A Handbook of Valuable Activities for Seniors

By Felipe Cofreros Ph.D.

This book "A Handbook of Valuable Activities For Seniors" is useful tool for Senior and Adult participants to enrich their lives through a variety of recreational and social activities in an Adult Day Care. This book minimizes the teachers' extra effort in looking for activities which will suit the objectives for the different topics given to the participants in the Adult Day Care.

This book contains practical teaching objectives and varied activities for use in the Adult Day Care programs. These activities are explained in language that is clear and simple. Each of them is intended to develop the participants personality- his attitudes, habits, skills, knowledge and abilities. This book "A Handbook of Valuable Activities for Seniors" is also a reliable resource material to enhance the Seniors and Adults' potential creativity. It is also useful in channeling the extra energy of seniors and adults and the activities included could be a good basic experience.

The activities are designed to help maintain the independence of the seniors and adults in the community and based on an individual direct approach, while encouraging self-esteem, self reliance and achievement.

The contents of this book, however, are not prescriptive; they are merely suggestions and can be modified according to the need of local conditions.

Let this book be your guide as you explore new dimensions in your presentation of the different Activities for the Senior participants in an Adult Day Care.

Dr. Felipe Cofreros Ph.D.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jan 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781490799285

Felipe Cofreros Ph.D.

Felipe Cofreros Ph.D. spent more than twenty five years of aggregate experience in teaching literacy, adult education, pre-school, elementary, high school, college and the administration of instructional English as a Second Language [ESL] services among Indo-Chinese refugees [Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer and Hmong] in the International Catholic Migration Commission [ICMC], Philippine Refugee Processing Center [PRPC] in Sabang, Morong, Bata-an, Philippines for a decade. Felipe also taught English as a Second Language [ESL] in different countries in Asia and North America. Presently Felipe is one of the owners and the Executive Program Director of the International Adult Day Care, LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Felipe has authored more than a dozen of Children's Picture Books with comprehension questions for three years old and up geared for use in the Pre-School classroom; A Pre-School Math Workbook "Let's Build Our Math Skills WorkBook for children ages three years old and up; Effective Ways To Assess English Language Learners [For Intermediate and Advanced Levels]; One Accord - a inspirational book of Bible promises; A Handbook of Writing Activities for Intermediate and Advanced English Language Learners and English Workbook 1 for The Elementary Level. Felipe graduated as a scholar from the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City, Philippines with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education with specialization in Social Studies and Art Education. He got his Master's Degree in TESOL and Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from Barkley University, California, USA. Felipe obtained quite a number of certificates in different disciplines such as TESOL Teaching Certificate Course, Lingua Edge, LCC. TESOL Teaching Training Systems West Olympic Blvd., Beverly Hills, California, USA; Managing People for Maximum Performance in John F. Kennedy School of Management, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; The Roots of Learning: Society for Effective Affective Learning in Brighton, England, United Kingdom. GLORIA CRUZ is a naturalized American working at Century 21 Aadvantage Gold in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA as a multi-million dollar producing agent/realtor for more than two decades. Her area of specialization is selling and listing homes, vacant lots, traditional sales, short sales, bank owned properties and government owned properties. She is the the number 1 producing agent consecutively from 1996 to 2006; Top Listing Agent from 1996 to 2006 and voted as Best for Customer Satisfaction from Chamber of Commerce in the year 2000. She is a motivated individual with proven record of effectively coordinating real estate, business, and partnership transactions. Gloria is also one of the owners of the International Adult Day Care [IADC] in 2215 A Renaissance Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada. She co-developed and coordinated a highly successful "Orientation Day" program which provides seniors and adults an in-depth exposure to a wide range of activities and helped staff to relate their subject matter to the world of work. Provided assistance and technical expertise by offering consolidated services in developing, implementing, administrating, promoting and all aspects of the International Adult Day Care. She is responsible for the monitoring of different data management requirements such as appraisal data, data on various metric and measures used to evaluate performances and processes within the organization, data processes and projects. Assisted in the conceptualization and implementation of a training module for seniors and adults. In her spare time, Gloria writes and co-author Children's Picture Books with a Filipino-American Doctor of Education and author. Gloria got her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Marketing and Management from the University of East in Manila, Philippines. CORAZON BEPINOSA holds the position as the Facility Director and Food Supervisor and one of the owners of International Adult Day Care in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. She has a ServeSafe Diploma issued by ServeSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Examination which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute [ANSI] - Conference for Food Protection [CFP]. She formerly worked as a Housekeeping Supervisor and Fry Cook at Primm Valley Resort and Casino in Primm, Nevada. She co-implemented a seminar on Work-Value Ethnics for Hotel Staff and Professional Ethnics for Food Handlers employees. She was an extensive knowledge and expertise in Customer Service Relations and Services. She exemplifies integrity, compassion and above all a champion of humanity. She worked on many causes for humanity campaigns and has demonstrated a certain quality of professionalism with regards for "Nursing Patients" with critical care needs, as well as "Public Relations with community groups. She provided assistance and technical expertise by offering consolidated services in developing, implemented, administering, promoting and all aspects of International Adult Day Care. She has a certificate in Restaurant and Party Fair Course: Practical Chinese and Japanese cooking and baking course at the Culinary Art Institute in Manila, Philippines. She got a degree in Secretarial Course, Marikina Institute of Technology in Marikina, Philippines. Corazon writes and co-author Children's Picture Books with Filipino-American authors.

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Senior Editors: Dr. Ronald Jay Blassingame Ph.D.

Dr. Felipe Cofreros Ph.D.

Book Title Design: Charlene Rose Escolango Cofreros

Cornelius Hiponia Cofreros

Illustrations by: Dr. Felipe Cofreros Ph.D.

Sally Burrell

Evangellin Paulson

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ISBN: 978-1-4907-9929-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4907-9928-5 (e)

Trafford rev. 01/23/2020

CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Books by Dr. Felipe Cofreros Ph.D.

Drawing of the Face

The Male Profile In Easy Sequence

The Female Profile In Easy Sequence

Figure Drawing

Cartooning

Water Color Painting

Japanese Sumie Art

Bamboo Design

Making Thread Designs

Pen Flower Making

Forever Calendar Making

Flower Making

Paper Masks

Paper Tapestry

Making Cards

Book Marks

Easy Steps In Dancing

Cha cha cha

The Waltz

The Rumba

The Viennese Waltz

The Samba

The Foxtrot

The Tango

The Jive

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FOREWORD

This book A Handbook of Valuable Activities For Seniors is useful tool for Senior and Adult participants to enrich their lives through a variety of recreational and social activities in an Adult Day Care. This book minimizes the teachers’ extra effort in looking for activities which will suit the objectives for the different topics given to the participants in the Adult Day Care.

This book contains practical teaching objectives and varied activities for use in the Adult Day Care programs. These activities are explained in language that is clear and simple. Each of them is intended to develop the participants personality- his attitudes, habits, skills, knowledge and abilities. This book A Handbook of Valuable Activities for Seniors is also a reliable resource material to enhance the Seniors and Adults’ potential creativity. It is also useful in channeling the extra energy of seniors and adults and the activities included could be a good basic experience.

The activities are designed to help maintain the independence of the seniors and adults in the community and based on an individual direct approach, while encouraging self-esteem, self reliance and achievement.

The contents of this book, however, are not prescriptive; they are merely suggestions and can be modified according to the need of local conditions.

Let this book be your guide as you explore new dimensions in your presentation of the different Activities for the Senior participants in an Adult