Keeping Active: A Caregiver's Guide to Activities with the Elderly

By Susan C Walker

In a friendly and understanding style tells how to: add meaning to the lives of elderly loved ones; locate and use community activities and resources; work with elders who suffer memory or other sensory loss. Intergenerational activities, special activities for the confused. Great resource for anyone caring for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or stroke patients.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096213337X
• ISBN13: 9780962133374
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: American Source Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 6.2" x 0.4"

Customer Reviews

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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!