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Training nursing home residents to serve as group activity leaders
— lessons learned and preliminary results from the RAP project | | Author(s) | Michael J Skrajner, Jessica L Haberman, Cameron J Camp |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 11, no 2, March 2012 |
| Pages | pp 263-274 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Long term residents ; Activities of older people ; Group activities ; Participation ; Dementia ; Management [care] ; Training [welfare work]. |
| Annotation | This study aimed (1): to determine whether nursing home residents from several different long-term care facilities could effectively lead group activities; (2): to expand the number of activities available to residents by including a new type of activity for patients with more advanced dementia; and (3) to examine the amount of staff assistance needed by Resident-Assisted Programming (RAP) leaders. Data were collected from four facilities in the Cleveland area. Residents in these long-term care facilities were trained to fill the role of group activity leaders using a RAP training regime. RAP training enabled residents across a wide range of mental status levels to fill the role of group leaders for persons with dementia in two Montessori-based activities and in an activity which focused on persons with more advanced dementia, based on the work of Jitka Zgola. Resident characteristics linked with successful leadership were identified. The results demonstrate that long-term care residents are capable of leading a variety of group activities for persons with dementia, which increases the number of individuals available for leading activities within programmes and facilities providing care for persons with dementia. The scheme also provides the opportunity for RAP leaders to fulfil meaningful social roles in these facilities. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120710008 A |
| Classmark | LHB: KX: KX:4Q: G: HW: TMB: EA: QA: QW |
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