Connections Activity Program for People With Dementia : A Planning and Intervention Guide

Bikoff-phipps, Ellen; Braddock, Barbara A.

ISBN 10: 1938870395 / ISBN 13: 9781938870392

Published by Health Professions Press, 2017

Seller Inventory # 29800540-n

Synopsis:

Enjoy the benefits and reduced stress that come from reconnecting people with dementia to lifelong activities they love. Using a strength-based approach, this guide shows step by step how to design meaningful, individualized activities that can be performed by a person with memory loss as independently as possible. Helpful assessment and implementation tools guide your efforts to identify a person’s optimal leisure activities and then tailor them to current skill levels. The resulting activity plans will effectively promote the well-being and self-identity of each person with memory loss.

Downloadable resources include:

• Communication strategies and conversations starters
• Assessment forms
• Step-by-step implementation guides
• Sample activities adapted for early, middle, and late stages of dementia.

Review: "[This] impressively organized and presented instructional guide... is an ideal and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Health/Medicine instructional reference collections in general, and Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiving supplemental studies reading lists in particular."-- (02/13/2018)

Bibliographic Details

Title: Connections Activity Program for People With...
Publisher: Health Professions Press
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New