Creative Arts With Older People

Janice McMurray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

1996
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-6040-2 (ISBN)

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With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few books on expressive arts for older people, this unique, new volume is ideal for professionals who provide art activities for residents in adult homes and retirement communities.Creative experience can facilitate the expression of ideas and feelings, increase sensory stimulation, improve self-esteem, and improve social relationships. Creative Arts With Older People provides time-tested suggestions to stimulate the creative process among older adults, resulting in numerous physical, psychological, and social benefits. The author, an artist and a social worker, describes dozens of activities that have proven effective in her many years of working with older people--painting, movement, poetry, sculpting, puppetry, dramatic expression, and more. She explains the goals and advantages of each activity, includes a list of materials needed, and details the step-by-step process for conducting each activity.Creative Arts With Older People is a practical and valuable book for activity directors in adult homes and adult health care units, and workers in adult day care centers, adult psychiatric facilities, and senior centers.

Janice Mcmurray

Contents
Foreword

Introduction
Finger Painting
How to Paint a Rainbow for People Who Have Never Painted With Watercolors
Painting Trees in the Health Care Center
Working in Clay
Pocket Babies
Fish Printing
Key Cats
Displays and Banners
Portrait of Mrs. H.
Self-Portraits
Objects in a Paper Bag
Pressed Flowers
Parties
Favors--Or Is This Art?
Puppetry
Working With Persons Suffering From Confusion and Memory Loss
Using an Overhead Projector
The Poet and the Pudding
Writing a Christmas Play
Laughter
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
The Two-Way Street
End Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.3.1996
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 212 mm
Gewicht	226 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-6040-X / 078906040X
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-6040-2 / 9780789060402
Zustand	Neuware