Recreational Services For Older Adults
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Recreational Services for Older Adults
Author | : Jay Sanford Shivers |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0838639445 |
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The first three chapters of this book contain gerontological information concerning the aging process, demographics, changes in the style of living and agin persons, and vulnerabilities encountered. This volume explicates fundamental beliefs in the need for active engagement - socially, physically, cognitively, and emotionally.
Leisure Services with the Elderly
Author | : Joseph E. Teaff,Joseph D. Teaff |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0881335711 |
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Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults
Author | : M Jean Keller |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781136581090 |
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Learn how to effectively plan and deliver activities for the growing number of older people with developmental disabilities. Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults is an innovative new book that aims to stimulate interest and continued support for recreation program development and implementation among developmental disability and aging service systems. Particularly useful for human service professionals working in the areas of developmental disabilities and aging, this practical volume will also be of interest to researchers, educators, and students interested in recreation services with older adults who are developmentally disabled. The older adult population with developmental disabilities (DD) continues to grow rapidly, yet little is known about their needs and interests. In this book a wide variety of authors share innovative and creative strategies for programming activities with older adults with DD. They focus on diverse issues, services, and programs from researchers, educators, and practitioners, represented varied disciplines. Each chapter demonstrates the diversity that makes serving a growing number of older individuals with DD both challenging and rewarding. Among the wealth of information you will find in Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults are discussions on the characteristics of this population and challenge activity professionals to seek innovative program strategies to appropriately serve individuals with DD companionship/friendship, physical functioning, and retirement adjustment issues that confront older adults who have lived with lifelong disabling conditions how a continuum of recreational activities is needed to provide meaningful experiences to elders with developmental disabilities how to design therapeutic recreation programs survey instruments that can be used to gain information about the needs of elderly persons with DD how to find specific programs and services that are age appropriate and foster creative expression and positive self-esteem a rationale for the development of integrated recreation programs
Assessing Recreation Services for Older Adults in Small Communities
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Author | : Myra Schiff,Ontario Municipal Recreation Association |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Older people |
ISBN | : 0772938288 |
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Leisure in Later Life
Author | : Michael J. Leitner,Sara F. Leitner |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : UOM:39015015283982 |
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Leisure and Aging
Author | : Heather Julie Gibson,Jerome F. Singleton |
Publsiher | : Human Kinetics |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780736094634 |
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Leisure and Aging: Theory and Practice provides students and professionals with a balanced perspective of current knowledge as it presents cutting-edge research in both fields. Supplemented by online ancillaries, this text offers a wealth of knowledge on various aspects of life for older people and the role of leisure in their lives.
Recreational Service for the Aging
Author | : Jay Sanford Shivers,Hollis F. Fait |
Publsiher | : Lea & Febiger |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011758409 |
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Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure
Author | : Ted Tedrick |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781136371165 |
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If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you! Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure will help you improve your ability to instruct exercise and other fitness activities and, at the same time, increase your knowledge about aging and mental retardation and developmental disabilities. This combination of skills and knowledge is important to your understanding of your clients and their needs. You will assist them in leading a more active, structured life that will result in a higher sense of satisfaction in their daily living and health benefits that will speak for themselves. Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure gives you specific guidelines for establishing fitness programs as well as ideas for offering clients goals and incentives that will evoke and maintain their enthusiasm to participate. Using a proven model, the Arts/Fitness Quality of Life Activities Program, the authors show how careful planning and sequencing can produce successful results, such as peer interaction, flexible thinking, self-expression, and improved mental health. As you learn about the key factors for programming for this group of clients, you will also learn about: the demographics of this population leisure education training and cross-training with aging specialists and mental retardation staff community integration and for whom it is appropriate inactivity in later life and the complications it causes life satisfaction and leisure participation differences in physical and cognitive functioning among this population consumer satisfaction among older adults with developmental disabilities It is never too late to introduce leisure activities into the lives of those with developmental disabilities. With encouragement and careful guidance, you can lead your elders/clients into a more active and healthy life. Use Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure as a guide to find activities and exercise programs that are appropriate, fun, and worthwhile!