Center for Aging Research and Education Products

Dementia Friendly Toolkit: Role Play Simulations for Care and Community Settings

Developed with input from family caregivers, dementia friendly community groups and healthcare experts, this toolkit includes six multi-role simulations. Each reflects common challenges for people living with dementia, involving a bank, clinic, restaurant, grocery store or telephone, to help build communication and advocacy skills to respectfully engage people living with dementia.

This toolkit also includes facilitator and discussion guides, setting and equipment suggestions, additional information about each scenario and links to community resources. Short videos that can be used in conjunction with the toolkit can be found on the website of the Center for Aging Research and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing:

https://care.nursing.wisc.edu/dementia-friendly-toolkit/

This toolkit was developed for use by varied audiences, including students and professionals in healthcare and allied fields, businesses, agencies, service providers and community groups. Pricing varies by organizational size. We define small organizations as including community groups and schools, and large organizations as including companies, healthcare organizations and university departments.

Support for Older People Manuals

These products are the result of collaboration between researchers at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who have partnered with state governments and provider organizations in Australia and the USA. There are versions for people with and without intellectual disability.

Support for Older People with Intellectual Disability

The products listed below include:

• A manual developed with and for direct care workers who care for people aging with an intellectual disability. Manuals include information on several topics important to the health of this population, worksheets for gathering information that will help primary care providers determine what might be causing a resident’s decline in health, and tips for supporting people with chronic health conditions. Each manual is tailored for caregivers in a specific geographic location and includes local resources for the area. Please order the manual aligned with your location of interest.
• A trainer guide including a series of case studies, focusing on common age-related health conditions, with guidelines and suggestions for educational activities with staff. Versions are available for the United States, Queensland and Victoria, Australia.
• An electronic PDF of select manuals. You may download the full PDF version of these manuals for a fee of US $10. This download also includes a zip file of all Information Gathering worksheets as separate PDFs to print. See “format” column in the table below for items available as a PDF.

Support for Older People

• A manual developed for families and direct care workers who care for older adults without intellectual disabilities. Manuals include information on several topics important to the health of this population, worksheets for gathering information that will help primary care providers determine what might be causing a resident’s decline in health, and tips for supporting people with chronic health conditions. This manual was designed for United States audiences, though much of the content is applicable internationally.

If you purchase electronic versions of any of our products, you will find them attached an email in zipped folders.

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