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Look Inside Elder Care Conversations: Amping Up Your Activity Programming

Download this free sample from a module from Elder Care Conversations! This sample contains helpful information and insight on activities of daily living (ADLs), and is filled with brain teasers, trivia quizzes, word games, discussion questions, and imagination and reminiscing exercises.

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Excerpted from Elder Care Conversations: Amping Up Your Activity Programming by David Troxel, M.P.H., and Kathy Laurenhue, M.A. Copyright © 2012 by Kathy Laurenhue and David Troxel. All rights reserved. 

What is Elder Care Conversations?

In 12 modules, this comprehensive, easy-to-use program of audio recordings, PowerPoint presentations, and printable materials provides:

  • Hundreds of practical ideas to start, improve, or transform your activity programming
  • Dozens of specific activity ideas that work with elders in all kinds of care settings, from skilled nursing to memory care
  • Downloadable MP3 audio files for each module
  • PowerPoint slides and outlines for staff training
  • Printable handouts for on-the-spot activities
  • A dozen MindPlay Connection™ titles providing 150+ themed trivia quizzes, word games, and discussion topics

PLUS this portable USB flash drive contains a comprehensive list of resources linking you to a virtual library of recommended books, websites, and other instructional materials.

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