Description
Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure
Issues, Policy, and Practice
Author: Tedrick Ted
Language: EnglishSubjects for Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure:
Keywords
disability; education; haworth; press; retardation; senior; center; life; satisfaction; participation; Control Health Conditions; Leisure Participation Patterns; National University Continuing Education Association; Developmental Disabilities; National Art Education Association; IQ Cutoff; Therapeutic Recreation Specialist; Leisure Education; Quality Arts Programming; Adult Day Care Centers; Develop Exercise Programs; Leisure Education Programs; Recreation Integration; Degenerative Joint Disease; Leisure Participation; Consumer Satisfaction; Eric Document; Consumer Satisfaction Survey; Expressive Art Program; Creative Art Experiences; Exercise Band; Exercise ECG; Public Residential Facilities; Exercise Program; American Therapeutic Recreation Association
Publication date: 02-1997
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 05-2016
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
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If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you! Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure will help you improve your ability to instruct exercise and other fitness activities and, at the same time, increase your knowledge about aging and mental retardation and developmental disabilities. This combination of skills and knowledge is important to your understanding of your clients and their needs. You will assist them in leading a more active, structured life that will result in a higher sense of satisfaction in their daily living and health benefits that will speak for themselves.Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure gives you specific guidelines for establishing fitness programs as well as ideas for offering clients goals and incentives that will evoke and maintain their enthusiasm to participate. Using a proven model, the Arts/Fitness Quality of Life Activities Program, the authors show how careful planning and sequencing can produce successful results, such as peer interaction, flexible thinking, self-expression, and improved mental health. As you learn about the key factors for programming for this group of clients, you will also learn about:
- the demographics of this population
- leisure education
- training and cross-training with aging specialists and mental retardation staff
- community integration and for whom it is appropriate
- inactivity in later life and the complications it causes
- life satisfaction and leisure participation
- differences in physical and cognitive functioning among this population
- consumer satisfaction among older adults with developmental disabilitiesIt is never too late to introduce leisure activities into the lives of those with developmental disabilities. With encouragement and careful guidance, you can lead your elders/clients into a more active and healthy life. Use Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure as a guide to find activities and exercise programs that are appropriate, fun, and worthwhile!
Contents
Introduction
- Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities: A Brief Examination of Current Knowledge
- Health, Fitness, and Quality of Life for Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities
- Fitness and Exercise for Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities
- Expressive Arts Programming for Older Adults Both With and Without Disabilities: An Opportunity for Inclusion
- Enriching Later Life Experiences for People With Developmental Disabilities
- Consumer Satisfaction for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
- Integration and Leisure Education for Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities
- Issues Resolved and Unresolved: Look to the Future
- Index
- Reference Notes Included