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Designing a better day : guidelines for adult and dementia day services centers / Keith Diaz Moore, Lyn Dally Geboy, and Gerald D. Weisman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Keith Diaz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adult day care centers--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Adult day care centers.
- Adult day care centers--United States--Design and construction.
- Older people--Services for--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Older people.
- Dementia--Patients--Services for--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Dementia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : J. Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Organized into three parts--creating awareness, increasing understanding, and taking action--this book will be a key resource for professionals involved in creating and maintaining effective adult day services centers.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Setting the Stage for a Better Day; Adult Day Centers: An Emerging Place Type; Some Important Terms; How This Book Is Organized; PART I. CREATING AWARENESS; 1. Putting ADCs in Context; The Historical and Societal Origins of ADCs; Adult Day Services Today; Character Profiles of Three Common Day Centers; 2. The Social/Spatial Structure Approach: Diagnostic Patterns in ADCs; Pattern Seeking; Patterns and Places; Diagnosing Prevalent ADC Types; 3. The Experiential Approach: Attributes of Place Experience; A Vocabulary of Place Experience
- Attributes of Place ExperienceExperiencing ADCs; Conclusion; PART II. INCREASING UNDERSTANDING; 4. ADCs, Places, and Systems; A Model of Place; The Placemaking Process; Conclusion; PART III. TAKING ACTION; 5. The Process of Adult/Dementia Day Center Development; A Guiding Image: Your Project Vision; Where to Operate? Site Criteria; Moving from Vision to Project Concept; Conclusion; 6. Determining Feasibility of an Adult/Dementia Day Center Project; Financial Feasibility Statement: The Pro Forma; Needs Assessment: If You Build It, Will They Come?; 7. Developing an Activity Program
- Valuing Strengths, Abilities, and ChallengesGiving the Activities Program Direction: Strategic Orientations; Life as Activity; Health and Rehabilitation; Choreographing the Daily Program; Conclusion; 8. Prescriptive Patterns to Facilitate Life as Activity; Integrating Program and Setting; Realm of Activity: Coming and Going; Realm of Activity: Walking and Exploring; Realm of Activity: Daily Life Activities; Realm of Activity: Cooking and Dining; Realm of Activity: Being Outside; Conclusion; 9. Prescriptive Patterns to Facilitate Health and Rehabilitation
- Realm of Activity: Personal Care: ToiletingRealm of Activity: Personal Care: Bathing; Realm of Activity: Physical and Health Support Activities; Conclusion; 10. Evaluating Adult/Dementia Day Centers as Places; Conclusion; People; Program; Physical Setting; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8891-3
- OCLC:
- 923193392
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