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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"meaningful activities"”.
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Promoting wellbeing for individuals living with dementia in care homes by improving opportunities for engagement in meaningful activities.
… have identified the opportunity to engage in activities as important to their wellbeing. However, evidence suggests that individuals living with dementia in care homes spend the majority of their time in a state of passivity and inactivity. This thesis considers how it might be possible to …
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"""Everybody Here Used to Be Somebody"": Recapturing Self-Continuity in a Retirement Town"
… A wide range of club and volunteer activities, not specifically geared toward the achievement of self-continuity, enable the residents to repeatedly engage themselves in biographically meaningful activities and social environments. A sense of a perduring self thus sustained and …
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Occupational needs of chronic orthopedic trauma patients
… that deemphasizes functional outcomes of other meaningful activities, e.g., participation in physical exercise, education, sexual activity, home management, social roles, and participation. While mobility is important for overall health, engagement in other meaningful activities, e.g., childcare …
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The experiences of belonging of individuals transitioning from unhoused to housed
… having housing, social networks and engaging in meaningful activities facilitates this experience. Conclusion: Belonging is critical following homelessness and supporting individuals in supporting this outcome is a key homelessness prevention strategy.
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Blinded by Boredom: Examining the Effect of Boredom on the Ability to Anticipate Meaningful Experience
… finding relief in one of the many satisfying, meaningful activities available to them? This paper tests the hypothesis that bored individuals tend to make pessimistic predictions about the meaningfulness of potential activities, and this in turn leads them to eschew the very activities that …
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Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo
… are active listeners and thoughtful speakers in meaningful activities [Carr, M., 2000, 2001]) are part of the deep structure of a unique cultural context successfully supporting language revernacularisation. In addition the study develops critical insights into how RLS can be viewed as the …
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Percepção de idosos sobre o processo de transição ocupacional: do trabalho à aposentadoria
… as an opportunity to experience new occupational activities or resumption of meaningful activities. There are few studies that investigated how is this process of occupational transition. This study aims to understand how the elderly perceive the process of occupational transition from work to …
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Applying behavioral management skills training with employees in geriatric care unit to increase social interaction and communication with residents
… such as the possibility of participating in meaningful activities, communicating wants and needs, and socializing with others, may be negatively affected in individuals with a neurocognitive disorder (NCD, i.e., Alzheimer´s Disease). Due to deterioration of executive functions, such as taking …
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Connections: interventions to promote socialization and engagement among people with dementia
… music therapy, animal-assisted therapy, massage, activities-based interventions, behavioral management and combination therapies incorporating two or more of these interventions. Incorporating these effective interventions, a new program, Connections, was developed. The program includes a series …
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O uso de calculadora no ensino de matemática: uma análise na coleção de livros didáticos mais adotados na cidade de Cabaceiras–PB.
… literature and aimed to examine the proposition activities with collection of calculators in mathematics of elementary school (6th to 9th year) adopted in the city of Cabaceiras - PB. Used as a research collection "The Conquest of mathematics." In this collection we analyzed the activities …
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Montessori-Based Activities for Persons With Dementia: Effects on Engagement and Affect
… importance of engaging persons with dementia in activities. Implementing purposeful activities with persons with dementia has been demonstrated to reduce boredom and agitated behavior and to maximize the functional abilities of the individual. The important role of task analysis and adaptation of …
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A Sensory-Based Program to Enhance Occupational Performance for Dementia
… impairs an individual’s ability to engage in meaningful activities. Progressive deterioration associated with dementia impacts occupational performance and independence and quality of life. Sensory based interventions, such as drumming groups, have been hypothesized to be a non-pharmacological …
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Exploring youth participation in community development organisations in the Western Cape
… a positive contribution by getting involved in meaningful activities in their communities. The study's main recommendation is for increased efforts in education institutions, community councils and development organisations to involve young people in effective and instrumental participation in …
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Understanding occupational therapists' use of acceptance and commitment therapy in New Zealand
… therapy aims to increase engagement in meaningful activities in a strengths-based non-judgmental way. It combines talk therapy with real world skills building. Importantly in a New Zealand context, there is evidence to suggest that acceptance and commitment therapy is able to work well …
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An Exploration of Experiences that Influence Occupational Therapy Students' Motivations to Pursue Occupational Therapy as a Career
… healthcare profession that uses therapeutic activities to increase an individual’s, group’s, or population's participation in meaningful activities, otherwise known as occupations. The general underlying factors that motivate one’s decision to choose this career path is well established …
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The personal and contextual variables affecting the relationships between mentors and proteges in a regional program for the preparation of principals
… social aspects. The mentors' ability to plan meaningful activities and experiences based on their administrative experience was more important to the development of the relationships than were demographic factors such as age and gender. This study should extend the generalizability of Cobble's …
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In sickness and in wealth : hospitals, community benefits, and the Affordable Care Act
… their benefit dollars in preventative and more meaningful activities. By updating the community benefit standard to include periodic health needs assessments with input from diverse community representatives; requiring an implementation strategy that outlines how hospitals will address …
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Dementia friendly flying: investigating the accessibility of air travel for people living with Dementia
… the end of a person’s ability to participate in meaningful activities. However, accessibility for people living with dementia requires improvement across a range of settings. Anecdotal evidence and critical incident reporting suggests that air travel is not meeting the needs of people with …
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Where does the time go? An investigation of self-reported time allocation
… to report their time spent engaging in meaningful activities, managing life's negatives, and sleeping. It also asked participants to subjectively rate their experience of these life areas on a 1-10 scale. Pearson correlations, multiple regression analyses, and one-way ANOVA were used to …
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