Active Older Adults - Ideas for Action
Author: Lynn Allen
This manual provides a collection of 15 award-winning fitness programs for seniors. The ideas and activities, which have been gathered from programs across the country, are presented in a consistent and easy-to-understand format. Directions for implementing the programming ideas are included, as are sample charts, brochures, registration and safety forms, newsletters, and a listing of resources that will ensure a successful program. Active Older Adults presents a full spectrum of approaches to helping seniors get and stay fit. Some of the programs provide introductions to basic fitness principles while others explain how to lead older adults in specific activities, such as strength training, line dancing, and water walking. There are also low-stress programs for individuals with cardiovascular or joint problems.
Robert Topp
This manual provides examples of previously developed activity programs for older adults, as well as an extensive list of resources including publications, associations, vendors, and experts in the field of exercise programming for older adults. The purpose is to bring together a collection of fitness programming ideas for the older adult. The editor claims the manual will help solve the dilemma of many activity directors who work with this population. The editor and contributors do a good job of presenting ideas for fitness programs, but they do not address other critical issues in program development, including needs assessment and evaluation. This book is written for practitioners who are interested in developing fitness programs for older adults. The editor appears to be a credible authority in this area as evidenced by experience in developing such programs. The manual is divided into two sections. Section I presents examples of various activity programs that have been previously developed for older adults in the U.S. The second section is a listing of older adult activity resources. These resources include fitness-related organizations, individuals with expertise in the area of senior fitness, and printed materials. The manual omits a generic plan for senior activity program development. Such a generic plan might include documenting the need for a program, developing a program with a budget, and formative and summative evaluations. This is one of the few publications in the field which has attempted to document and describe previously developed activity programs for older adults along with resources for developing such programs. However, there is no critique of these programsprovided, nor is there an outline of how to select an appropriate program or evaluate a program's effectiveness.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Robert Topp, PhD, RN (Medical College of Ohio School of Nursing)
Description: This manual provides examples of previously developed activity programs for older adults, as well as an extensive list of resources including publications, associations, vendors, and experts in the field of exercise programming for older adults.
Purpose: The purpose is to bring together a collection of fitness programming ideas for the older adult. The editor claims the manual will help solve the dilemma of many activity directors who work with this population. The editor and contributors do a good job of presenting ideas for fitness programs, but they do not address other critical issues in program development, including needs assessment and evaluation.
Audience: This book is written for practitioners who are interested in developing fitness programs for older adults. The editor appears to be a credible authority in this area as evidenced by experience in developing such programs.
Features: The manual is divided into two sections. Section I presents examples of various activity programs that have been previously developed for older adults in the U.S. The second section is a listing of older adult activity resources. These resources include fitness-related organizations, individuals with expertise in the area of senior fitness, and printed materials. The manual omits a generic plan for senior activity program development. Such a generic plan might include documenting the need for a program, developing a program with a budget, and formative and summative evaluations.
Assessment: This is one of the few publications in the field which has attempted to document and describe previously developed activity programs for older adults along with resources for developing such programs. However, there is no critique of these programs provided, nor is there an outline of how to select an appropriate program or evaluate a program's effectiveness.
Rating
3 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | ||
| Marketing Guide: Tips for Promoting Your Fitness Program or Event | ||
| A Report of the Surgeon General: Physical Activity and Health for Older Adults | ||
| Pt. I | Program Ideas | 1 |
| Exercise Challenge | 3 | |
| 5 Plus 5 | 7 | |
| Line Dancing for Seniors | 51 | |
| Maple Knell Wellness Center | 53 | |
| Moving Targets | 67 | |
| Oak Hill Village Fitness Club | 75 | |
| Partners in Fitness, Inc | 79 | |
| Plano Senior Games | 87 | |
| S.E.E. S.A.W. Exercises (Seniors Exercising Effectively While Sitting Around Waiting) | 93 | |
| Silver Sneakers | 103 | |
| The Village at Duxbury | 109 | |
| Vital Life Center - "It's Never Too Late to Start Feelin' Great" | 117 | |
| Walk Well | 127 | |
| Water Walking | 133 | |
| Young at Heart | 141 | |
| Pt. II | Resources | 153 |
| About the Editor and the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association | 193 |
Fed up and Hungry: Women, Oppression and Food
Author: Marilyn Lawrenc
This collection expands on Susie Orbach's claim that obsessive eating or non-eating behavior is an individual, albeit political, response to a "complex set of social circumstances" in which women find themselves. Theoretical pieces here bolster her views, exploring the neopuritanical replacement of sex by food, compulsive eating as anger, and symmetries between the bulimic and anorexic internalization of ego boundaries and strategies for control. Essays highlighting alternative therapies are full of case references and the compelling voices of sufferers.
Publishers Weekly
In the spirit of Orbach's seminal book Fat Is a Feminst Issue, the authors of this enlightened collectionoriginally published in the U.K.write from professional and personal involvement with the work on eating disorders being conducted at the Women's Therapy Center in London. Orbach maintains that obsessive eating or non-eating behavior is an individual, albeit political, response to a ``complex set of social circumstances'' in which women find themselves. Theoretical pieces here bolster her views: they explore the neopuritanical replacement of sex by food as ``the focus of guilt in women's lives''; compulsive eating as anger denied other, socially legitimate avenues of expression; and symmetries between the bulimic and anorexic internalization of ego boundaries and strategies for control. Essays highlighting alternative therapies are fertile with case references and the compelling voices of sufferers, like the anorexic who asserts that ``becoming what we are requires existential courage to confront the experience of nothingness.'' This book offers both solace and insight and is a vital contribution to a field where the need for a holistic approach grows with frightening urgency. (October)
