Art Activities Designed For Seniors: A guide book to help activate those in senior care facilities. (Spiral-bound)

by Carren Love (Author)

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Product Description
Art Activities Designed for Seniors is a guidebook to help present art ideas and activities to seniors in care facilities. The purpose of this book is to make the tasks easier for the professional and non-professional caregiver. Inside you will find over 50 projects including a condensed 22-session art class. You will find projects that will help you assess the needs of your clients, as well as individual projects, group projects; full size templates to support the projects and ideas. The templates are designed to be photocopied for easy access, make as many as you need for each class.

For a period of five years I have had the opportunity of working with seniors, all with a variety of levels of mental or physical limits. Most of my clients live in group care homes or senior complexes. My job is to introduce art in a fun way that allows for enjoyment and interaction with others. Even though there is a lot of written and visual resource material available for arts and crafts I find most projects need to be redesigned to fit the needs of the seniors. For example I have found the clients may need more guidance or formal perimeters to complete the projects successfully. In this book you will find the ideas and designs that have worked for me. I hope in sharing what I have experienced can make the job of presenting art activities to seniors more rewarding for you as well as the clients.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 150 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (January 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1425108709
• ISBN-13: 978-1425108700
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,757,728 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Give me good ideas and structure, June 15, 2007

By	Chen Yu-Fah "Student" - See all my reviews

I am work as a coordinator at my senior adult center this summer. My job is to come up with activities help senior adults be active. I set up day trip to get seniors out. I also put together events. I have fun personality, but no experience before with seniors so book help me work with seniors on art kind of activities. They like creative.

2.0 out of 5 stars Expensive , October 9, 2008

By	integrity8 (CA) - See all my reviews

This seemed a little juvenille for seniors. Never used the book. Take a peak at a page or two before purchasing. I am saving the book for a few pages that might help me for an art activity for children.

3.0 out of 5 stars Disapointed, April 11, 2007

By	Linda Zabora (Washington, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really thought that this book would give me ideas with the seniors I volunteer with but it is more for someone who actually works for a facility. I would not recommend it to people who want ideas like me who volunteer twice a month for an hour with the seniors.