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‘I was impressed with the accessibility of the book, offering a guided tour through the history, context and purposes of reminiscence therapy, the range of applications from promoting social and emotional stimulation to reminiscence as psychotherapy. It also provides a brief overview of its theoretical underpinnings… As a book for health professionals interested in reminiscence work, it is a must for the shelf… most importantly it emphasizes the need for adequate training and supervision for those undertaking this type of work… the authors [also] provide a very good working guide to the assessment process’ - Aging and Health
In this practical and accessible book, leading exponents of reminiscence work describe the purposes and techniques of reminiscence and set out detailed guidelines on how to implement and conduct a wide range of reminiscence activities with different types of client.
Highlighting its tremendous diversity and potential - and its special ability to allow people of all ages and abilities to communicate deeply about their lives - the authors separate out the different aims of reminiscence, which include intellectual or social stimulation, allowing people to leave behind them a cultural legacy, or a means of intergenerational communication. They show clearly how each can be directly beneficial either to clients or their carers, or for improving the culture of the arena in which the activity is being carried out.
Purpose Ten: Reminiscence as Oral History to Maintain or Improve Skills
Purpose Ten: Reminiscence as Oral History to Maintain or Improve Skills
Rationale
In this chapter, we will describe what oral history is and spend some time describing the benefits to older people of undertaking oral history. The main section will be its indirect uses - to provide social and cognitive stimulation.
What is Oral History?
Oral history has been developed as a subject area in its own right over recent years. A key figure is Paul Thompson of Essex University whose The Voice of the Past has been tremendously influential. Basically, Thompson pointed out that we are taught history in school as if it were unbiased, and ‘this is the only possible version of events’. In reality, he ...
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