Aging and Disability Sensitivity
Corporate Training Programs

SAFE Aging offers practical, innovative, and memorable on-site aging and disability sensitivity training programs to support specific organizational goals and training objectives.  Our programs can be tailored in terms of structure, organization, facilitated dialogue, interactive activities, simulations, goals and objectives.

Sensitivity Training heightens awareness of hidden, but complex barriers that could have an influence on job performance, productivity, safety, employee retention, health, and quality customer service.  Simulated tasks used during sensitivity (diversity) training programs are never meant to portray what it means to actually be disabled or functionally limited.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

• Interactive
• Experiential
• Custom designed
• Led by experts

TRAINING GOALS:

1. Increase awareness of normal age related changes that may challenge daily life abilities including: physical, sensory, and mental changes.
    
2. Increase awareness of common health conditions that can cause limiting physical, mental, and sensory/perceptual changes.
    
3. Increase awareness of dis-abling factors, hazards, barriers, conditions, attitudes and challenges that can reduce participation, safety, or inclusion in daily life activities within your store, business, community, or corporate setting.
    
4. Enable workshop participants to identify and develop useful solutions or strategies

1. to support customer or staff inclusion, safety, and/or active participation in your business program, service, office, church, organization, etc.
2. build customer and/or staff loyalty and satisfaction

5. Maximize profits

TRAINING METHODS
Examples of training methods include but are not limited to:

• Brainstorming

• Group activities and discussion

• Individual activities

• Props

• Role-playing

• Scenarios

• Simulations

• Other equipment and methods, etc.

SIMULATION ACTIVITIES: Examples include but are not limited to:

Physical conditions (To demonstrate how these challenges can affect participation in activities)

1. Limited or loss of mobility

2. Limited or loss of coordination

3. Limited breathing

4. Limited physical endurance

5. Limited strength

6. Limited communication

Sensory conditions (To demonstrate how these challenges can affect participation in activities)

1. Blindness

2. Cataracts

3. Diabetes

4. Peripheral neuropathy

5. Retinal disorders

6. Macular degeneration

7. Low vision

8. Other vision impairments, etc.

Mental Conditions (To demonstrate how these challenges can affect participation in activities)

1. Loss of memory

2. Limited concentration

3. Depression

Health Conditions (To demonstrate how these challenges can affect participation in activities)

1. Arthritis

2. Asthma or other lung diseases

3. Balance disorders

4. Broken hip

5. Depression

6. Diabetes

7. Hand disorders

8. Heart disease

9. Joint stiffness

10. Multiple sclerosis

11. Paralysis

12. Quadriplegia

13. Shoulder disorders

14. Stroke

15. Walking difficulties

16. Wrist disorders, etc.

Examples of Simulations:

1. Amputation Mobility (w/ w/c and reachers)

2. Arthritis Changes

3. Blindness: Walk and Write

4. Blind: Finding Features

5. Broken Hip: Mobility

6. Cell Phone Use: Visual Impairment

7. Central Scotoma and Arthritis

8. Communication and PPE

9. Diabetic Retinopathy Read/Write

10. Hand Loss

11. Hearing Impairment w/w/o Vision

12. Homonymous Hemianopsia

13. Homonymous Hemianopsia 20/200 Walk/Write

14. Knee Stiffness

15. Legal Blindness Diabetic Retinopathy - Walk with Aid

16. Lip Reading: Communication

17. Macular Degeneration: Daily Life

18. Micro Break

19. MS with Foot Drag

20. MS with Vision Loss

21. Paraplegia (W/C transfer)

22. Parkinson's: Manual Handling

23. Respiratory Insufficiency

24. Stress Management

25. Tunnel Vision: Daily Life

26. Visual Challenges: Daily Life

27. Visual Impairments: Finding Features

28. Using Walking Aids

CUSTOM PROGRAMS AVAILABLE for:

1. Adult living facilities

2. Automobile industry

3. Banking

4. Builders

5. Designers

6. Engineers

7. Entertainment venues

8. Health care settings

9. Hospitals

10. Hotels

11. Insurance companies

12. Law firms

13. Nursing homes

14. Restaurants

15. Retail chains such as

• a. Drug chains

• b. Supermarket chains

• c. Home sale chains, etc.

16. Service organizations

17. Travel industry

18. Telemarketing firms

19. Others - contact us at info@safeaging.com

For more detailed information about sensitivity training, please call:

1-866-SAFE AGE or info@SAFEaging.com