over 50 introductory activit...
In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care. Their extensive study of and experience with nursing home residents and caregivers reveal that our negative and often painful thoughts about nursing homes are not always well-founded. The authors effectively use monologue and dialogue to take the reader into the world of the nursing home to observe the work of the nursing home staffs, from administrators to housekeepers, as they become...
In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people ...
With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few books on expressive arts for older people, this unique, new volume is ideal for professionals who provide art activities for residents in adult homes and retirement communities.Creative experience can facilitate the expression of ideas and feelings, increase sensory stimulation, improve self-esteem, and improve social relationships. Creative Arts With Older People provides time-tested suggestions to stimulate the creative process among...
With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few book...
Exercise Programming for Older Adults is a valuable guidebook for ensuring that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physical components of aerobic, strength, and flexibility training--and that each component is properly administered. The guidelines presented reveal how physical activities supervised by trained personnel can make a noticeable difference in the participants' quality of life.
Exercise Programming for Older Adults is a valuable guidebook for ensuring that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physica...