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If you have ever found yourself frustrated by the lack of printed
materials for ideas to be used in conducting classes or activities
with older adults, look no more Educational Activity Programs for
Older Adults is an innovative guide for planning programs that meet
the social, recreational, rehabilitative, and educational needs of
older adults.This valuable resource includes detailed instructions
for two activity programs and a list of events for each month of
the year. Particular emphasis is placed on holidays and the events
surrounding them, with every possible detail provided--history and
culture, program overview, preparation, arts and crafts activities,
and music, food, and costume ideas. The resourceful and skilled
authors have also included a list of topics for every day of the
month, which the creative activity professional can use to plan
additional activities or generate discussions.Use this practical
volume to offer new, unique, and effective instructional programs
for older adults. The variety of the activities illustrates the
wide range of choices and the limitless creativity you can use in
program planning. The focus is on the individual and what benefits
him or her most. You will learn how to prepare for each project and
how to teach it--with step-by-step descriptions. Educational
Activity Programs for Older Adults is a comprehensive book that
gives you a wealth of ideas for flexible and fun projects that will
motivate and educate the older adults with whom you work.Highlights
of this useful book . . . theories related to aging that provide
general background knowledge two activity programs and list of
events for each month of the year a list of monthly events that
contains at least one topic for every day of the month educational,
stimulating, and fun activities for program participants and their
instructors complete details of activities that develop specific
motor skills and cognitive functioning in older persons an overview
of the background of each holiday, as well as a thorough
explanation of how to implement the program flexible programs to
meet the needs of older adults step-by-step instructions for
planning and teaching each activity lists of convenient materials
for each project ideas for arts and crafts activities, music, and
food that are appropriate for each holiday celebration ideas for
activities that encourage individual participation, enabling older
adults to express their interests, talents, and areas of expertise
This first book-length treatment of the life and work of Christine
Frederick (1883-1970) reveals an important dilemma that faced
educated women of the early twentieth century. Contrary to her
professional role as home efficiency expert, advertising
consultant, and consumer advocate, Christine Frederick espoused the
nineteenth-century ideal of preserving the virtuous home--and a
woman's place in it. In an effort to reconcile her desire to
succeed in the public sphere of modernization and consumerism with
the knowledge that most middle-class Americans still held
traditional beliefs about gender roles, Frederick fashioned a
career for herself that encouraged other women to remain at home.
With the rise of home economics and scientific management,
Frederick--college-educated but confined to the drudgery of
housework--devised a plan for bringing the public sphere into the
domestic. Her home would become her factory. She learned how to
standardize tasks by observing labor-saving devices in industry and
then applied this knowledge to housework. She standardized
dishwashing, for example, by breaking the job into three separate
operations: scraping and stacking, washing, and drying and putting
away. Determined to train women to become proficient homemakers and
efficient managers, Frederick secured a job writing articles for
the Ladies' Home Journal. A professional career as home efficiency
expert later expanded to include advertising consultant and
consumer advocate. Frederick assured male advertisers that she knew
women well and promised to help them sell to ""Mrs. Consumer.""
While Frederick sought the power and influence available only to
men, she promoted a division of labor by gender and therefore
served the fall of the early-twentieth-century wave of feminism.
Rutherford's engaging account of Christine Frederick's life
reflects a dilemma that continues to affect women today--whether to
seek professional gratification or adhere to traditional family
values.
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