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 personaEURO (TM)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 Information
ISBN 9781938870392
Author Ellen Bikoff-Phipps
Format Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint Health Professions Press,U.S.
Publisher Health Professions Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 395g