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Wholeness in Later Life

  • ISBN-13: 9781853024474
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Ruth Bright
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/1997
  • Format: Paperback (233.00mm X 157.00mm) 272 pages Weight: 334g
  • Categories: Coping with old age [VFJG]
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Ruth Bright is a Consultant Music Therapist who specialises in grief counselling and was Founding President of the Australian Music Therapy Association. She is a long-standing member (and immediate Past-President) of the Board of Directors of the Gerontology Foundation of Australia, a national charity which provides funds for research into aspects of ageing.
Part I: Wholeness and old age; realities and vulnerabilities; cultural aspects growing of older; sexuality and relationships; spiritual aspects of old age; physical challenges to our integrity; emotional and psychological challenges; dementia and wholeness; effects in later life of earlier impairment - ageing with a physical disability; effects in later life of earlier impairment - ageing with genetic and congenital impairments. Part II: The practicalities of music therapy in later life; individual work with elderly people; music therapy for those with physical disorders; music for a social support group programme; music therapy in the management of Aphasia; terminal care - can we retain our wholeness?; summary - captains of our destiny or pawns of circumstance?.
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