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
ArtCare
The story of a model program designed to bring growth and meaning to the lives of the people who attend and work at an adult day center through sculpture, dance, storytelling, fabric art, ceramics and gardening. Provides tools/models for creating your own program. 60 pages, 4-color.
Cost: $30 plus shipping/handling. Purchase now.
A King in Milwaukee
Watch artist David Greenberger transform interviews with 60 Milwaukee elders into 38- songs, a CD (Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time) and a powerful concert performance with the Paul Cebar Stage Ensemble. Learn Greenberger's unique approach to the "art" of conversation with older adults, particularly those experiencing memory loss.
Includes: 30 min doc, 2 special features
Watch a clip here
Cost:
DVD Individual $25; Institutional $45 Purchase Now
CD Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time: $15 Purchase Now
Artistic Journals/Texts of the Milwaukee-based Interviews: $5 Purchase Now
Download the FREE Discussion Guide here: KingInMilwaukee_dicussionguide.pdf
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
This method opens storytelling to everyone by replacing the pressure to remember with encouragement to imagine. Proven to improve the quality of engagement between staff and residents in long term care, and provides the building blocks for effective, person-centered care. Includes history, theory, and specific steps to this unique method.
Cost: Manual: 42 pages $30.00 DVD: Captures the method in practice, 12 minutes Free Manual and DVD together: $30.00 Purchase Now
TimeSlips Storytelling Kit
At last! A beautifully designed, keepsake binder full of 50 images, sample questions, and pages for you to add your own stories. Ideal for use one-on-one, or with a group. The kit complements our training manual.
Cost: $50 Purchase Now
TimeSlips T-Shirts, Buttons and Mugs
Now available from Cafepress (separate website). Wear your convictions! Forget Memory: Try Imagination (front) and TimeSlips creative storytelling project (back) makes a great gift for friends who live or work in care communities. CLICK HERE
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. $15.00 for Volume 2 (Volume 1 sold out) Purchase Now
2009 Next Step Think Tank White Paper: How can we radically transform activities in long term care?
FREE and downloadable. 30 pages.
Leaders in the arts and in aging services, students, family caregivers, and people with memory loss joined together to think out of the box about how we can bring meaningful engagement and build community in long term care, whether that means people living in their own homes or in congregate care settings.
"Dialogues in Best Practice" White Papers
Download (FREE) 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 2009: Theatre in Health Education
A discussion featuring Laura Jacqmin (playwright), Merri Biechler (playwright), Tracy Hoffman (MD), and Barbara Leigh (Milwaukee Public Theatre).
Power of Theatre in Healthcare Education-white paper 10.22.09.doc
February 2009: "There's No Place Like Home"
Featuring Jerry Weisman, Rob Frediani, Charlotte John Gomez, and Lynnea Katz-Petted
Dialogue in Best Practice Notes 2.25.09.doc
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 the challenges of changing the culture of care for people with dementia. From the social to the physical environment, you will find a range of ideas about implementing changes to support person-centered care.
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.
FREE
The UW-Milwaukee Aging in Community Senior Housing Competition: From Concept to Reality, February 2007
The CAC and the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP) co-hosted "Aging in Community" in 2007. Key figures in Gerontology teamed with architects to brainstorm innovative ways to address senior housing needs. This new white paper outlines a "how-to" model for implementing a similar program in your community.
FREE
Partnerships in Aging and Family Caregiving: Getting Innovation into Practice, September 2008
Dr. Rhonda Montgomery hosted CAC's 2008 Think Tank, and posed the questions: "What are the phases of applied research in the area of family caregiving? And how can we find and foster strong partnerships through those phases?" This white paper revisits the day's activities and discussions, and offers compelling insights on building academic-community partnerships.
FREE
After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life, Lecture by Thomas Cole, September 2007
CAC-sponsored a discussion with medical humanities expert and historian Thomas Cole in September 2007. Cole posed the questions: What are the vices, obligations, and virtues of older adults in a time of expanding longevity? In a "post-Erickson world?"
FREE
Talk Back Move Forward: 100 Years of Alzheimer's Disease
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 dementia care and research that surrounds it. A perfect teaching tool for any setting.
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
Kyoko Naturally
A film by Chris Thompson
A social worker might label Kyoko as a "hoarder." But 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. A great teaching tool. 15 minutes.
Cost: Individual: $25.00, Institutional: $45.00 Purchase Now
Kyoko Naturally Discussion Guide
Annie Lloyd
A film by Ceclia Condit
This short film (17m) by award-winning experimental filmmaker Cecelia Condit explores issues of aging, mortality, mother-daughter relationships, and late-life love and creativity. Rich with provocative images, the film and discussion guide invite us to question our individual and cultural attitudes toward death, dying, and love across the life course.
Cost Individual: $25.00, Institutional: $45.00
Annie Lloyd Discussion Guide
