On The Go With Senior Services

Author : Phyllis Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Go with Senior Services written by Phyllis Goodman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite. While serving the senior population is a standard service in public libraries, it has traditionally focused on in-house programs and homebound services. On the Go with Senior Services is different. With this inspiring and practical guide, your library can rejuvenate its in-house services with new programs and also take them on the road—to retirement and assisted living communities, adult day care programs, and nursing homes and rehab centers. With such diversity in the senior population, this book describes strategies for designing senior programs that fit your community's needs. It offers a trove of templates for programs that range from crafts, word games, pop culture, pets, holidays, humor, mysteries, technology, and music. It offers tips and suggestions on how to interact with seniors, including those who may have a variety of physical and cognitive needs. There are also guidelines for working with individuals suffering from dementia. A robust list of further resources is provided. The growing population of seniors presents librarians with new challenges and opportunities, and this book is a valuable guide to navigating and embracing them.

Author : Ashley Brooks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538148838
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senior Services Today written by Ashley Brooks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior citizens (frequently referred to by the more inclusive term “older adults”) are one of the largest and fastest growing demographics in the world. Public libraries have a duty to serve these individuals with the same level of care and opportunity for participation that is afforded to younger generations. This book explores older adults’ values and needs and describes the many ways libraries can serve them in effective ways. Senior Services Today: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a comprehensive guide to library services for this important community. Chapters cover these critical areas: Engaging Older Adults in Library Programs and Services Understanding Demographic Differences Marketing to Older Adults: Strategies Programming Ideas for Older Adults in the Modern Age Enhancing Technology Accessibility for Older Adults Community Outreach: Serving Outside the Library Specialty Collections Items Continuing the Library’s Relationship with an Aging Population While many times libraries tend to allocate budget and funding to flashier, brighter programs aimed at a more youthful audiences, this book shows how and why that same enthusiasm should be applied to crafting an engaging senior services plan. Gone are the conventional days of bingo and knitting circles; while those programs certainly have their place, this books aims to show that seniors also crave fun experiences alongside opportunities to make their own lives easier and more stress free-- and to illuminates how libraries can strike this balance by offering an enriching senior services roster.

Author : Phyllis Goodman
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1440872287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Go with Senior Services written by Phyllis Goodman and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite. While serving the senior population is a standard service in public libraries, it has traditionally focused on in-house programs and homebound services. On the Go with Senior Services is different. With this inspiring and practical guide, your library can rejuvenate its in-house services with new programs and also take them on the road—to retirement and assisted living communities, adult day care programs, and nursing homes and rehab centers. With such diversity in the senior population, this book describes strategies for designing senior programs that fit your community's needs. It offers a trove of templates for programs that range from crafts, word games, pop culture, pets, holidays, humor, mysteries, technology, and music. It offers tips and suggestions on how to interact with seniors, including those who may have a variety of physical and cognitive needs. There are also guidelines for working with individuals suffering from dementia. A robust list of further resources is provided. The growing population of seniors presents librarians with new challenges and opportunities, and this book is a valuable guide to navigating and embracing them.

Author : Paul Hogan
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071625437
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions written by Paul Hogan and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-12-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today BESTSELLER! "Informative. Complete. And practical. This book will guide family caregivers through the surprisingly complex world of senior care." —MEHMET OZ, M.D., New York Times bestselling coauthor of YOU: The Owner's Manual: The Complete All-in-One Care Guide Choosing the best care for your aging parents and other seniors in your life is not only complex, with multiple options available, it's also highly personal and often emotional. This essential resource—written by the founders of Home Instead Senior Care, the world's largest provider of nonmedical care for seniors—guides you through a comprehensive range of things to consider, step by step, so you can make better informed decisions and be confident that the senior in your life is receiving the best care possible. Checklists and diagnostics will help you: Decide if at-home care is the right choice for you and your loved ones Evaluate the pros and cons of retirement communities, adult care centers, nonmedical caregivers, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and hospice Determine the costs of senior care options and find helpful support networks "This is not just another book about caring for aging parents. It's a great reference you'll use again and again. Stages doesn't shy away from the hard questions. Rather, it shows you how to confront them."—SUZANNE MINTZ, President/CEO, National Family Caregivers Association "Recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, this salient volume compassionately addresses a full range of hard-to-discuss subjects."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY All of the authors' profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation. Paul and Lori Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care in 1994. Now with 850 offices in 15 countries, Home Instead is recognized as a global leader and authority on senior care. Visit them at www.stagesofseniorcare.com.

