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Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Older People

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Paula Crimmens shows that working with older people can be made exciting and stimulating by using storymaking as a basis. Echoing the oral tradition of mankind, the book shows how to use a variety of traditional stories – including myths, folk tales and fairy stories – to work creatively with older people, particularly in groups. The book focuses around themes of empowerment and consolation, and includes groups of stories which can be used as a basis for discussion.Adopting a holistic and person-centred approach, which incorporates emotional and social needs, the author shows how the use of creative storymaking can: provide an experience of community for people who may be very isolated raise self-esteem provide contact and communication sustain the attention of members of the group longer than would be possible in one-to-one work provide entertainment and reduce boredom. The author provides many practical ideas for group activities based on the stories.
Guidelines and suggestions for running groups; the story section itself - including sections on facilitating a group's enjoyment and participation in a story - the importance of approach, lead in and using objects; stories with a central elderly figure - Yaaba, Babka and the Golden Bird, Granny Evergreen, the Old Woman and the Three Children, the Three Blue Hats, the Pedlar of Swaffham, the Three Dancing Princesses; addressing the theme of loss in working with elderly people - Demeter and Persephone, Coyote and Eagle, the Crescent Moon Bear; stories with the theme of home - the Water of Life, Maple Leaf Devil, the Bird of Happiness, the Widow and the Honey Pots, the Shining Fish, How the Villagers Found Wisdom; stories of marriage and the joy of union - Savitri and Satvayan, Gawain and Lady Ragnell, the Blue Flower of Beechy Hill, the Black Bull of Norway, Tam Lin, the Frog Princess.
Now, through this eminently practical book, people working with those who live with dementia have a key resoure to turn to …I have found it to be extremely effective in my own work with people living with dementia. This book is an imaginative and creative resource which I hope will become widely used in dementia care.
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