Designing a better day : guidelines for adult and dementia day services centers / Keith Diaz Moore, Lyn Dally Geboy, and Gerald D. Weisman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Setting the Stage for a Better Day -- Adult Day Centers: An Emerging Place Type -- Some Important Terms -- How This Book Is Organized -- PART I. CREATING AWARENESS -- 1. Putting ADCs in Context -- The Historical and Societal Origins of ADCs -- Adult Day Services Today -- Character Profiles of Three Common Day Centers -- 2. The Social/Spatial Structure Approach: Diagnostic Patterns in ADCs -- Pattern Seeking -- Patterns and Places -- Diagnosing Prevalent ADC Types

3. The Experiential Approach: Attributes of Place ExperienceA Vocabulary of Place Experience -- Attributes of Place Experience -- Experiencing ADCs -- Conclusion -- PART II. INCREASING UNDERSTANDING -- 4. ADCs, Places, and Systems -- A Model of Place -- The Placemaking Process -- Conclusion -- PART III. TAKING ACTION -- 5. The Process of Adult/Dementia Day Center Development -- A Guiding Image: Your Project Vision -- Where to Operate? Site Criteria -- Moving from Vision to Project Concept -- Conclusion

6. Determining Feasibility of an Adult/Dementia Day Center ProjectFinancial Feasibility Statement: The Pro Forma -- Needs Assessment: If You Build It, Will They Come? -- 7. Developing an Activity Program -- Valuing Strengths, Abilities, and Challenges -- Giving the Activities Program Direction: Strategic Orientations -- Life as Activity -- Health and Rehabilitation -- Choreographing the Daily Program -- Conclusion -- 8. Prescriptive Patterns to Facilitate Life as Activity -- Integrating Program and Setting -- Realm of Activity: Coming and Going

Realm of Activity: Walking and ExploringRealm of Activity: Daily Life Activities -- Realm of Activity: Cooking and Dining -- Realm of Activity: Being Outside -- Conclusion -- 9. Prescriptive Patterns to Facilitate Health and Rehabilitation -- Realm of Activity: Personal Care: Toileting -- Realm of Activity: Personal Care: Bathing -- Realm of Activity: Physical and Health Support Activities -- Conclusion -- 10. Evaluating Adult/Dementia Day Centers as Places -- Conclusion -- People -- Program -- Physical Setting -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C

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