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Helpful
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6 Steps to Individual Disaster Preparedness
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Starting Your Personal Disaster & Emergency Preparedness
This toolkit is a resource for Senior Center directors
and others to help seniors and caregivers prepare for disasters
and emergencies. There are six steps which have been divided
into sessions that have been planned out for instructors. Each
comes complete with a supply list of items to gather for the session
and visual aids. Tips for instructors are also provided.
 How
to Use the Toolkit
The
Entire Toolkit in One File
(By Section)
It’s
In the Bag!
Food & Water
Essentials
Heat,
Light, and Energy Essentials
Medications
and Toiletries Essentials
Making
a Personal Plan
Putting
it all Together -
Important Emergency Tips
Federal
Records Retention Schedule
The
Duke Family Support Program
offers a variety of resources for those caring for people with Alzheimer's
disease and/or dementia.
Some of these resources have been produced to help professionals
in care settings to deal with both the Alzheimer's patient and family
members of the patient. Some of the publications are listed below.
Items are available to N.C. residents at no charge or for a small
fee.
List of publications
Set
of Senior Center Booklets:
When Your Friend Has Memory Problems:
For the Senior Center Participant
by Edna Ballard (1993)
This booklet is designed to help the senior center participant
understand, accept and learn to respond more sympathetically to
other senior center participants with early signs of memory impairment.
Alzheimer's
Disease: For the Senior Center Director
by Edna Ballard (1993)
This booklet is to help the senior center director better integrate
people with Alzheimer’s in senior center activities.
Working
With Family Caregivers of People with Memory Disorders: A North
Carolina Information & Assistance Toolkit
by
Lisa P. Gwyther and Edna Ballard (2002)
For all aging and social services staff with one section of materials
to distribute directly to families.
More Information About the Toolkit and a Link to Download
This dementia-specific toolkit for information/referral or Helpline
staff has 3 sections:
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Basics about memory disorders
- Telephone
counseling and referral strategies for aging network staff,
and
- Single-sheet
handouts to copy for family caregivers on using services and
responding to the person with dementia from diagnosis through
terminal care.
(Steps to Success and NIA Caregiver Guide are
included in package.)
Get
Connected!
Linking Older Adults with Medication, Alcohol, and Mental Health
Resources
The development of this Tool Kit was a joint effort between the
US Administration on Aging and Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration and the National Council on Aging.
It includes:
- Program
Materials, Fact sheets
- Promoting
Older Adult Health Guide
- Substance
Adult Among Older Adults: A Guide for Social Services Providers
- How
to Talk to an Older Person Who Has a Problem with Alcohol or Medications
(pamphlet)
- Aging,
Medicines and Alcohol (pamphlet)
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Good Mental Health is Agingless (pamphlet)
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It Can Happen to Anyone (video)
You can order a Get Connected Tool Kit free; call toll-free at:
1-800-729-6686.
"Birthday
Greetings" Request From the President
Live
Well, Live Long
A health promotion and disease prevention site for providers from
the American Society on Aging and funded by the a grant from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The
provide strategies and tools for professionals, in stand-alone modules,
available free on the Internet. Each module is designed for use
by professionals to complement existing health promotion programs.
Center
for Healthy Aging - Model Health Programs for Communities
This site offers encouragement and assistance to community-based
organizations serving older adults to develop and implement evidence-based
programs on
health promotion, disease prevention, and chronic disease self-management.
Evidence-based programming translates tested program models or interventions
into practical, effective community programs that can provide proven
health benefits to participants.
The
Center serves as a resource center for aging service providers to
implement healthy aging programs. Resources provided include: manuals,
toolkits, research, examples of model health programs,and links
to websites on related health topics.
The site was developed with assistance from the UNC
Institute on Aging.
Affordable
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Affordable
Rental Housing in NC
New
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