Playfulness And Dementia

Author : John Killick
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781849052238

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Playfulness and Dementia by John Killick Pdf

Playfulness has an important role in ensuring that life continues to be enjoyable and meaningful after a person is diagnosed with dementia. This positive and uplifting book sets out to establish playfulness as an essential component of dementia care, and will be a key text in changing attitudes and offering practical suggestions for new and valuable ways of interacting and being with people with the condition. The author explains what is meant by playfulness within this context, and why it is so important for people with dementia, including as a way of maintaining meaningful relationships and a sense of personhood, as a way of retaining control and as a way into lateral thinking. He provides a wealth of practical suggestions for bringing activities with an element of playfulness into day-to-day dementia care, illustrating these with photographs and many examples drawn from his own extensive experience and from people with dementia, their families and professional caregivers. The importance of spontaneity and of being with the person with dementia in the present moment is emphasized, and the author encourages the reader to develop a more playful mindset, giving them the confidence to engage with different kinds of emotions and follow where playfulness leads, even if a sense of uncertainty is generated. The ethical dimensions of playfulness in dementia care are also covered, including important boundaries to be observed and guidance on dealing with difficult situations. Offering a fresh and original perspective that will illuminate our interactions with people with dementia, this is essential reading for professional care staff, activity coordinators, therapists, nurses, people with dementia and their families and caregivers, and anyone else concerned with the wellbeing of those with the condition.

Author : Downs, Murna,Bowers, Barbara
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335245338

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Excellence In Dementia Care: Research Into Practice by Downs, Murna,Bowers, Barbara Pdf

A comprehensive text on dementia care, drawn from research evidence, practice and the experience of people with dementia.

Author : John Killick
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781909912410

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Dementia Positive by John Killick Pdf

This book is not about the past, which has gone. Or the future, which is uncertain. But it is for those who want to improve the lives of people with dementia and themselves in the Here and Now. The book is not written by an expert but by a man seeking to find new approaches concerning dementia who wishes to share his discoveries. Killick steers clear of any sort of medical terminology and instead nurtures the often neglected aspects of dementia, thereby reinforcing to the reader that these are of no lesser importance. In recognition that we are all in this together, Killick gives equal prominence to quotations from, and conversations with, people with dementia and their carers.

Author : Cindy Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317309079

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Play and Wellbeing by Cindy Clark Pdf

In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital. This volume opens a unique window on the role of play in health and wellbeing in widely varied contexts, from the work of Patch Adams as a hospital clown, to an Australian facility for dementia treatment, to a New Zealand preschool after an earthquake, to a housing complex where Irish children play near home. Across these and other featured studies, play is shown to be shaman-like in its transformative dynamics, marshaling symbolic resources to re-align how patients construe and experience illness. Even when illness is not an issue, play promotes wellbeing by its power to reimagine, invigorate, enliven and renew through sensory engagement, physical activity, and symbolism. Play levels social barriers and increases flexible response, facilitating both shared social support and creative reassessment. This book challenges assumptions that play is inefficient and unproductive, with highly relevant evidence that playful processes actually work hard to dislodge unproductive approaches and thereby aid resilience. Solid research evidence in this book charts the course and opens the agenda for taking play seriously, for the sake of health. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Play.

Author : Ann Petermans,Rebecca Cain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351355582

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Design for Wellbeing by Ann Petermans,Rebecca Cain Pdf

