Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Elderly People: Music, Meaning and Relationship

by Paula Crimmens

Book Overview

Paula Crimmens shows that working with older people can be made exciting and stimulating by using storymaking as a basis. Echoing the oral tradition of mankind, the book shows how to use a variety of traditional stories - including myths, folk tales and fairy stories - to work creatively with older people, particularly in groups. The book focuses around themes of empowerment and consolation, and includes groups of stories which can be used as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853024406
• ISBN13: 9781853024405
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.6"