Aging

"I Remember..."

A Scrapbook Template

Topic: Aging, Teaching Techniques
Format: Teaching Tool
Population: Family Members
Age Group: Adult, Senior
Levels of Disability: All

People with disabilities often deal with the loss of a special person in their lives. This simple yet effective user guide teaches you to create an "I Remember…" scrapbook template to help individuals cope with loss.

Cultural & Spiritual Influences

Managing End of Life Care:Processing & Planning

Topic: Aging
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: All
Levels of Disability: All

This training outlines the belief systems of 20 prominent religious and spiritual practices. It discusses what people may need as they approach death and the variety of creative supports we can provide as caregivers and professionals to help meet these needs. In addition to providing nurturing ideas and closure for the dying individual, this training also provides critical support, opportunities for introspection and nurturing for staff.

Death & Dying

Helping Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities to Cope with Significant Loss

Topic: Staff Training, Counseling, Aging
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: Adult
Levels of Disability: All

This guide will help staff support grieving adults in their program in a number of significant ways.

Death & Dying: The Physical Process

Managing End of Life Care:Processing & Planning

Topic: Aging
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: All
Levels of Disability: All

Staff are on the front line to witness and provide care to individuals as they age and die. This training explores the feelings associated with this difficult time through sensitive and uplifting exercises and activities. It provides information about the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of people who are dying and explores supportive models for both caregivers and patients. The training also provides managers with information about hospice care and the administrative process associated with a death.

How to Design a Senior Room Environment

Topic: Aging, Staff Training
Format: Manual
Population: All
Age Group: Senior
Levels of Disability: All

When working with seniors, environmental design is critical for insuring safety and for promoting social, emotional and physical health. This How to Design a Senior Room Environment training teaches staff strategies for design and implementation to adhere to seniors\' specific needs.

Intellectual Disabilities & Alzheimer's Disease

Practical Strategies for Direct Service Professionals

Topic: Aging, Staff Training
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: Senior
Levels of Disability: All

This training explores the characteristics of the three stages of Alzheimer's Disease, how AD differs from normal memory loss and the difficulties of diagnosis in people with intellectual disabilities. It includes many strategies for working with individuals with AD and developmental disabilities including communication techniques, environmental changes and behavioral supports.

Keeping Seniors Active and Happy

Part 1: Easy and InexpensiveTable Games, Crafts and Movement Activities

Topic: Aging
Format: Manual
Population: All
Age Group: Senior
Levels of Disability: All

Do you have program participants whose activity level is changing due to aging or physical limitations? Is your team struggling to find recreational programming that is appropriate and motivating?
Keeping Seniors Active and Happy will provide ideas and inspiration for your team.

Navigating the Healthcare System with Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Conversation with Dr. Jarrett Barnhill

Topic: Staff Training, Aging
Format: Q&A, Video
Population: ASD
Age Group: All
Levels of Disability: All

Dr. Barnhill specializes in the diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities, and other neuropsychiatric disorders such as Tourette\'s syndrome and other movement disorders as well as psychiatric problems in patients with epilepsy. He is Director of the Developmental Neuropharmacology Clinic and a consultant in neuropsychiatry at Dorothea Dix Hospital, the Murdoch Center in Butner, NC, the Caswell Center in Kinston, NC, and Residential Services, Inc. in Chapel Hill, NC, as well as for Autism services.

Organizing a Memorial Service

Topic: Aging, Staff Training
Format: Lesson Plan
Population: All
Age Group: Adult, Senior
Levels of Disability: All

This guide helps the program prepare for and hold a memorial service including ideas for how to prepare participants for sharing thoughts and memories, music and healing.

Proactive End of Life Planning

Managing End of Life Care:Processing & Planning

Topic: Aging
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: Senior
Levels of Disability: All

This training presents the many issues associated with end of life planning in a user-friendly format. It includes information about creating Health Care Proxies, categories of guardianship, health care agency and burial arrangements. The training teaches how to hold an advanced planning meeting and includes a decision making flow sheet and practice session scenarios.

Rights of the Dying

Managing End of Life Care:Processing & Planning

Topic: Aging, Counseling
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: All
Levels of Disability: All

This staff training discusses the historical perspective of grieving, commonly held myths and the right for knowledge. It includes many activities for moving staff through a personal exploration of feelings of loss and death to prepare them for the difficult and critical task of supporting others.

Strategies for Working with Seniors

Topic: Aging, Staff Training
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: Senior
Levels of Disability: All

This comprehensive two-day training helps all staff build understanding, skills and empathy for working with aging adults with intellectual disabilities. Attendees learn how to best support physical, medical, emotional and social needs of seniors. Our staff at YAI find this training very practical and lots of fun.

Strategies for Working with Seniors

New Employee Orientation Packet

Topic: Aging, Staff Training
Format: Manual
Population: All
Age Group: Senior
Levels of Disability: All

This Day Service program New Employee Orientation packet is designed to meet the unique needs of people who are aging with a developmental disability. This resource can be used in conjunction with the Strategies for Working with Seniors powerpoint presentation or can be a stand alone training.

Understanding Grief and Loss

Managing End of Life Care:Processing & Planning

Topic: Aging, Counseling
Format: PowerPoint/Presentation
Population: All
Age Group: All
Levels of Disability: All

People with intellectual disabilities experience grief in much the same way that other people do. However, various cognitive and emotional factors can impact their ability to understand and cope with loss. This in-depth training explores ways that staff can support the grieving process.

Victor's Picture Chart

Helping Him Remember

Topic: Aging, Teaching Techniques
Format: Teaching Tool
Population: All
Age Group: Senior, Adult
Levels of Disability: All

This picture system is a simple but effective way to help someone with memory loss remember and practice expected behaviors.