Keeping Active: A Caregiver's Guide to Activities With the Elderly (Working Caregiver) [Paperback]

Susan C. Walker (Author)

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Taking part in everyday activities--getting dressed, helping around the house, visiting neighbors--can help an older person with physical or memory disorders maintain remaining skills and continue to feel involved in life. Organizing these activities can be a challenge for a family care-provider who may also be employed and raising children. This guide helps caregivers assess an older person's strengths and abilities and create a plan of appropriate activities. Written by a director of an adult day program, the book offers numerous, doable suggestions for overcoming losses and creating safe, pleasant events that can be shared by the whole family. Tips on communication, eating out, and enlisting the help of others are useful, as are lists of community resources to investigate when professional assistance is required. The checklist format, positive tone, and clear writing make this an excellent choice for collections on aging. Highly recommended.
- Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Amer Source Books (February 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915166925
• ISBN-13: 978-0915166923
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,431,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best place to start so far!, March 24, 1999

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This review is from: Keeping Active: A Caregiver's Guide to Activities With the Elderly (Working Caregiver) (Paperback)

I love this book! Ever feel like your Elderly loved one sits in a chair all day with no direction and no hope? As a long distance caregiver for my Mom, I often felt that way. I miss our little trips to the country together and the time we just spent sitting on the front porch talking and watching the birds. This book gave me focus again that life does not have to become dull and useless and hopeless because physical and mental frailties limit once easy activities. Even long distance, this book gave me things to do that have made a big difference in both our lives. One example: after some research and recommendations, I found a beautician over the telephone who specialized in Elder Hair! A once fairly easy task of making an appointment had become too complicated, so she just didn't do it. Now my Mom has a regular reason to get up and out of the house. She calls me after her appointments sounding happy and awake. I'm convinced that staying active and feeling useful can sometimes be the best medicine! I recommend this book!