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Everyday activities with older adults

A practical guide for residential care homes and home settings

Valentina Busato, Chiara Cecchinato, Sara Girardello

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 17x24cm

Pages: 200

ISBN: 9788859046042

Publication date: 01/03/2026


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This volume offers a wide range of practical interventions, from cognitive and emotional stimulation to motor, manual and recreational activities, including innovative approaches such as the Montessori-Inspired Method for Older Adults (M.I.M.A.) and music therapy. The book provides a comprehensive pathway to better understand ageing in its various forms — healthy, pathological and “successful” — and to design activities genuinely focused on wellbeing.

The manual guides professionals step by step in planning and delivering activities, including observation grids, assessment scales and numerous practical worksheets with ready-to-use materials. The proposed activities are flexible and adaptable to different levels of autonomy and functioning. The volume stands out for its practical, hands-on approach, clear and accessible language, and the wealth of ready-to-use resources, offering activities that can be tailored to diverse settings and levels of ability.


PRESENTATION
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION

I. UNDERSTANDING AGEING
1. Reflections, history and stereotypes
2. Typical and pathological ageing
3. Changes in cognitive abilities
4. What happens in the case of dementia?
5. Lifespan psychology and successful ageing

II. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
1. Assessment of the older person
2. Non-pharmacological treatments in geriatric care
3. Cognitive activities
4. Emotional activities
5. Motor activities
6. Self-care and environmental care activities
7. Creative and craft workshop activities
8. Cultural activities
9. Recreational and leisure activities
10. Spiritual activities: the religious dimension
11. Music therapy-based activities

III. TOOLS TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
1. Tests
2. Assessment grids
3. Materials for cognitive activities

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY