Senior Stimulation: Techniques and Activities for Well-being

Design of the Intervention

The Program Contains a Plan, Project, and Activities

Plan a project with project activities, tasks.

What is Planning?

Previously organizing an activity.

What is a Plan?

An idea laid out.

What is Software?

Realization of a more concrete plan.

What is a Project?

A process that includes a series of concrete activities that lead to an end, in order to specify what you want and how involved you think it is.

What is an Activity?

A set of actions that lead to an end to meet a defined objective.

What is a Task?

Something to do in particular.

Which of these is the action of the technical center? To do the activities.

Methodology

The form or manner in which we develop intervention.

Timing

Time distribution to perform various activities and tasks.

Planning

The calendar lists all activities performed.

Stimulation Techniques and Entertainment for the Elderly

The need to motivate and encourage at this stage of life involves the study of different actions and techniques that accompany the ADL with a therapeutic purpose. It varies by person, state, the cultural, familial, social, and second chances, time, space, and frequency.

Objectives:

• Helps prevent
• Restructuring of daily living
• Develop creativity and freedom of decision
• Keep your body (exercise)
• Breathing and relaxation techniques
• Auditory sensory stimulation

Therapies and Techniques to Feel Motivated:

1. Psychomotor therapy
2. Music therapy
3. Occupational therapy
4. Stimulation therapy group (talk groups)
5. Manual therapy
6. Various therapies

Therapies and Techniques to Feel Motivated

Psychomotor Therapy

It is the action by the body that acts as an intermediary for corporal functions. Psychomotor activity is aimed at the adult and child in a normal situation, as well as those with physical or mental disabilities. Geriatric psychomotor care is for the elderly.

Music Therapy

An indispensable element in entertainment and stimulation. If used more as a therapy, it helps to restore and improve health, both physically and mentally. The use of sound brings the experience of physical movement and mental stimulation.

Occupational Therapy

A treatment method that allows to rehabilitate, restore, and develop the most affected areas and maintain their physical and social skills.

Stimulation Therapy Group

Group work is a method that helps people to relate to each other.

Manual Therapy (Crafts)

This therapy does not provide for rehabilitation and recovery but rather maintaining creativity and teamwork.

Various Therapies

Various activities with different objectives, e.g., activities with the environment, visiting different places (theater, etc.).

Organize Activities

Title and name of the activity:

Duration:

Target:

Specific objectives:

Description and development:

Resource allocation:

Adaptation or different options:

Assessment process:

Session activity:

Steps to Follow to Carry Out an Activity

Implementation

Implement everything previously planned.

Considerations When Running:

• Create an optimum climate
• Motivate users
• People should not feel it is mandatory
• They must understand the activity
• The duration should be adequate

Schedule: They need boundaries and activities.

Hours: Instrument used to present the daily or weekly planning.

Timing: Organize complex activities in a short period of time.

Play as a Therapeutic Resource

The game is a very important tool in psychomotor therapy and its goal is the interaction of man and the world around them.

The Game: A Sort

Objectives: Ocular-manual coordination and strengthening of the muscles of the upper extremities.

Material: Former appropriate height tables, bottles, cups, plates, cutlery.

Development: This game is to classify objects based on color, object type, material, and size in the different compartments provided.