title: Teaching poetry writing to the old and the ill.
abstract: When people are separated from the activities and relationships that make life so passionately interesting, they are separated from real accomplishment. A poet's non-therapeutic approach to writing led a group of ill and handicapped nursing home residents, aged 59-93 years, to find new strengths of feeling and ideas. Above all, it gave them the real accomplishment of some beautiful poetry.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009518:New York; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D014956:Writing / Q000193:education*