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| From ritual to drama and back in a rehabilitation day-care center | | Author(s) | Shulamith Lev-Aladgem |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 3, Fall 1999 |
| Pages | pp 315-332 |
| Keywords | Group work ; Rehabilitation ; Day centres ; Participant observation ; Israel. |
| Annotation | The intention is to present the form and meaning of specific, private, unofficial ritual among a group of older people in an Israeli geriatric day centre. The aim is to demonstrate how ritual activity generates the emergence of spontaneous drama, and how this drama is transformed back into ritual and vice versa. This pattern takes its shape through the transformative power of play, which keeps the axis of options for older people to express themselves ever open. The conclusion is that ritualistic activity provides a useful model for older, institutionalised people, opening new channels of communication between themselves and their environment, strengthening mutual trust and belief, and encouraging them to produce more active behaviour and authentic self-images. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022233 A |
| Classmark | IGG: LM: NMC: 3DB: 7H6 |
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