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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
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