The Connections Activity Program for People with Dementia
a planning and intervention guide
$84.11
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2017
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 activ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781938870392 |
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| 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: | 276mm x 213mm x 12mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”[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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