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The Connections Activity Program for People with Dementia by Ellen Bikoff-Phipps - ISBN: 9781938870392
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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.

The Connections Activity Program for People with Dementia

A Planning and Intervention Guide

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    277 pages

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    8 June 2017

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Summary

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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781938870392
ISBN-10:1938870395
Author:Ellen Bikoff-Phipps, Barbara A. Braddock
Publisher:Health Professions Press,U.S.
Imprint:Health Professions Press,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:277
Release Date:8 June 2017
Weight:395g
Dimensions:12mm x 213mm x 276mm
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”[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.“–Midwest Book Review”Reviews” (02/13/2018)

About The Author

Ellen Bikoff-Phipps

Ellen Bickoff Phipps, CTRS, MSG, is Vice President of Programs & Services for the Alzheimer s Association, Central & Western Virginia Chapter, and part-time adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Gerontology. She specializes in creative therapeutic design for persons diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease and related dementias. Barbara A. Braddock, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She is also Associate Coordinator of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Special Interest Group for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

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