The Uses of Reminiscence: New Ways of Working With Older Adults

by Mark Kaminsky

Overview

The meaning and value of reminiscence in the lives of elders is beautifully explored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317824053
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/24/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	245
File size:	990 KB

About the Author

Mark Kaminsky

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: A Time for Reclaiming the Past

• I. Modes of Practice
• Transfiguring Life: Images of Continuity Hidden Among the Fragments
• The Passion of of Recollection
• Snug Harbor: Workshops at the National Maritime Union
• A Stage for Memory: Living History Plays by Older Adults
• At the Center of the Story
• Tapping the Legacy
• Heal, Body, Heal: Invocations to Hope and Health
• About Ending
• Minerva’s Doll
• II. Concepts and Practices
• The Uses of Reminiscence: A Discussion of the Formative Literature
• Reminiscence and the Recovery of the Public World
• Journey Through the Feminine: The Life Review Poems of William Carlos Williams
• Old People, Poetry, and Groups
• Realities of Aging: Starting Points for Imaginative Work with the Elderly
• A Kind of Odyssey
• III. Appendix
• IV. Notes