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people. It draws together contributions from internationally leading academics and designers to demonstrate the latest thinking and research on the design of products, technologies, environments, services and experiences for wellbeing. Part I starts by conceptualising wellbeing and takes an in-depth look at the rise of the design for wellbeing movement. Part II then goes on to demonstrate design for wellbeing in practice through a broad range of domains from products and environments to services. Among others, we see emerging trends in the design of interiors and urban spaces to support wellbeing, designing to enable and support connectedness and social interaction, and designing for behaviour change to tackle unhealthy eating behaviour in children. Significantly, the body of work on subjective wellbeing, design for happiness, is increasing, and several case studies are provided on this, demonstrating how design can contribute to support the wellbeing of people. Part III provides practical guidance for designing for wellbeing through a range of examples of tools, methods and approaches, which are highly user-centric, participatory, critical and speculative. Finally, the book concludes in Part IV with a look at future challenges for design for wellbeing. This book provides students, researchers and practitioners with a detailed assessment of design for wellbeing, taking a distinctive global approach to design practice and theory in context. Design for Wellbeing concerns designers and organisations but also defines its broader contribution to society, culture and economy.

Author : Jackie Pool
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781849052214

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The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling by Jackie Pool Pdf

This fourth edition contains all the latest research on the use of the PAL Instrument, new information on using the PAL Checklist to carry out sensory interventions and information about how a new online PAL tool supports the book. It features photocopiable activity checklists and plans that help to match users' abilities with activities.

Author : Holly Nelson-Becker
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483309842

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Spirituality, Religion, and Aging by Holly Nelson-Becker Pdf

Spirituality, Religion, and Aging: Illuminations for Therapeutic Practice by Holly Nelson-Becker is a highly integrative book written for students, professionals in aging, ministers, and older adults themselves. Readers will gain the knowledge and skills they need to assess, engage, and address the spiritual and religious needs of older persons. Taking a fresh approach that breaks new ground in the field, the author discusses eight major world religions and covers values and ethics, theories, interventions, health and caregiving, depression and anxiety, dementia, and the end of life. Meditations and exercises throughout the book allow readers to expand and explore their personal understanding of spirituality. Referencing the latest research, the book includes assessments and skill-based tools designed to help practitioners enhance the mental health of older people.

Author : Dick-Muehlke, Cordula
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781466684799

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Psychosocial Studies of the Individual's Changing Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease by Dick-Muehlke, Cordula Pdf

Cognitive impairment, through Alzheimer’s disease or other related forms of dementia, is a serious concern for afflicted individuals and their caregivers. Understanding patients’ mental state and combatting social stigmas are important considerations in caring for cognitively impaired individuals. Psychosocial Studies of the Individual's Changing Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease describes programs and strategies that professional and family caregivers can implement to engage and improve the quality of life of persons suffering from cognitive impairment. Including real-world cases by international experts and a personal approach to the subject, this book is an important resource for caregivers, researchers, and families living with dementia.

Author : Davide Bruno
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781317556435

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The Preservation of Memory by Davide Bruno Pdf

An increase in average life expectancy has given rise to a number of pressing health challenges for the 21st century. Age-related memory loss, whether due to a neurodegenerative condition such as Alzheimer’s disease, or as a product of the normal process of aging, is perhaps the most significant of the health problems of old age presently confronting our society. The Preservation of Memory explores non-invasive, empirically sound strategies that can be implemented to ensure long-lasting and effective retention of information. The chapters in this volume describe and evaluate both well-established and novel methods for improving and strengthening memory, for people with and without dementia. They also look at ways in which effective detection and care can be implemented, and describe empirical findings that can be translated into everyday practice. The contributors take a multidisciplinary approach, motivated by the desire to look beyond and across boundaries to find new areas of knowledge and new opportunities. The Preservation of Memory will be useful reading for students and researchers focusing upon memory, aging and dementia, and also for mental health practitioners, social workers, and carers of persons living with dementia or other memory impairments.

