Keeping Active: A Caregiver's Guide to Activities with the Elderly - Softcover

Taking part in everyday activities--getting dressed, helping around the house, visiting neighbors--can help an older person with physical or memory disorders maintain remaining skills and continue to feel involved in life. Organizing these activities can be a challenge for a family care-provider who may also be employed and raising children. This guide helps caregivers assess an older person's strengths and abilities and create a plan of appropriate activities. Written by a director of an adult day program, the book offers numerous, doable suggestions for overcoming losses and creating safe, pleasant events that can be shared by the whole family. Tips on communication, eating out, and enlisting the help of others are useful, as are lists of community resources to investigate when professional assistance is required. The checklist format, positive tone, and clear writing make this an excellent choice for collections on aging. Highly recommended.
- Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
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