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- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
Activation with puppets is a wonderful way to provide stimulation for people with dementia. Through the use of puppets, the patients can experience a range of emotions and memories that can help to improve their quality of life. When working with people with dementia, it's important to create a safe and familiar environment. Puppets can help to create this environment by providing a sense of familiarity and comfort. Overall, activation with puppets can provide a wide range of benefits for people with dementia. It can help to stimulate their senses, provide a sense of familiarity and comfort, and engage them in a meaningful activity that can help to reduce their feelings of isolation and loneliness. If you're working with people with dementia, incorporating puppetry into your activities can be a great way to provide them with the stimulation and care they need. (This book ist a translation of my German book "10 Minuten-Aktivierung".)
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Content
Preface
Activation with puppets for dementia
The therapy question
10-minute activation
The activation situation
Creating a puppet-sociogram
Language and Vocal Range
Rehearsing with the puppet
Communication: Irony is out of place
10-minutes activation with a puppet
Guess the fairy tale
Quiz: 70s Popsongs and singers
Other ideas to activate people
About the author
Surftips
Where do the puppets come from?
Disclaimer
Preface
How the author came up with this idea
Professional puppetry for children and young people was my profession for a decade of years. With my own mobile theater, I traveled the country and entertained my audience with educational themes. After some changes in my professional life, I became involved as a job placement and career counselor in the field of care assistant according to § 53c (in Germany). Here, I realized how tremendous the demand from senior homes for staff members was and how enormous the need for meaningful activities for seniors was and still is today. This is particularly true in the area of dementia. This topic really caught my attention: I researched, read, had numerous conversations with caregivers, patients, and family members, and then I was absolutely sure that my previous professional experiences and the existing needs of this condition could be combined. And that was the right way to go. Now the little booklet is finished. All that remains for me to do is to wish you a lot of joy in reading and playing. Use the suggestions for successful 10-minute activations for your residents, patients, or family members!
Michael Felske
Activation with puppets for dementia Why it's really good for those affected
Activation with puppets is a wonderful way to provide stimulation for people with dementia. Through the use of puppets, the patients can experience a range of emotions and memories that can help to improve their quality of life. It's also a great way to engage them in a meaningful activity that can help to reduce their feelings of isolation and loneliness.
When working with people with dementia, it's important to create a safe and familiar environment. Puppets can help to create this environment by providing a sense of familiarity and comfort. They can also help to stimulate the senses, which can be particularly important for people with dementia who may have difficulty with their memory or cognitive abilities.
Overall, activation with puppets can provide a wide range of benefits for people with dementia. It can help to stimulate their senses, provide a sense of familiarity and comfort, and engage them in a meaningful activity that can help to reduce their feelings of isolation and loneliness. If you're working with people with dementia, incorporating puppetry into your activities can be a great way to provide them with the stimulation and care they need.
"The hand puppet, through its direct contact with the patient, will unlock their innermost being," writes the internationally renowned professional puppeteer P.K. Steinmann in his book "The Theatre Figure on the Hand." This sentence leads straight to the point: apathy and indifference are states that dominate the daily life of many dementia patients. However, with puppets especially animal puppets - people have been observed to open up. This is a fantastic opportunity to establish communication that was not possible before the use of hand puppets. A connection to consciousness is thus made possible. Large hand puppets are made of fabric and have a movable mouth as well as a movable arm and hand. This means that the player has access to a wide range of communication through body language with the puppet. As you may know, in conventional communication among healthy individuals, the majority of communication occurs through body language. For dementia patients, this channel is particularly important because communication through speech is often significantly impaired by word-finding difficulties. Addressing people through hand puppets reaches them on an emotional level and provides the perfect "stage" for interaction that - as the word suggests - activates people.
Svenja Forst reports in the forum for occupational therapy in dementia, www.ebede.net, about the use of animal hand puppets in occupational therapy. She writes about the high level of encouragement provided by the hand puppets, which, however, must be played realistically in order to achieve good results and desired effects. For Forst, this means, as described later in the book: practice, practice, practice! Forst excludes small hand puppets from achieving the desired outcome: "Small hand puppets from the toy store can give the person affected the impression of a puppet show, so that they do not feel taken seriously."
According to Forst's practical test with a Labrador puppy hand puppet, "many dementia patients showed strong emotions such as joy, surprise, curiosity, enthusiasm, and the need to build a relationship with the puppet. Uncertainty only arose when the dog played wildly. However, participants never felt dislike or fear." This highlights the importance of the person playing with the puppet. Empathy is paramount: the "star" is the person who is meant to be activated by you, not the player. Beyond nonverbal communication, the hand puppet could possibly function as a "trigger for a biographical conversation," according to Forst. This author also notes that the texture of the hand puppet plays a role: cuddly fur, for example, promotes "tactile-haptic stimulation (...) and increases the alertness and attention of those affected." This creates a simple desire for action - people want to touch and feel the puppet themselves. Taken together, hand puppets achieve a higher level of communication, "spark" more strongly on an emotional level, and evoke desires that can also be fulfilled. In my opinion, what more could you want? Take your chance, practice with a large hand puppet, and give people a beautiful moment in their daily lives!
The therapy question Concept and possibilities
If you enter the term "therapy puppet" in a search engine, you will immediately find offers for the large hand puppets I am writing about here. But is what you do with your puppet automatically a therapy or a therapeutic activity in the broadest sense? At this point, I recommend cautious and thoughtful arguments and to avoid overconfident quick shots. I'll also tell you why. "Therapy" comes from the Greek word "therapeia" which means servant or caregiver. Whoever does therapy for another wants to serve and care for them - in short, they want to help them. Serving and caring "is something time-consuming, continuous. So anyone who believes that therapeutic puppet play is a quick fix for any ailment is not thinking about therapy. (...) It is nonsense to believe that therapeutic puppet play can change the world," writes Barbara Scheel in her essay "Work with puppets, figures and shadows - sense and nonsense of therapeutic and pedagogical puppet play" in the book by Gudrun Gauda (ed.) Puppet and Mask Play in Therapy.
Activation with large hand puppets can only be, in my opinion, a method, a part of a developed therapy tailored to the individual person. It is a contribution to making the everyday life of the sick more beautiful and varied if this method is used regularly and with caution under the conditions described below. Large hand puppets are, in my opinion, only therapy puppets if they are also used within the framework of therapy. Otherwise, they are just cute, friendly, and pretty companions that are a decoration for any bookshelf. But they should not live there. You can find better suggestions for this later in this text.