Author : Linda S. Carozza
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : HEALTH & FITNESS
ISBN : 9781597568852

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Communication and Aging by Linda S. Carozza Pdf

Author : Jaber F. Gubrium,Tone A. Andreassen,Per K. Solvang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231541787

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Reimagining the Human Service Relationship by Jaber F. Gubrium,Tone A. Andreassen,Per K. Solvang Pdf

The traditional lines of demarcation between service providers and service users are shifting. Professionals in managed service organizations are working to incorporate the voices of service users into their missions and the way they function, and service users, with growing access to knowledge, have taken on the semblances of professional expertise. Additionally, the human services environment has been transformed by administrative imperatives. The drive toward greater efficiency and accountability has weakened the bond between users and providers. Reimagining the Human Service Relationship is informed by the premise that the helping relationship should be seen as developing in the interactive space between those who provide human services and those who receive them. The contributors to this volume redefine the contours, roles, institutional divisions, means, and aims of providing and receiving services in a range of settings, including child welfare, addiction treatment, social enterprise, doctoring, mental health, and palliative care. Though they advocate an experience-near approach, they remain sensitive to the ambiguities and competing rationalities of the service relationship. Taken together, these chapters reimagine the service relationship by making visible the working relevancies of service delivery.

Author : Marlene Goldman,Kate de Medeiros,Thomas Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000586077

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Critical Humanities and Ageing by Marlene Goldman,Kate de Medeiros,Thomas Cole Pdf

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet often elided work of age activists; and, finally, the challenges posed by AI and, more generally, transhumanism in the context of caring for an ageing population. Divided into four parts: Part I: What Does It Mean to Grow Old? Part II: Aging: Old Age and Disability Part III: Aging, Old Age, and Activism Part IV: Old Age and Humanistic Approaches to Care the volume provides an innovative, two-part structure that facilitates rather than merely encourages interdisciplinary collaboration across the humanities and social sciences. Each essay is thus followed by two short critical responses from disciplinary viewpoints that diverge from that of the essay’s author. Drawing on work from across the humanities - philosophy, fine arts, religion, and literature, this book will be a useful supplemental text for courses on age studies, sociology and gerontology at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Author : Bernike Pasveer,Oddgeir Synnes,Ingunn Moser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811504068

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Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life by Bernike Pasveer,Oddgeir Synnes,Ingunn Moser Pdf

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in ‘homely’ institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do. Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested, and open to negotiation and experimentation. By bringing together approaches from STS, anthropology, health humanities and health care studies, the book points to the importance of people's tinkerings and experiments with making home, as it is here that home is being made and unmade.

Author : Jackie Pool
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781839975035

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The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling by Jackie Pool Pdf

The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments, including dementia. The Instrument was recommended for daily living skills training and activity planning in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Clinical Guidelines for Dementia (NICE 2006). It is an essential resource for any practitioner or carer wanting to provide fulfilling occupation for clients with cognitive impairments. This fifth edition of The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling retains the checklists and plans helpful in matching user's abilities with personal care and leisure activities and includes a new chapter co-written by Professor Lesley Collier on the revised 'PAL Engagement Measure' describing its use and validity. Including access to a digital version of the PAL instrument, it is an essential resource for any practitioner or carer wanting to provide fulfilling and meaningful occupation for clients with cognitive impairments.

Author : Ania Zubala,Vicky Karkou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315454399

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Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression by Ania Zubala,Vicky Karkou Pdf

Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is a comprehensive compilation of expert knowledge on arts therapies’ potential in successfully addressing depression. The book identifies ways of addressing the condition in therapy sessions, shares experience of tools and approaches which seem to work best and guides towards a conscious and confident evidence-based practice. Including contributions from international experts in the field of arts therapies, the book presents some of the most recent, high-profile and methodologically diverse research, whether in the form of clinical trials, surveys or case studies. The three sections of this volume correspond to particular life stages and explore major topics in arts therapies practice and the nature of depression in children, adults and in later life. Individual chapters within the three sections represent all four arts therapies disciplines. The book hopes to improve existing arts therapies practice and research, by encouraging researchers to use creativity in designing meaningful research projects and empowering practitioners to use evidence creatively for the benefit of their clients and the discipline. Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is an essential resource for arts therapies researchers, practitioners and arts therapists in training. It should also be of interest to other health researchers and health professionals, particularly those who work with clients experiencing depression and in multidisciplinary teams.