num_pages: 92
description: The Lifestory Re-Play Circle is an active and interactive method to help frail and alert, disabled and able older persons value their lives. This drama therapy method, tested for three years in long-term care, medical day care, and geriatric wings of hospitals with patients with dementia, strokes, and paralysis, was given full endorsement by program evaluators representing nursing and medical staff, social workers, and gerontologists. It addresses psychosocial wellness even in those elders who are frail, depressed, and regressed. It relieves stress by offering opportunities to express and resolve feelings, connect through commonalities with others, and step into others' roles to gain deeper insight into themselves through pantomime, group poems, narration, action, and creative lifestory re-creation.This is a refreshing, perceptive aid to develop shared experiences and insight into one's self-worth for individuals in long-term care facilities, hospitals, community centers and similar settings.
language: English
title: The Lifestory Re-Play Circle: A Manual of Activities and Techniques
titlecomplete: The Lifestory Re-Play Circle: A Manual of Activities and Techniques
publisher: Venture Publishing (PA)