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Brain Boosting Activities: A Resource Guide for Facilitators of Early Memory Loss Programs
By Kristin Einberger, Marian S. Smith, ed., The Brookdale Foundation Group. 187 pages
In this book, you will find cognitively stimulating and engaging activities and resources for facilitators of Early Memory Loss (EML) programs. This book focuses on the brain’s capability for growth by giving varied proven strategies for memory improvement including research, background information, advice, worksheets, and suggested activities which have the potential to achieve this goal. Many of these specialized activities also work well in virtual sessions and are useful for anyone wishing to “boost their brains” at home or during in-person programming.
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How to Start and Manage a Group Activities and Respite Program for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Families: A Guide for Community-Based Organizations
3rd Edition. The Brookdale Foundation. 74 pages
In this guide, you will find a compilation of best practices learned over the 30 years of developing and sustaining Group Respite programs around the country. Some of the program design elements described in the manual include site selection, volunteer recruitment and management, outreach and marketing, activity programming, budgeting, fundraising and program evaluation.
Field of Themes: 100 Activities for Our Senior Friends
by Barbara Fister and Sylvia Valentine
This user-friendly manual is a creative collection of 100 theme-based activities designed for social day programs and other groups settings. Each theme is based on a four-hour program that offers opportunities for organized and spontaneous interaction including socialization, exercise, fine motor activities, games and special projects.
How To Plan and Implement an Early Memory Loss Program
by Kristin Einberger and Janelle Sellick
This how-to-guide outlines a successful, innovative social day program model that addresses the special needs of people with early memory loss (EML). This EML program emphasizes memory enhancement through cognitive stimulation, education and socialization. The manual provides a practical, step-by-step approach to planning and developing this supportive program.
Promising Practices in Encouraging & Supporting Grandparents and Relatives
This publication, a collaboration of the National Association of Area Agencies
on Aging (N4A) and the Brookdale Foundation, is intended to make the aging
network across the nation aware of important and successful Relatives as
Parents Programs (RAPPs) operated by Area Agencies on Aging.
We hope this guidebook will encourage the replication of RAPP supportive services to relative caregivers by the many Area Agencies on Aging that serve older adults.
Note, hard copies of this publication are not available; however, you may download the guidebook here.
Developing Rural Relatives As Parents Programming: Promising Practices- A Collection of Practice Wisdom from Across Rural America was written by the University of Maine Center on Aging and funded by The Brookdale Foundation Group. The manual provides Relatives as Parents Programs (RAPPs) with a thorough review of the strengths, needs, and challenges of rural kinship caregivers, as well as practical tips on serving rural grandfamilies.
The information in the manual is based on a combination of published research and extensive surveys and interviews with both service providers and kinship caregivers. Service providers offered input about the unique needs of their rural clients, barriers rural clients may face in accessing services, and strategies that they have used to help their clients. Kinship caregivers across the country offered insight as to what makes great programming for rural grandfamilies. The result of this effort is a collaborative and comprehensive manual showcasing many of the promising practices in use across the country.
The complete publication is available for download at no charge by clicking here. Professionals in any field that work with grandparents raising grandchildren or other kinship caregivers are encouraged to utilize this manual to better support rural grandfamilies.
For questions or more information on the manual, contact Jennifer Crittenden at jennifer.crittenden@umit.maine.edu or by phone at 207-262-7923.
The Brookdale National Group Respite Program
An overview of the program established to meet the needs of persons with dementia and their caregivers. Includes information on the Brookdale Model, Community Collaborations, Participant Profiles, Partnerships and more.
The Brookdale Relatives as Parents Program
An overview of the program established to help meet the needs of grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of parenting in the absence of biological parents.