More Than Movement for Fit to Frail Older Adults
More Than Movement for Fit to Frail Older Adults

Author: Pauline P. Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13:

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This practical resource uses dance, art, poetry, sensory training, and intergenerational games to encourage movement among older adults of varying abilities. Filled with ideas for stimulating creativity, motivating body movement, and fostering a sense of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, More than Movement for Fit to Frail Older Adults is an indispensable tool that makes group activities fun and rewarding. Valuable guidelines are provided for helping clients sharpen perceptual skills, reawaken senses, and increase social interaction; rediscover creativity and share oral histories; master relaxation and stress management techniques; improve balance, flexibility, and strength; and enhance joint articulation and range of motion. Professionals in adult day care centers, senior centers, nursing homes, and other group settings will benefit from the easy-to-lead activities and the wealth of ideas for working with older adults.

Working with Elderly People
Working with Elderly People

Author: A. Murphy

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1784620521

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Care staff and voluntary workers in day centres and residential homes for elderly people have often expressed a need for a comprehensive, readable book to guide them through their first days and help them cope with any problems that may arise. This practical and imaginative handbook draws on the long experience of an occupational therapist working with elderly people in day centres. It provides a fund of advice on caring for people who may be frail, have communication difficulties or mobility problems. It describes how to design and organise a centre, how to use mobility aids and handle wheelchairs, how to move old people and adjust their hearing aids. The author even explains how to repair a wheelchair in an emergency. The second part of the book describes a huge range of stimulating activities, from craftwork and games to cookery, music and gardening, outings and exchanging reminiscences. Old people left with nothing to do rapidly lose their mental agility and interest in life. With a little encouragement, despite any disabilities, they can continue to acquire new interests and play a useful role in the community, and the materials and resources needed will often be donated or acquired very cheaply. The fully updated second edition is copiously illustrated with practical line drawings, and there is an extensive appendix providing useful addresses, helpful books and a listing of some of the conditions that may affect elderly people.

Mindfulness-Based Elder Care
Mindfulness-Based Elder Care

Author: Lucia McBee, LCSW, MPH

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2008-03-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0826115292

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"She shares with us her gold - the conception, trial and error implementation, and initial scientific investigation of a new, educationally-oriented treatment approach that she has named mindfulness-based elder care (MBEC)."-from the Foreword by Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, Associate Professor of Medicine,Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and SocietyUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School Drawing on years of experience as a geriatric social worker and mindfulness-based stress reduction practitioner, the author has taken Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and adapted it to the particular needs of elders, their families, and professional caregivers. Mindfulness practices focus on abilities, rather than disabilities, in order to provide paths to the inner strengths and resources that we all possess. McBee's Mindfulness-Based Elder Care conveys the benefits of mindfulness through meditation, gentle yoga, massage, aromatherapy, humor, and other creative therapies to this special population. She provides clear, concise instructions for her program, as well as a wealth of anecdotal and experiential exercises, to help readers at all levels of experience. Hers is the first book to fully explore the value of mindfulness models for frail elders and their caregivers. Features of this groundbreaking volume include: Valuable tips for establishing programs to address each population's specific needs and restrictions Designed for short classes or 8-week courses Detailed experiential exercises for the reader Replete with case studies Clear, easy-to-follow instructions for elders and caregivers at all levels This innovative book is suitable for use with a variety of populations such as nursing home residents with physical and cognitive challenges, community-dwelling elders, direct-care staff, and non-professional caregivers.

ABLE Bodies Balance Training
ABLE Bodies Balance Training

Author: Sue Scott

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0736064680

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"ABLE Bodies Balance Training" offers an activity-based program to improve balance and mobility for both fit and frail older adults. This practical instructor's guide provides more than 130 balance and mobility exercises that enhance older adults' abilities to maintain balance in completing their everyday tasks.

Generational Intelligence
Generational Intelligence

Author: Simon Biggs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1136804730

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The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence as one way of addressing these issues. How easy is it to put yourself in the shoes of someone of a different age group? What are the personal, interpersonal and social factors that affect our perceptions of the ‘age other’? What are the key issues facing families, workplaces and communities in an ageing society? This book sets out a way of thinking about interpersonal relations based on age, and the question of communication between people of different ages and generations. The book challenges existing orthodoxies for relations between adults of different ages and draws out steps that can be taken to increase understanding between generational groups. The authors outline a series of steps that can be taken to enhance Generational Intelligence, examine existing theories and social issues, and suggest new directions for sustainable relations between generational groups.

Still Kicking
Still Kicking

Author: Abby V. Brown-Watson

Publisher: Health Professions Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Still Kicking reveals a proven approach to improving the health and outlook of frail older adults living in the community or a facility. This practical guide provides all the tools needed to start and run your own restorative group program. Includes step-by-step instructions for 58 support-group activities and 71 physical exercises and games. Plus, find advice on how to design your own program, decide whom the program should serve, recruit/train group leaders, and prepare older adults for the group experience. You can easily adapt this simple, cost-effective model to various settings, including church congregations, retirement homes, senior centers, assisted living, and nursing and rehabilitation facilities.

Home Health Care Provider
Home Health Care Provider

Author: Emily Prieto, MBA, LSW

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2008-06-09

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 082612853X

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This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond standard nurses' aide training manuals, the book focuses on the psycho-social needs of home care recipients, stressing the need to maintain the house as a home and sustaining the recipient's way of life throughout caregiving situations. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills that benefit recipient and caregiver, creating a systematic, easy-to-follow plan for delivering quality service and maintaining, or improving, quality of life.

Exercise for Aging Adults
Exercise for Aging Adults

Author: Gail M. Sullivan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2024-05-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783031529276

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Exercise has been rightly termed the “fountain of youth” for older adults. Exercise is associated with lower risks of developing many chronic conditions (cardiac disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis) as well as being a key treatment modality for common geriatric problems (osteoarthritis, falls, incontinence, sleep issues, frailty). Exercise, or regularly planned physical activity, is also associated with higher functional levels and well-being, which many older adults consider critical for a high quality of life. Indeed, many physiologic changes formerly attributed to senescence appear due to disuse and thus less inevitable than assumed. The dictum of “use it or lose it” holds true, for people 70 years and older. This user-friendly text provides practical strategies for health care professionals who work with or advise older adults to create exercise prescriptions suitable for specific settings and medical conditions. Expanded and revised, the second edition translates new findings in exercise research for the elderly for busy practitioners, trainees, students and administrators and provides practical strategies that can be implemented immediately in the common settings in which practitioners care for adults. It includes key points and case examples which showcase the strong evidence supporting exercise by older adults as a key to enhance health, prevent serious outcomes, such as hospitalization and functional loss, and as part of the treatment plan for diseases that are common in older adults. Strategies and exercises are discussed for specific care settings and illustrated via video examples to ensure readers can immediately apply described techniques. Written by experts in the field, Exercise for Aging Adults is a valuable guide to maintaining quality of life and functional independence from frail to healthy aging adults for physicians, residents in training, medical students, physical therapists, gerontology advance practice nurse practitioners, assisted living facility administrators, directors of recreation, and long-term care directors.