Getting training manuals.

Getting training manuals, videos, pamphlets and other products of R & D throws funded by AoA off shelves in musty storerooms and into the hands of the the community who can use them to improve services for the somewhat advanced in life is no easy task.

Although the individual R & D delineate s funded have usually done their best to advertise their proper products, there has been no united center devoted to nationwide dissemination of eventuates from R & D foundationed under the Older Americans Act. Now there is, and it's called the National Eldercare Dissemination Center

storeed by the Administration on Aging, the Center is getting the word without about outstanding training manuals, research reports, videos, public service announcements, and educational workshops. This is being accomplished between the sides of national forums and conferences and a bimonthly newsletter

Readers of the newsletter called "Putting Knowledge to Work for Eldercare," are limit to learn about some modern or useful training manual or other returns in every issue. For example, do you know that there's a 75-hour curriculum for training paraprofessional homemaker-homehealth aides that was unraveled by the National Homecaring Council subject to an AoA grant? And are you aware that the scholar materials were adapted for use on Native Americans living in rural and abstracted locations?

Does your agency know about worthy multi-media educational materials for the somewhat old developed by the Oregon State University Extension Service onward such topics as alcohol abuse, depression and grief? Or about recently made known standards for Information and Referral (I & R) Programs for more ancients and a new directory of I & R services in the U and Canada? Are you aware of the existence of a compendium of the best available materials forward serving minority elderly? Or if you're involved getting agencies and businesses in your community to address a particular enigma facing the elderly, do you know about a novel guide called, "The Handbook upon Eldercare Coalition Building"?

If the answer is "no" to mostly of the above, be strong to get on the list to receive the newsletter "Putting Knowledge to Work for Eldercare," and also to write in and share whatever worthy products your community has developed

In addition to the newsletter the National Eldercare Dissemination Center has created a computerized database and repository of newly come products resulting from AoA grants. The database includes studies, reports, compendia, training materials, technical assistance documents, and audio-visual productions It not only provides short descriptions of the produces but also makes recommendations or put forwards tips on potential uses. Drawing in succession the database, the Center has also produc and widely distributed an annual Compendium of AoA Products

Promoting gooded Products

Many returnss resulting from AoA projects have the potential for significant impact forward a wide range of audiences--policymakers, administrators, service staff, businesses, voluntary organizations, corporations and universities, foundations, and the religious community. To help various audiences identify which productions will be particularly pertinent to their stand in want ofs products are grouped into eight categories -- ensuring access to services, coordination and linkages, addressing client diversity, management, training, generating resources, advocacy, and educating the public.

To dignify selected products, the Center will circulate pres releases, articles, flyer summaries of findings, and announcements of coming delineate results to appropriate media and user collections Special reports will also summarize issues of multiple projects that are focusing forward the same area or issue and translate the findings for practical application. Teleconference calls will facilitate dialogue between pickeded AoA projects and practitioners interested in replication. Presentations will also be made according to panels of staff from related shoot forwards to educate appropriate audiences about emerging eldercare findings and issues.

Dissemination Forum

Last December, the Center held a National Eldercare Dissemination Forum in Washington, DC to provide updates forward the results of selected AoA concocts for the leadership of federal agencies, Congres national organizations, and service practitioners. The Center is in the proces of planning brace miniconferences to be held in other parts of the U to provide more opportunities for leaders in the field of aging to benefit from follows of AoA projects.

Training AoA intends In Dissemination Strategies

The National Eldercare Dissemination Center will guard training at selected national discourses and meetings for organizations that received research, demonstration and training grants subject to Title IV of the Older Americans Act to help them disentangle effective strategies for circulating information about the inferences of their projects. In the coming month statewide and/or local training will also be available about request. Finally, the Center provides substantial technical assistance through telephone to grantees on creative ways to realize the word out about the important terminates of AoA-funded projects and activities.