Products & Resources
CAC is proud to have created or sponsored the creation of several innovative products that are helping to change the culture of long term care.
Almost Home
A highly acclaimed, stunningly intimate PBS documentary that takes you inside a year-in-the-life of a nursing home trying to implement culture change.
Cost: Individual: $45.00, Institutional: $75.00 Purchase Now
Balancing and Connecting Program (BAC)
Learn how to incorporate simple interventions into daily care to decrease agitation and other difficult behaviors in people with moderate or severe dementia. Based on evidence from research conducted by many leaders in dementia care, these studies show positive, statistically significant results.
Cost: 43 pages. CD Included $30.00 Purchase Now
Serial Trial Intervention (STI)
The STI is an innovative approach to meeting pain and other unmet needs of people with dementia who can no longer clearly express themselves. The manual can be used as an in-service education program for professional caregivers or as an independent study manual.
Cost: 30 pages. CD Included $30.00 Purchase Now
TimeSlips Training Manual, DVD
TimeSlips is a group storytelling technique that encourages people with memory loss to exercise their imaginations and creativity. It provides the building blocks for effective, person-centered care. The training manual introduces readers to the theories behind and specific steps in practicing this unique method. Full-sized images included.
Cost: Manual: 42 pages $30.00 DVD: Captures the method in practice, 12 minutes $65.00 Manual and DVD together: $75.00 Purchase Now
The Arts and Dementia Care Resource Guide
The Arts are one of the most powerful tools for connecting with the people with dementia and for improving the experience of caring for them. This Resource Guide is the first to help people through the challenging work of beginning, running, and sustaining an arts program.
Cost: 50 pages. $15.00 Purchase Now
A Guide to Supporting Family Caregivers Through the Alzheimer's Disease Trajectory: Grief and Personal Growth.
This manual is based on results of a study of 201 spouses and adult children of person's with Alzheimer's disease. It is targeted to professionals and paraprofessionals who work with family members of persons with dementia.
Cost: Free. 71 pages. CD version available upon request (ott@uwm.edu).
TimeSlips Avanti Cards
Support the TimeSlips Project with your purchase of a variety box of Avanti greeting cards. Perfect for facilitating a TimeSlips session, or for personal use.
Cost: 10 Unique images per box. $15.00 each Volume 1 or Volume 2 Purchase Now
"Dialogues in Best Practice" White Papers
Download overviews from the CAC "Dialogues in Best Practice" series, held monthly during the academic year. Designed to get to the heart of practice and evaluation issues in a variety of key areas in aging, the forums aim to ignite ideas for innovations in long term care.
Cost: Free
October 2006: What IS Best Practice? How do we know what we know?
November 2006: Best Practices in "cultural competence:" What works to ensure a diverse workforce in aging services?
December 2006: What do Organizations need to make Best Practices stick?
October 2007: How to Best Communicate End-of-Life Issues with Older Adults with End-Stage Dementia and their Families
End Stage Dementia and Culture Change Roundtable, November 2005
This white paper captures the ideas, experience, and questions of experts from a wide array of disciplines as they discuss some of the challenges of changing the culture of care for people with dementia. From the social environment to the physical environment, you will find a range of ideas about implementing changes to support person-centered care.
Cost: Free
Creative Expression and Dementia Care: Finding Meaning in Dementia, June 2006
When rational language fails, creative expression offers new channels for communication through movement, gesture, poetry, music, and images. Read what experts in the field had to say about the benefits of creative expression in dementia care when they gathered for a 2006 think tank, summarized in this free white paper.
Cost:Free
After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life, Lecture by Thomas Cole, September 2007
In this CAC-sponsored lecture/discussion with medical humanities expert and historian Thomas Cole on September 20th, 2007, Dr. Cole posed and discussed the question: What are the vices, obligations, and virtues of older adults in a time of expanding longevity? In a "post-Erickson world?" This white paper includes the primary tenents of Dr. Cole's lecture, including the Q & A discussion.
Cost: Free
Talk Back Move Forward: 100 Years of Alzheimer's Disease
What is Alzheimer's? What are our hopes and fears when facing it? Told through vivid photographic portraits by Jim Herrington, and interviews with personal and professional caregivers, people with memory loss, and leading medical researchers, TBMF urges us to do just that - talk back in order to move forward the culture of care and research that surrounds it. A perfect teaching tool for any setting from support groups to graduate classrooms.
8 minutes . Click here to view using Windows Media Player; click here to view using QuickTime Player; or order a DVD for the cost of shipping and handling.
TBMF Discussion Guide
Memories in the Making (MIM): Creative Storytelling Through Art for People with Dementia, Training Manual and I'm Still Here, Book of Artwork and Accompanying Stories from MIM Sessions
This manual describes the process, objectives, and benefits of the Memories in the Making intervention and provides information about what you need to get started. The accompanying book is filled with colorful expressions of the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of people with dementia. A unique resource for anyone interested in creative methods of helping people with memory loss.
Cost: 37 pages, Manual; 99 pages, Book. Sold as a package. $75.00
Kyoko Naturally
A film by Chris Thompson
A social worker might call Kyoko a "hoarder." Someone who hoards collects excessive amounts of things that have seemingly little or no value. Clearly, Kyoko is also much, much more. Ebullient and gregarious, Kyoko sets about helping her new friend Chris to achieve his goal to become a filmmaker. The film raises myriad questions about aging. 15 minutes.
Cost: Individual: $25.00, Institutional: $45.00 Purchase Now
Kyoko Naturally Discussion Guide
