Description

Meal Time Matters At Home

Wish you had the time to create an effective training program to instruct home caregivers on proper and safe dining assistance?

Meal Time Matters At Home is a COMPLETE TRAINING PROGRAM that builds home caregivers' skills related to dining, swallowing disorders, and safe feeding assistance. Topics covered include: normal swallowing, signs and symptoms of disordered swallowing, diet and liquid consistencies, oral care, preventing dehydration and malnutrition, assistive eating devices; and safe meal time guidelines. (This project was funded by the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation.)

This program includes EVERYTHING you need:

• CD with a 90-minute PowerPoint presentation
• Trainer's speaking text for each slide
• Four interactive exercises lasting 10-20 minutes each
• Participant handouts
• Mealtime assistance checklist
• Learning assessment (pre- and post-test)

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Also Available:

• Meal Time Matters (for nursing assistants and others)
  
• COMBO ORDER: Meal Time Matters & Meal Time Matters — At Home . Save $10.

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Target Audience

 A training program designed to teach home caregivers proper and safe skills related to dining, swallowing disorders, and safe feeding assistance.

Author

Jennifer A. Brush, M.A., CCC-SLP, is an internationally published researcher, educator, and long-term care consultant currently in practice in Northeast Ohio. Ms. Brush specializes in geriatric care, rehabilitation programming, and interdisciplinary activity development for dementia. As a sought after speaker, she offers interactive and educational presentations that help audiences to bridge the gap between current research findings and the care needs of their clients and communities. Ms. Brush has first hand applied research experience as she has served as the Principal Investigator on both government and private foundation grants. She is the co-author of A Therapy Technique for Improving Memory: Spaced Retrieval, and Time Well Spent with the Older Adult. She is the editor of IDEAS for a Better Visit, as well as the author of numerous articles related to cognitive disorders, memory loss, and dementia.