Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Importance of Activities and How to Get Started; 1. Dementia: The Basics; 2. What Are Activities For?; 3. Getting to Know Your Audience; 4. How to Assess a Resident for Activities; 5. Life Stories; 6. Care Planning Activity; 7. The Value of Timetables; 8. Getting People to Join In; 9. Recording What You've Done; 10. Sensory Activity; 11. Environment and Reality Orientation; 12. Using Activity to ''Solve Problems; 13. Assessing the Risks; 13. Budgeting and Money Stretching; 15. Trouble; Part II: But What Can I Actually Do?; Art; Books; Cooking; Crafts; Daily Living; Exercise; Games; Gardening; Knitting; Linking with the Community; Music; Reminiscence; Rummage; Sensory; Spiritual; Theme Days; Trips Out; Afterword; Resources; References; Index.
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The realistic and highly practical emphasis of the book and the way it is written in a very user-friendly style, means that everyone working in residential Care Homes would find this book an invaluable tool for their work... This book could comfortably replace endless shelves of notes on activities and is of course much more portable and compact than file pages... this book is a really excellent tool for every Care Home for Older People and is highly recommended to all those who are building a person-centered approach to dementia care.