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Topic Snapshot: Aging/Elderly

Consumer Brochures

• Aging - Maintaining Lifestyles
  This brochure provides information on Aging and how AT can enhance function.
  
• Stay or Returning Home with AT
  This brochure provides information on how AT and home modifications can allow people with disabilities to reside in their home.
  
• Visitability - Home Design for Diverse Populations
  This brochure describes how design features of homes can make a living space more accessible.

  Consumer Brochures can be downloaded from the Grantees Only section of the website.

Training Materials

• Educating Older Adults and their Caregivers about Assistive Technology
  This Power Point and Tool Kit was developed by Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT), and designed to support Older Adults and their Caregivers in making good AT decisions.
  PPT Presentation (PPT)     Inventory Kit (PPT)
• Assistive Technology Kits For Aging and Disability Resource Centers
  This is tool kit developed by Wisconsin’s Assistive Technology Program (Wistech), is designed as a train-the-trainer program for professionals who are supporting Older Adults in making good AT decisions.
  AT Kit Presentation (PDF)     AT Kit List 2007 (PDF)     AT Kit List 2011 (PDF)     AT Kit List 2013 (PDF)
• Small changes BIG DIFFERENCES Presentation (2010) -- Available formats: rtf ppt
  This presentation describes a training curriculum that promotes awareness of low tech items.  See also Additional Resources.
• Practical Guide to Universal Home Design: Convenience, Ease, and Livability: Remodeling, Building, Buying a Home (2010) -- Available formats: pdf rtf
  Produced by the Iowa Program for Assistive Technology (IPAT), Center for Disabilities and Development, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.

Reports

• Effectiveness of Assistive Technology and Environmental Interventions in Maintaining Independence and Reducing Home Care Costs for the Frail Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2010) -- Available formats: pdf
  William C. Mann, OTR, PhD; Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, OTR, PhD; Linda Fraas, OTR, MA; Machiko Tomita, PhD; Carl V. Granger, MD. Archives of Family Medicine. May/June 1999 v8, p210-217.
• Prevention of falls in the elderly trial (PROFET): a randomized controlled trial (2010) -- Available formats: rtf
  Jacqueline Close, Margaret Ellis, Richard Hooper, Edward Glucksman, Stephen Jackson, Cameron Swift. The Lancet. Jan 9, 1999 v353 i9147 p93 (1).
• The Great Efficacy of Personal and Equipment Assistance in Reducing Disability (2010) -- Available formats: pdf
  Lois M. Verbrugge, PhD, MPH, Catherine Rennert, MD, MPH, and Jennifer H. Madans, PhD. American Journal of Public Health. March 1997, v87 no3 p384-392.

Last Updated April 2011