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Failure-Free Activities for the Alzheimer's Patient: A Guidebook for Caregivers | 
 enlarge | Author: Carmel B. Sheridan
Publisher: Elder Books
Category: Book
List Price: $10.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 132910
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 104
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0943873053
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.198976831
EAN: 9780943873053
ASIN: 0943873053
Publication Date: June 1987
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Product Description
This essential resource teaches professional anffanily caregivers how to improve the well-beingand raise the quality of life for people withAlzheimer's disease. For so many victims of Alzheimer'sdisease, failure fills their days. Now caregiversof Alzheimer's patients can turn to this resourcefor ideas and advice for safe, reassuringactivities to help the patient feel capable and involvedwith everyday life. Adapted to suit the needs andcapacities of the person with memory loss, theactivities are designed to raise self-esteem, relieveboredom, reduce feelings of isolation, develop anduse remaining skills, promote involvement withreality, and emphasize abilities that remain. Frommaking scrapbooks to holding sing-alongs, frombaking to dusting, each activity is described byclearly illustrated instructions and is supplementedwith appendices on supplies and further help.Failure-Free Activites For The Alzheimer'sPatient is for family members, nurse's aides,companions, or the occasionalvisitor.
"No caregiver should be without this book,"according to the Vancouver Alzheimer's Society.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Wealth of Ideas December 5, 2001
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
"What kind of activities are there for the Alzheimer's patient?" is a question that comes up often. I always recommend this book. Carmel describes all kind of activities: music, exercise, food preparation, crafts, gardening, solo activities, family games, and reminiscence. I especially like the chapter on reminiscence--with the life collage, memory book, memory box, and more. Activities are very important, as is explained in this book's introdution: "The more involved patients remain with the world around them, the more resourceful they become at finding ways to keep that world for slipping away."
A goldmine of activity ideas April 7, 2000
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
Thanks to this book, I have found dozens of creative ways to keep my mother (who is in the middle stages of Alzheimer's) involved and free from boredom. The activity ideas we found in this wonderful little book have improved my mother's quality of life tremendously and have made caring for her a lot easier and more enjoyable.
This is an exceptionally helpful book July 19, 1999
50 out of 50 found this review helpful
This excellent book provides dozens of ideas for keeping the person with Alzheimer's involved and stimulated. The focus is on using activities such as music, exercise and reminiscing to enhance quality of life. Family and professional caregivers can use these activities and many of the ideas outlined truly work wonders. This is undoubtedly the most useful book available on using activities with people with Alzheimer's.
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