Wesley Woods Adjunctive Therapy
The purpose of Horticultural Therapy, Music Therapy, Therapeutic Recreation is to re-motivate patients to participate in life interests and to assist them in making adaptations needed to continue to participate in these interests. Services are delivered to inpatients by qualified staff who have professional licensure, registration, or board certification. 
- Horticultural Therapy: Gardening makes you feel good. This is why so many people spend their spare time doing it. It is also one reason why horticultural therapy is an important part of the rehabilitation services at Wesley Woods. In addition to being enjoyable and relaxing, transplanting seeds, weeding and watering helps patients improve their fine motor skills, muscle tone and range of motion. Gardening can help confused or depressed patients because they become interested in seeing their plants grow and motivated to perform necessary nurturing activities. New studies are also finding that horticultural therapy can help physical and psychological healing in a way similar to meditation and other relaxation techniques. The Horticultural Therapy program at Wesley Woods makes use of two therapeutic courtyard gardens, a walking garden, therapeutic greenhouse and indoor growing stations.
- Music Therapy: "I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimers diseases because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged," Oliver Sacks MD, Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings. Music is one of the therapies used at Wesley Woods to treat patients with brain injuries, Alzheimer's Disease, chronic or mental illness and physical disabilities.
- Therapeutic Recreation: Therapeutic recreation is used with all types of patients to help them to be as active as possible, to express themselves creatively, and to find strategies to overcome limitations so that they can enjoy life more every day.
- Group recreational activities are used to improve interpersonal skills and facilitate social relationships. Group acceptance alleviates anger, isolation, loneliness and despair, feelings often verbalized by elderly adults who are also ill. Therapists facilitate groups that educate patients about how specific recreational activities can improve fitness, mental alertness, relaxation, socialization and independence.
- Individual recreational activities: Designed to improve physical abilities and promote self-reliance. Therapeutic Recreational Therapists help elderly clients adapt to new limitations or disabilities so that they can continue to participate in activities and interests that have been of importance to them in the past.
- Recreational activities for groups and individuals at Wesley Woods include: Walking and Therapeutic Exercise; Therapeutic Table Games; Simple Crafts and Holiday Projects; Leisure Education and Counseling; Adaptive Sports; Books on Tape; Psychosocial Skills Groups.
