| Description |
1 online resource (152 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; What Do We Mean by "Impaired?"; Philosophy of Treatment; Key to Symbols; Guidelines for Leading a Group Activity; Types of Group Activities; Schedule for a Typical Day; Planning Group Activities; On Hand Materials; ACTIVITIES; Actors and Actresses; Attending to Feelings; Balloon Volleyball; Birthday Celebrations; Category Listing; Cooking; Couplets; Crazy Mixed-Up Stories; Current Events; Deep Muscle Relaxation; Descriptions; Dilemma Drama; Drawing Feelings; Ears for Musical Eras; Expressing Thankfulness; Fairy Tales |
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Famous QuotesFeel and Describe; Find the Object; Flags of the Nations; Food Sampling; Fortune Cookies; Freedom Ball; Friendship Squeeze; Gerontocracy; Gerorobics; Group Crossword Puzzles; Group Points; Group Sentence Completions; Group Time Line; Guided Imagery; Hangman; Hat, Glove, and Whistle; Hush and Listen; Journaling; Letter Assembly; Magazine Scavenger Hunt; Making Greeting Cards; Matching Similes; Moving Stories; Name Description; Nature Walk; Origin of a Name; Personal Concerns; Pet a Pet; Picture Bingo; Proverbs; Pulse Golf; Recall; Remember When ... ; Rhyming Words; Rhythm Echo |
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Roll-A-QuestionScrambled Words; Self Collages; Sense of Scent; Sharing Caring; Similarities and Differences; Slide Shows; Sound Identification; Soothing Hands; Spotlighting; Strength Awards; Stretch Your Imagination; Twenty Questions; Throw It; Value Choices; Wad Ball; Who Am I?; Who Is It?; Whose Face Is It?; Wisdom of the Ages Posters; World Records; Working With Crafts; Generating Your Own Activities |
| Summary |
Here is a one-of-a-kind resource for professionals who prepare and lead group activities for impaired older adults. Filling a crucial gap in the field of clinical gerontology, this invaluable guide provides more than 70 stimulating and therapeutic group activities designed specifically for use with moderately to severely impaired older adults. Even though group activities designed for children, adolescents, and young adults are inadequate and inappropriate for use with older adults who have significant cognitive, emotional, and physical limitations or impairments, very little has been publishe |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Willis, Scott Cabot
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| ISBN |
9781317773962 |
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1317773969 |
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