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Silvermarie, Sue – Journal of Poetry Therapy, 1988
Describes a poetry group which encouraged the expression of memories and imagination among frail elderly residents of a nursing home over a period of nine months. Shows how it facilitated peer friendship formation, increased expression of affect, resulted in improved staff treatment of residents, and ended with the publication of an anthology. (SR)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Bibliotherapy, Frail Elderly, Nursing Homes

van Geen, V. M. C. – Gerontologist, 1997
Presents an intervention, used in the Netherlands, that empowers clients in residential care homes. The intervention comprises a standardized survey-feedback procedure in which residents' opinions on life and care in their particular home are gauged, discussed, and reported. Explores instrument validity, reliability, and its use in the home. (RJM)
Descriptors: Consumer Protection, Empowerment, Foreign Countries, Intervention

Hepburn, Kenneth W.; Caron, Wayne; Luptak, Marilyn; Ostwald, Sharon; Grant, Leslie; Keenan, Joseph M. – Gerontologist, 1997
Describes a workshop in which family members and friends of persons with dementing disorders who live in nursing homes develop stories of these residents' lives. The workshop is product-oriented, is not meant as a support group, and works best in organizations emphasizing individualized care. Stories should help staff members better understand…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Empowerment, Family History, Nursing Homes

O'Toole, Tom; Baum, Herbert M.; Logemann, Jeri A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1998
Examines the issues that language researchers may face when planning and executing research in facilities which are not traditionally or frequently involved in research with individuals who have language disorders. Addresses informed consent procedures, administrative approvals, staff education, and enlisting the help of staff speech-language…
Descriptors: Administration, Children, Educational Facilities, Exceptional Child Research

Shore, Annette – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1997
Explores adult developmental theories regarding implications for art therapy with impaired elderly. Examines the struggle inherent in the creative art process as a means to facilitate developmental struggle. Claims that artistic processes facilitate struggles, which can elicit conflict resolution and utilization of mature defenses with even…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Art Therapy, Case Studies, Conflict Resolution

Keith, Pat M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2001
Data was collected from ombudsmen (N=607) in nursing facilities about the factors that make their jobs difficult. Hypotheses about support, relationships with peers, and efficacy were tested. Support from facility administrators and residents contributed to efficacy, whereas help from other volunteers had a negative effect. Results point to the…
Descriptors: Long Term Care, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Self Efficacy

Tabourne, Carla E. S. – International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 1995
Examined the effects on veteran and novice participants of a life review program for nursing home residents with Alzheimers disease or severe cognitive dysfunction. Results confirm the impact of the Life Review Program on level of disorientation, social interaction, and life review. Evidence suggests that life improvements may be stored in memory…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Long Term Care

Whitlatch, Carol J.; Schur, Dorothy; Noelker, Linda S.; Ejaz, Farida K.; Looman, Wendy J. – Gerontologist, 2001
Adapts Stress Process Model (SPM) of family caregiving to examine predictors of depression in a sample of caregivers (N=133) with demented relatives residing in suburban skilled nursing facilities. Results suggest that caregiver depression is closely linked to how well resident and caregiver adjust to the nursing home environment. (BF)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Measures, Caregiver Role, Dementia
Pedlar, David; Walker, John – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2004
In 1999 Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) implemented the Overseas Service Veterans (OSV) At Home Pilot Project in response to the problem that a growing number of clients were on waiting lists for beds in long-term care facilities. The At Home pilot offered certain clients on waiting lists, who met nursing-level care and military-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Veterans, Pilot Projects, Nursing Homes
Ejaz, Farida K.; Straker, Jane K.; Fox, Kathleen; Swami, Shobhana – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to develop a reliable and valid family satisfaction instrument for use in Ohio's nursing homes. Design and Methods: Investigators worked with an advisory council to develop the survey. Purposive sampling techniques were largely used to select 12 small, medium, and large for-profit and proprietary facilities…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Health Facilities, Sampling, Federal Government
Motiwala, Sanober S.; Croxford, Ruth; Guerriere, Denise N.; Coyte, Peter C. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2006
Place of death was determined for all 58,689 seniors (age greater than or equal to 66 years) in Ontario who died during fiscal year 2001/2002. The relationship of place of death to medical and socio-demographic characteristics was examined using a multinomial logit model. Half (49.2 %) of these individuals died in hospital, 30.5 per cent died in a…
Descriptors: Dementia, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Probability
Iowa Univ., Iowa City. Coll. of Education. – 1991
This final report describes a project to revise a 60-hour postsecondary course for activity coordinators in long-term care facilities in Iowa, to train instructors to teach the curriculum, and to evaluate that training. Introductory material includes the following: a summary sheet on how course competencies were identified, how the materials were…
Descriptors: Frail Elderly, Group Activities, Long Term Care, Nursing Homes
Baines, Elizabeth Murrow – 1986
This bibliography of materials on the elderly as volunteers and volunteer work with the elderly was compiled from six databases: Sociological Abstracts, PsycInfo, Magazine Index, Health Planning and Administration, ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), and the GPO (Government Printing Office) Monthly Catalog (government publications).…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Caregivers, Case Studies, Citations (References)
Fitz, Don – 1984
The Client Observation Checklist (COC) was developed to evaluate Project ADAPT's intervention in three behavioral areas: bathing; dressing; and socialization. Project ADAPT is designed to provide services to meet the needs of chronically mentally ill residents of nursing homes. Specifically, the project provides staff trained to work with the…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Hygiene, Institutionalized Persons, Interrater Reliability
Safford, Florence – 1987
The myth persists that the elderly are institutionalized because their relatives do not care enough about them. Nursing home staff may not respond to family members' concerns about their relatives with any better solutions than to take their relatives home. Family response to this lack of solution may be retreat or retaliation. Thus the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Family Involvement, Family Role, Family (Sociological Unit)