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This Caring Home

This Caring Home
Weill Cornell Medical College
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Product ID: 20783

Abstract: 
An animated web-based educational tool providing tips to enhance home safety for persons with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. Highlights include a virtual home, product guides, videos and animations.

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ThisCaringHome.org is an award-winning website that can help caregivers learn new strategies that enhance the safety and well-being of their loved ones. A unique and beneficial part of this website is its Home Safety Section that allows caregivers to explore research-based solutions to home safety and daily care issues by a simple mouse click over a room. Learn about best practices and simple everyday solutions including:
  • 7 Steps to Better Bathing
  • Better Mealtimes
  • Cooking Safety
  • Smart Home Technologies
  • Activities to Reduce Agitation
Prepared by experts at Weill Cornell Medical College, this website features videos, animations, and photographs, as well as reviews of home furnishings, smart technologies, and homecare products. 
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Winner of the 2010 National Alzheimer's Caregiver Award, awarded by the National Alliance of Caregivers and MetLife Foundation
Date posted: 
Wed, 10/20/2010
Date last updated: 
Thu, 09/30/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Learning resource types: 
Other Learning Resource Type: Web Resource

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Contact person/corresponding author: 
Rosemary Bakker ([email protected])
Authors: 
Rosemary Bakker
NLM Citation:
Bakker, R. This Caring Home. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2010 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20783
APA Citation:
Bakker, R. (2010). This Caring Home. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved September 16, 2011 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20783