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Intergenerational activity analysis with three groups of older adults
— frail, community-living, and Alzheimer's | | Author(s) | Merle Griff, Donna Lambert, Mary Dellmann-Jenkins, Dorothy Fruit |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 22, no 6, September 1996 |
| Pages | pp 601-612 |
| Keywords | Children ; Living in the community ; Dementia ; Housebound ; Mobility ; Cognitive processes ; Social interaction ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study documents the effects of using different types of activities (i.e., cognitive, rote, active, passive) in fostering positive intergenerational exchanges between pre-school-aged children and three groups of older adults - frail, community-living, and elders diagnosed as in the early to mid-stage of Alzheimer's disease. Results suggested that, overall, simple and largely unstructured activities with one or two steps and very few rules can be most successfully used with all three groups of older people when interacting with young children. Community-living older people and children were found to enjoy the widest range of activities, while intergenerational contact involving the other two groups needed to be approached with care, in order maintain the older people's dignity, positive perception of the children towards the older generation, and the comfort of staff members. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970312012 A |
| Classmark | SBC: K4: EA: C6: C4: DA: TMA: TOB: 7T |
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