The Connections Activity Program for People with Dementia: A Planning and Intervention Guide

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Ellen Bikoff-Phipps Barbara A. Braddock

The Connections Activity Program for People with Dementia

A Planning and Intervention Guide

Ellen Bikoff-Phipps, Barbara A. Braddock

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Health Professions Press,U.S.
30 May 2017

Geriatric nursing; Home nursing & caring

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 personâ€™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.

By: Ellen Bikoff-Phipps, Barbara A. Braddock
Imprint: Health Professions Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 276mm, Width: 213mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN: 9781938870392
ISBN 10: 1938870395
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 30 May 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Connections Activity Program for People with Dementia: A Planning and Intervention Guide

"""[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)"