Author : Michelle Nevius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416593934
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Apple written by Michelle Nevius and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's fascinating past. This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking-tour guide, with 14 self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today.

Author : Bodie Thoene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785270164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only the River Runs Free written by Bodie Thoene and published by . This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish village feels suffocated by English rule, until a stranger appears on Christmas Eve, setting off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of the village's inhabitants.

Author : Noah Lenstra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440863156
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healthy Living at the Library written by Noah Lenstra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging resource is for librarians who want to begin a new program or incorporate healthy living into an existing one. From garden plots to cooking classes to StoryWalks to free yoga, more and more libraries are developing innovative programs and partnerships to encourage healthy living. Libraries increasingly provide health and wellness programs for all ages and abilities, and Healthy Living at the Library is intended for library staff of all types who want to offer programs and services that foster healthy living, particularly in the domains of food and physical activity. Author Noah Lenstra, who has extensive experience directing and advising on healthy living programs, first outlines steps librarians should take when starting programs, highlighting the critical role of community partnerships. The second section of the book offers detailed instructions for running different types of programs for different ages and abilities. A third section includes advice on keeping the momentum of a program going and assessing program impacts. Lenstra offers tips on how to overcome challenges or roadblocks that may arise. An appendix contains resources you can adapt to get these programs off the ground, including waivers of liability, memoranda of understanding, and examples of strategic plans and assessment tools.

Author : Benjamin W. Pearce
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887185
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senior Living Communities written by Benjamin W. Pearce and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demand for residential communities for seniors rises as the U.S. population continues to age. This growth means that new administrators and staff members often are learning by trial and error the complicated task of delivering high-quality and consistent services to elderly persons. While many new facilities have been successful, others have been plagued by a variety of administrative and financial difficulties. Senior Living Communities remains the definitive guide to managing these facilities. In this thoroughly updated and revised edition, Benjamin W. Pearce offers a wealth of sound advice and practical solutions. He discusses resident relations, operating methods, staffing ratios, department management, cost containment, sales and marketing strategies, techniques of financial analysis, budgeting, and human resources. New chapters address issues particular to dementia care and architecture, and the appendix contains a department-by-department audit of senior living operations. From the front lines to the boardroom, this book should be a part of every decision-making process for improving and maintaining assisted living, congregate, and continuing care retirement communities.

Author : Bob Nozik M. D.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412000831
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happy 4 Life written by Bob Nozik M. D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you will find in HAPPY 4 LIFE, are the instructoins for living a special kind of happiness that the author calls ideal happiness. This is not a book about happiness; this is a book that shows you how to get the happiness you've always wanted. Part I of HAPPY 4 LIFE reviews the research on happiness and reveals that there are two very different kinds of happiness: ordinary and ideal. In Part II, you'll discover that there are 12 simple principles that will lead you to happiness. They are explained and illustrated by means of real-life stories and excerises will help you master each of them. The next section, Detours Along the Happiness Highway, points out impediments that could slow your progress to happiness as well as showing you ways for getting past them. Finally, in Part IV, you will learn some very powerful ways for making personal change.

Author : Bruce Nemovitz
Publisher : Danforth Book Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9781887542456
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving in the Right Direction written by Bruce Nemovitz and published by Danforth Book Distribution. This book was released on 2007 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving in the Right Direction shares Bruce's experience and expertise on the many issues involved when seniors consider moving from their long-term home. Now seniors all across the country -- as well as the friends and family who care for them -- can turn to this simple, direct, and comprehensive guide as they make this important transition.