To make arrangements or schedule training dates please contact: Anne Morrison at 520-626-5803.

Alzheimer's Disease: Pieces of the Puzzle Directed Care Training Program for Assisted Living

This two-day training is provided for groups of approximately twenty persons or more. It can be presented in any appropriate location with the State of Arizona. The training includes handouts, a 12 hour certificate of completion (upon successful completion of all required tests) and a 14 hour certificate of attendance.

The training begins with a relaxation module to promote a better understanding of the stresses associated with caring for persons with dementia. Participants are lead through exercises that will teach them how to take care of themselves.

Other subject areas that will be covered through lecture, videotapes and practice exercises include:

• Definition of Directed Care
• Knowledge About Dementia
• Practical Approaches to Communication
• Practical Approaches to Activities of Daily Living
• Practical Approaches to Problem Behaviors
• Practical Approaches to Recreation

Cost:
          In Tucson: $45.00 per person
          Outside Tucson: $45.00 per person (plus travel expenses)

To make arrangements or schedule training dates please contact: Anne Morrison at 520-626-5803.

Empathic Exercise

This exercise, facilitated by one of the Center's trainers, allows participants to experience what it is like to grow older. As part of the exercise, each person is furnished with a packet of items that will simulate the disabilities many people experience as they age. After donning these, the participants are asked to accomplish a series of everyday tasks, made more difficult, if not impossible, with the additional items they are wearing. The exercise also includes a true/false quiz to test the participants' knowledge of aging, an unfair hearing test, information about the aging process and a discussion about how the exercise made them feel.

It can be tailored to fit into specified time periods between 1 and 2 hours.

Provided for:

• Groups of 10 - 50
• College/high school classes
• Health care providers
• Case managers
• Any group in the field of aging services

Cost:
          $50 per session for groups up to 20
          Training provided outside Tucson would incur travel expenses

The Center also provides detailed instructions for this exercise free of charge to individuals who would like to present this exercise to employees, classes, etc.

To make arrangements or schedule training dates please contact: Anne Morrison at 520-626-5803.

The Aging Game

This exercise, facilitated by one or more of the Center's trainers, allows participants to experience aging after 50 in terms of health, financial stability, independence and overall happiness. On the role of a die, participants can win, lose, play it safe or take chances with their finances, health and happiness. They can experience both the successes and difficulties that people encounter as they age. Much of this is dependent on good choices, but often, as in life, it is a matter of luck. Some participants will remain healthy, wealthy, independent and happy until the end of life, others will experience disability, dependence on others, poverty and unhappiness as they age. This is often a very powerful experience for participants because, unlike the empathic exercise, and more realistically, each participant will have a different experience of aging.

Provided for:

• Groups of 10 - 50
• College/high school classes
• Health care providers
• Case managers
• Any group in the field of aging services.

Cost: 
          $50 per session for groups up to 20
          Training provided outside Tucson would incur travel expenses.

To make arrangements or schedule training dates please contact: Anne Morrison at 520-626-5803.