Beyond_Bingo

Beyond Bingo The book I chose to read and review for this paper was Beyond Bingo. This was a sixty-two page book written by Sal Arrigo, Jr., Ann Lewis, and Hank Mattimore. This book is a guide book of sorts for those in the industry whom specialize in working with the aged. The authors of this book have several years of experience working with the aged, and have written a sequel since. Beyond Bingo has a total of seven chapters plus an introduction and afterward. Seven chapters may not seem to be that many but in the case of this book I believe it to be too much. The chapters are full of ideas for activities and some of the chapter break ups could have been avoided by reassigning the activities into other chapters that seem to fit it better. As an example there is a “Crazy Ideas” section all of the ideas in this section can be split up into the other categories: Services for Seniors, Community Services, Intergenerational Programs, and Fund Raising. Each category while doing a good job of following with it’s heading needs some work on the composition and flow from book, activities, aged, written, senior, people, ideas, given, give, chapters, working, wonderful, seem, resources, just, idea, great, dance, crafts, children, calendar, bingo, whom, think, thing, super, suggested, style, someone, since, sexy, several, seven, services, section