ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a value base for effective activity interventions, and discusses the key principles for assessment and activity planning. In missing a crucial part of activity provision – assessment and planning – the home was engaging in old culture values and practices, and endorsing the 'slumped-in-the-lounge' lifestyle for the people living there. Planning successful individual activities demands that the activity worker take a really close look at each person's uniqueness: Personality, Health, Biography, and Cognitive Capacity. Automatic actions, postural and manual actions are well within the person's ability at Goal-directed action level. At Manual action level, in addition to being able to engage in automatic action and postural action, the person is very interested in objects and wants to discover the world through his hands; picking things up, moving them, tasting them, rolling them, dropping them. Automatic actions, postural and manual actions are well within the person's ability at goal-directed action level.
