Families in Need: Living with the Effects of Alzheimer's Disease : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Services of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, July 25, 1992, North Babylon, NY. |
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Activities and Respite adult day agencies Alzheimer Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's disease ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSISTANCE Alzheimer's patients art therapist BABYLON TOWN Bencosme Bernadette Callanan Brookdale Center burden Community Programs Center Congressman Downey cost CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY day care program day care services DISEASE ASSISTANCE CENTER Elderly Day Services emotional environment facility FAMILIES IN NEED family caregivers family members Federal funding Glen Cove gram grants Group Activities hear HOCHBRUECKNER KEANE Kings Park LIAF lives Long Island Alzheimer's loved Medicaid medical model Medicare Memory Lane Club Mercy Haven mother music therapist Nassau and Suffolk Nassau County nursing home offer organizations participants person physical problem professional providing respite referrals reimbursement related dementia residents Respite Care Program respite program senior citizen Sheila Williams Smithtown social model day social model program song Sound staff subcommittee Suffolk County Respite support group Thank tients transportation TROTTA volunteer caregivers
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Page 1 - US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice at 10:07 am, in Room B-318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 58 - music therapy" means the use of musical or rhythmic interventions specifically selected by a music therapist to accomplish the restoration, maintenance, or improvement of social or emotional functioning, mental processing, or physical health of an older individual. (37) The term "neglect...
Page 85 - ... different times before. I recall hearing you when you were briefing us 2 years ago. I would state that both of you have grown under the responsibilities of your appointed offices and I believe you have also grown to depend on Mr. Underbill and I was much impressed by his testimony and his knowledge. The subcommittee stands adjourned. (Whereupon, at 12:30 pm, the hearing was adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair.) o...
Page 32 - To provide relief to family members caring at home for a relative with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia; to provide opportunities for participants to engage in a program of socialization and activities in a supportive setting to maximize their remaining intellectual and social abilities; to use trained and sensitive volunteers as program staff; to involve community-based agencies, churches and synagogues in the provision of services to people with Alzheimer's and their family caregivers;...
Page 58 - There is movement from active mastery of the environment to more passive approaches. Reminiscence and the use of fantasy increase as decline of mobility and other resources limit physical movement.
Page 59 - Rhythmic stimulation is extremely useful in establishing contact with disturbed or confused patients, as it offers a non-verbal means of self-expresion through an acceptable social activity.
Page 58 - Each of us. has our own pattern of activity, which provides for structure and routine in...