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• It's Your Age - A Motivating and Informative Video (40 min.)
  26/05/2008
  Presented by R.T.E.’s Ceane Campbell – covers many of the challenges associated with growing older, and puts forward information, suggestions and solutions in as many areas as possible. A motivating and informative video. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Implementation
• Social Care Online - New Lifestyles for Elderly People: A Quality of Care Training Exercise
  26/05/2008
  Teaching pack designed to be used in a training exercise which raised many issues about the way we as individuals, and our caring services in general, relate to and affect the lives of people who have disabilities or problems associated with old age. Designed to be used in a wide range of settings and training contexts such as residential care, day care, hospitals, and home help services. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Implementation
• Mental Health and Well Being in Later Life
  26/05/2008
  In April and May 2004, three regional seminars focusing on mental health and well-being in later life were held across Scotland. The seminars, which built on previous work undertaken by Health Scotland with partnership organisations took place in the West (Paisley), East (Edinburgh) and North of Scotland (Nairn). Themes included: transitions, spirituality, developing and maintaining relationships, keeping healthy, keeping active and maintaining capacity and independence. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Needs Analysis
• STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE: How to Create and Coordinate a Contact the Elderly Group
  26/05/2008
  This tool outlines some guidelines on how to work in partnership to assist in starting a new Contact the Elderly group from scratch and how to organise it once it has been established. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Implementation | Preparation | Needs Analysis
• Psychological Services for Long Term Care Resource Guide
  26/05/2008
  This guide is a set of resources that captures the state of the art in psychological services to older adults and especially to those in long term care. These materials cover individual, family and organizational interventions as well as psychological and neuropsychological assessment of older adults in long term care. The problems encountered reflect the full range of symptomatic (DSM Axis I) and personality (DSM Axis II) areas including dementia diagnosis and management. This resource guide offers a series of books, book chapters and journal articles which collectively address this range of issues. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Needs Analysis
• Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online: A Toolkit for Trainers
  26/05/2008
  This is a resource for trainers - an Internet training program to help older adults find answers to their health questions. It's a free, downloadable Toolkit for Trainers that lets you accomplish two valuable goals -- introduce older adults to high-quality online health information (eg Health topics, drugs and supplements, the medical encyclopedia) and help them build Internet skills at the same time. The toolkit comes with a set of teaching materials that will work with beginning and intermediate students of the web, including easy-to-use lesson plans, student handouts, web searching exercises, illustrated glossaries and screen shots of web pages visited in class. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Implementation
• What Practitioners Shoud Know About Working with Older Adults
  26/05/2008
  This publication is designed to give psychologists and other health care providers important information to help guide their work with older adults. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Preparation
• Aging and Human Sexuality Resource Guide
  26/05/2008
  This website helps health professionals in training to find information to learn more about aging and sexuality, once they have realized how important this topic is to solve that problem. It contains a wealth of citations for empirical evidence on aging and sexuality, summary chapters, case presentations, and resources to use for education in teaching settings or with clients. It is our hope that it will serve to further openness and sensitivity in health care professionals, as they try to attend to a vitally important topic that does not lose its power with age. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Preparation
• Social Care Institute for Excellence: Ageism, Age Discriminatinon and Social Exclusion
  26/05/2008
  For people who work with older people, this tool asked you to consider issues which are central to understanding the experience of ageing and older age in contemporary society. Ageism, age discrimination and social exclusion diminish the quality of life which older people may enjoy. They also threaten their mental health. In spite of their negative effect on the daily lives of older people, however, ageism and age discrimination are often unrecognised, ignored, or even compounded in health and social care settings. And social exclusion has only recently been officially acknowledged as affecting older people as well as children and families. Settings: Residence for Older People
  MHP Steps: Implementation | Preparation
• Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide
  26/05/2008
  The Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide is designed to provide accurate, user-friendly information. The Guide is not a program but a tool that provides a framework for schools to assess their existing or proposed suicide prevention efforts (through a series of checklists) and provides resources and information that school administrators can use to enhance or add to their existing program. Settings: Education

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