Therapeutic Humor with the Elderly

"Therapeutic Humor With the Elderly" explores the use of humour as a tool in providing activity programmes for older adults. It provides new programme ideas for activity directors in all types of settings and highlights the benefits of using humour with the elderly, showing how vitalising humour programmes can be. It describes example programmes and provides information on specific activities to be used in humour programmes. Individuals seeking ideas in work with the elderly should find this book to be a ueful aid in planning and providing programmes to a variety of elderly individuals. Activity workers with other special populations should also find many practical ideas for using humour in programmes for older people. Social workers in long term care facilities, directors of senior centres, and recreation therapists in any setting should also find this book a practical resource. This book has also been published simultaneously as a monograph under the title "Activities, Adaptation and Aging", volume 17, number 1.