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1. Aging in Place

   Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment

   By Ellen D Taira, Jodi Carlson

   Provide a comfortable living environment for the aging!Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As a therapist, designer, architect, builder, home planner, social worker,...

   Published April 25th 2000 by Routledge
2. The Mentally Impaired Elderly

   Strategies and Interventions to Maintain Function

   By Ellen D Taira

   Provide effective support and sensitive care for the most vulnerable segment of the elderly population--those with mental impairment--with the helpful methods and practical strategies outlined in this invaluable new book. Because of the increasing number of older persons with memory impairments,...

   Published August 28th 1991 by Routledge
3. Aging in the Designed Environment

   By Margaret Christenson, Ellen D Taira

   Aging in the Designed Environment is the key sourcebook for physical and occupational therapists developing and implementing environmental designs for the aging. The physical environment remains one of the most overlooked areas in environmental design. In order to move beyond this status quo,...

   Published June 21st 1990 by Routledge
4. Assessing the Driving Ability of the Elderly

   A Preliminary Investigation

   By Ellen D Taira

   This much-needed book explores the extensive literature on assessing the driving ability of the elderly and provides specific guidelines for practitioners working with the well and the frail older driver. As the number of elderly drivers increases, therapists are being called upon to evaluate...

   Published May 24th 1989 by Routledge
5. Rehabilitation Interventions for the Institutionalized Elderly

   By Ellen D Taira

   Gerontology professionals offer suggestions to enrich the quality of rehabilitation services offered to the institutionalized elderly. This exciting volume examines up-to-the-minute ideas--some that would have been unlikely even a few years ago--that focus exclusively on rehabilitation services for...

   Published February 5th 1989 by Routledge
6. Community Programs for the Depressed Elderly

   A Rehabilitation Approach

   By Ellen D Taira

   International experts offer insights into rehabilitative work with the depressed elderly, including examples of successful treatment models, assessment and prevention techniques, as well as other helpful methods of alleviating depression in the institutionalized elderly....

   Published February 22nd 1987 by Routledge
7. Therapeutic Interventions for the Person With Dementia

   By Ellen D Taira

   This pioneering volume taps the resources and skills of top rehabilitation professionals and applies them to the person with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias....

   Published December 31st 1985 by Routledge