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Recreation Professionals Building a Caregiving PartnershipTo try to stem the tide of increasing age is an impossible task. It seems that in working with the very aged one is always losing ground to the incoming waves of chronic illness. But the task of a recreation worker is not to try to hold back the water but merely to place barriers of sand in front of it to keep the breakers from crashing in and diminishing the life experience of the people they work with. Less metaphorically, that is to say those who provide activity programmes for the infirm aged need to provide a range of activity programmes which will help stimulate the quality of a patient's present life situation by encouraging independence and assisting with the adjustment to increased physical decline. Daniel Ferguson (1978, p.10, 11)