The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer’,s Activities, Virginia Bell, David Troxel, Tonya Cox and Robin Hamon. This great new set of activities brings out the best in each client. More than 145 versatile, easy-to-implement activities can assist anyone on the staff to turn any interaction with a person with dementia into an activity that satisfies essential physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Each activity contains suggestions for personalizing the activity and matching it to the remaining strengths of the individual to ensure success and reduce challenging behaviors. Provides ideas on converting everyday activities into those with “knack,” create new activities out of old ones, provide activities between structured programs and events. Adapts activities for clients in later-dementia. Makes activities out of personal care and helps fill evening hours to alleviate sundowning. All are adult-oriented and flexible for staff and clients to add their own ideas. Volume Two expands and enriches the programming with 149 all-new activities. Like the first volume, fun and easy activities add meaning and enjoyment. Based on the feedback from first volume, suggestions come from various programs and focus on diversity, multiculturalism, and participants in thier 50s and 60s. 224/248 pages, softcovers.
