remotivation

English

Etymology

re- +‎ motivation

Noun

remotivation (countable and uncountable, plural remotivations)

1. A form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients.
   • 1991, Paul K. H. Kim, Serving the Elderly: Skills for Practice, page 92:

     Neither reality orientation nor remotivation techniques helped these very old disoriented residents face present reality. Nor could they relate to the objects that the therapist used to stimulate awareness of present time in a remotivation group.