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GERO
T I P S Online
TEACHING TOOLS
On
this page GERO T I P S Online
features links to useful web tools for teaching about
aging. Please
email us with your comments about these tools or with
suggestions for other teaching resources. Thank you.
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AGING
SIMULATION as TEACHING TOOL |
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This frequently used aging
simulation exercise individualizes the consequences
of physiological aging by forcing participants (i.e.,
family caregivers, nursing students, or health care
professionals) to experience functional losses
often associated with aging. By doing so, it brings
home the meaning of functional impairments in a very
effective way.
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~deppen/teach.htm |
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References:
Wood, Monika Deppen, "Experiential Learning for
Undergraduates: A Simulation About Functional Change
and Aging." In Gerontology & Geriatrics
Education, Vol. 23(2), 2002.
Wood, Monika Deppen, "Experiential Learning
About Aging: A Simulation Exercise For Undergraduate
Students." In Dena Shenk and Jay Sokolovsky,
eds. Teaching About Aging: Interdisciplinary and
Cross-cultural Perspectives, 3rd ed., Association
for Anthropology and Gerontology and Association for
Gerontology in Higher Education, 1999.
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ORAL
HEALTH and the OLDER PATIENT |
| Oral
Health for African American Elders
A Speaker's Kit,
developed by Ann Slaughter, DDS, MPH.
This powerpoint presentation on Oral
Health for African American Elders,
titled "Take
Charge of Your Oral Health: It's Never Too Late!"
was designed as a tool to teach about the
causes of tooth decay and tooth loss as well as to
demonstrate that oral health and body health work
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Linking
Oral Health and General Health: Issues of the Older
Patient
The
educational module,
Linking
Oral Health and General Health: Issues of the Older
Patient, developed
by Ann Slaughter, aims to address a general lack of
awareness of the links that exist between oral health
conditions and one’s overall health status affects
health care decisions on an individual, provider and
policy level.
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CASE
STUDIES as TEACHING TOOLS |
Case
Study I:
Restraint Use to Control Behavior and Siderails to Prevent
Falls
for PDF version, click
here! |
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Case
Study II:
Siderail Use - High Risk for Falls
for PDF version, click
here! |
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WEB
SITE as a TEACHING TOOL |
THE NEW WORLD OF GROWING OLDER
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| Aging
in America
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narrated slide show on Aging in
America with topics, such as |
| Introduction |
Staying
Engaged |
Youth
in Age |
Helping
Hands |
Aging
Together |
with
narrated
slide show |
Finding
purpose
during retirement |
The
spirited side
of longevity |
New
solutions
for elder care |
Love
& loss during
the golden years
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| Aging
in America won the 2002 American
Society on Aging's National Media Award, the
National Press Club's Online Journalism Award,
a World Press Award, and three top awards from
the National Press Photographers Association.
Eight
years ago, photographer Ed Kashi and reporter
Julie Winokur started documenting the changing
face of growing older in America. Two years
ago, MSNBC.com brought you “Years ahead:
Aging in America,” with photography and
audio reporting about youthful seniors and innovative
elder care. In
2003, MSNBC.com publishes an updated report
on how seniors are staying engaged in their
later years, and the love and loss that accompanies
growing old together.
Click
here (or on the underlined
title above) then launch the slide show on the
MSNBC website.
More
Picture Stories
from an earlier work by Winokur and Kashi;
s ee also, Aging
in America: The Years Ahead by www.talkingeyesmedia.org.
Winokur has collaborated with her husband, photojournalist
Ed Kashi to produce a series on social trends
in America. Aging in America emerged as a major
issue, one that will grow in importance as the
nation’s demographics continue to shift.
This project is supported in part by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the Open Society Institute
and the California Endowment.
Winokur’s and Kashi’s work on this
subject culminated in the MSNBC web site, a
book and a traveling exhibition.
Related
Links and how to purchase
an “Aging in America” book, video
and print.
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