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RLS* 223: Leisure and Aging

3 Credits
(Formerly THRC 230)
This course serves as an overview to the delivery of therapeutic recreation services to older adults. The course will assist the student in developing an understanding of the elderly and how activity intervention may be used to reach treatment and rehabilitation goals. The course will focus on issues such as the physiological, psychological, and socio-economic factors of the aging process, leisure resources, community and institutional services, and recreation in assisted living facilities and in long term care settings.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Fall



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