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What is ASST?
The Aging Simulation Sensitivity Training (ASST) program is based on the model established by the highly successful GAIT (Geriatric Assessment Interdisciplinary Team). The ASST program is a workshop which utilizes props, individual and group activities, and discussions to promote understanding, empathy, and sensitivity to the sensory losses of the elderly.
Program Activities
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Hand-outs describing normal sensory changes that occur with aging.
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Interactive exercises that utilize props such as ear plugs, cotton tipped vinyl gloves and eye-glasses which distort vision. These toolssimulate changes in hearing, tactile abilities, and normal which impact senior's ability to perform activities of daily living.
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Group discussions that promote understanding, empathy, and sensitivity to the need for elder friendly responses when communicating with older people.
ASST training has proven to be effective in teaching participants to experience the effect of sensory losses that are common to the process of aging. It has been successful in helping people to identify their own personal attitudes toward the elderly.
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A Typical
ASST Project
For information regarding
upcoming ASST projects, contact:
Jean Baker, RN
Audrey V. Wahl, BS, MPS
Aging Simulation Sensitivity Training (ASST)
Project Coordinators
Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center
PO Box 795
Cambridge, Maryland 21613
Tel: 410-221-2600
FAX: 410-221-2605
ahecagingproject@yahoo.com
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