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| Increasing participation by "nonparticipating" individuals attending the morning news session in an adult day program | | Author(s) | David G Born, Campbell D Thompson |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation & Aging, vol 24, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 41-54 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Group activities ; Day services ; Participation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Participation in discussion of current events by older people in adult day care programmes, and in activity programmes in nursing homes, provides practice for individuals in talking about topics of interest to people in the more general community. However, many older people who seem capable of contributing to news discussions do not participate in these exchanges. Four adult day programme clients with long histories of non-participation in news discussions served as participants. After establishing baseline levels of participation, a three-part intervention was introduced. First, immediately prior to the news session a brief, personal discussion with a targeted client occurred as a form or "priming". Second, after a news session started, a targeted client was "prompted" for discussion by asking that client a few direct questions about a news story. Third, statements by targeted individuals to prompted comments were socially reinforced by the news director. Although levels of discussion by these clients remained low, each client subsequently engaged in at least limited "unprompted" discussion. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990318232 A |
| Classmark | HW: NM: TMB: 7T |
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