Increasing correct participation in an exercise class for adult day care clients
✍ Scribed by Campbell D. Thompson; David G. Born
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
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✦ Synopsis
Facilities which provide services to the elderly oer a wide variety of activities to engage their clients. In many cases, however, clients do not participate in these activities, or they do not participate in ways which are likely to provide them with bene®ts. This study sought to increase meaningful participation in an exercise class by four elderly clients attending an adult day care program; in these four cases, the quality of their participation was seriously inadequate. Participants were praised when they participated correctly in an exercise, verbally prompted if they did not participate, and physically assisted to participate if they did not participate following verbal prompting. To show experimental control over exercise behaviors, a single subject multiple baseline design was used. The results suggest that clients attending facilities such as an adult day care program may be easily recruited to participate correctly in exercise sessions through the use of prompts and social reinforcers.