Slide 1: Assistive Technology Webinar Brought to you by Michigan’s Assistive Technology Program at MDRC. [Michigan Disability Rights Coalition Logo with Liberty and Access for All!] Slide 2: About the Webinar * Use the chat function on the right hand side. * Questions and comments are encouraged and expected! * The session is being recorded. * We will start recording now. Slide 3: Low Cost Tools for Independence: Recreation and Leisure Sarah C. Peura, M.A., CTRS Superior Alliance for Independent Living (SAIL) Aimee Sterk, MSW Michigan Disability Rights Coalition Slide 4: Welcome! Topics Covered in this webinar: * Benefits of AT for older adults and people with disabilities * Gateway AT for recreation and leisure * Additional Resources Slide 5: What is Assistive Technology (AT)? Assistive Technology or AT is any item, product, system, or equipment that improves life for people with disabilities. Most AT is low-tech. Slide 6: What are the benefits of AT? * Verbrugge Study (1997) American Journal of Public Health * AT is the most effective strategy for reducing and resolving limitations of disabilities * People that used more devices were more independent Slide 7: Accessing AT * Goals * Strengths * Weaknesses * Environment * Resources * Choice [Overhead highway sign with word Choice and arrows pointing left and right and "exit now"] Slide 8: Increasing access to AT * Increased acceptance/desire for AT * Build on success [A large blue key on a computer keyboard with the word Access] Slide 9: Typical Functional Changes in Aging * Vision * Hearing * Mobility * Fine Motor Skills Memory [Chart for a vision test with smaller characters on bottom and larger on top] Slide 10: Types of Recreational Activities * Social * Physical * Cognitive [older woman at a table working on a laptop computer] [Man leaning over a pot of flowers, looking up and smiling] [Older man and woman with standing and holding bicycles] [Park with concrete table and benches with chess board and men playing chess] Slide 11: Social Activity and Motor Decline in Older Adults* * People who report less frequent participation in social activities have a more rapid rate of motor decline in old age. * The effect of each 1-point decrease in social activity score at baseline was approximately equivalent to being 5 years older at baseline. * Motor decline per year was associated with a more than 40% increased risk of death and a 65% increased risk of incident Katz disability. * Buchman Study Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(12):1139-1146 An analysis from the Rush Memory and Aging Project Slide 12: Social Activities * Family events * Church * Bingo * Going to a restaurant, play, or community event [People at table with folding chairs eating in church yard] [People at tables playing bingo] [Group of people standing and visiting in front yard of a church] Slide 13: Types of AT for Social Activities * Large print Bingo cards and magnetic chip holder * Pockettalker or Sonic Earz * Large grip or grip-assist utensils [Large print bingo card] [Magnetic Pickup Wand and 108 Magnetic Chips] [Fork with rings on either side of handle] [Silver colored long box with ear buds and words Bell Howell] Slide 14: AT for Social * Hand-held illuminated magnifiers * Rollators * Digital recorders * Bag or cane caddy [Handheld magnifying glass with grey switch on handle] [Red rolling walker cart with storage and brake levers on handles] [Silver metal box with key ring attached - a recorder] [Disk with flower pattern on table with hook hanging over the table edge holding a purse strap] Slide 15: Physical Research* * Being overweight and physically inactive are recognized risk factors. * Being physically active lessened the development of disability, largely independent of BMI. * Significantly less disability in both the overweight active and normal-weight active participants compared with their inactive counterparts *Bruce, Fries and Hubert Study “Regular Vigorous Physical Activity and Disability Development in Healthy Overweight and Normal-Weight Seniors: A 13-Year Study”, Am J Public Health. 2008 July; 98(7): 1294–1299 Slide 16: Physical Activity vs. Exercise Both terms refer to the voluntary movements you do that burn calories. * Physical activities are activities that get your body moving such as gardening, walking the dog, raking leaves, and taking the stairs instead of the elevator. * Exercise is a form of physical activity that is specifically planned, structured, and repetitive such as weight training, tai chi, or an aerobics class. Excerpt from Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging. This guide is the centerpiece of Go4Life, NIA’s national campaign to help you fit exercise and physical activity into your daily life. To find out more about how Go4Life can help you be more active, visit their website at www.nia.nih.gov/Go4Life. Slide 17: Physical Activities * Bicycle * Gardening * Knitting * Wii/Gentle Exercise * Walking * Bowling * Fishing [Man with arm swung up and a Wii control in hand, other people watching.] Slide 18: Types of AT for Physical Activities * Fishing pole holder * Bowling ramp * Mini stepper exerciser * Thermoskin® arthritic gloves [White plastic tube with a fishing rod in it, attached to the red frame of a wheelchair] [U-shaped stand with two connected metal bars sloping down from one side (A bowling ball ramp)] [Object with two longer foot pedals attached in front to a bar with a mini digital step counter device on it] [Hand with black glove which doesn't cover the finger and thumb tips and strap on the wrist] Slide 19: AT for Physical * Clamp It hobby device * Crochet aid * Easy grip trowel * GPS in walking mode [A hand with a white plastic ring around it, ring has a loop on top. Yarn is threaded through the loop gong to a crochet hook and a strip of crocheted material.] [hand holding a piece of knitted material with yarn going to a small - shaped stand with a metal bar on the vertical side which holds the end of the yarn. The stand has suction cups on the bottom.] [Hand holding a green handle on a L-shaped spade which is partially in the ground] [Device with printing Holux, a white screen in middle with numbers and 4 buttons on the bottom of the front side. – GPS] Slide 20: Cognitive Study * Suggests maintenance of cognitive function has implications for independence and longevity over time. * A substantial proportion of older adults maintain cognitive function in their eighth and ninth decades of life. * A substantial proportion of elders maintain cognitive function in late-life. Demonstrated a lower risk of death and functional decline than those with minor cognitive decline. * The Effect of Maintaining Cognition on Risk of Disability and Death”*, Yaffe, Lindquist, Vittinghoff, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 May 1; 58(5); 889-894 Slide 21: Cognitive Activities * Cards/Board Games * Computer * Drawing * Crafts * Painting * Puzzles * Reading [Two men and a woman at a table with a board game in center] Slide 22: Types of AT for Cognitive Activities * Wrist heated mouse pad * Large print Crossword puzzles * Large print playing cards/Card holders [Mouse pad with a cord (heated mouse pad)] [Cover of spiral bound book with "Large Print crosswords" on it.] [a deck of cards with 3 cards face up - at 10 of hearts, and Ace of spades and a King of diamonds] [blue plastic card holder holding 7 cards] Slide 23: AT for Cognitive * Scrabble World Play Poker with Braille * Quick Link Pen * 3 Level book stand and copy holder * Silver Lead easy grip brushes [Front of box with "scrabble word play poker" and image of 3 playing cards] [Wide pen with a screen on it] [A photo in a mat held in a book stand] [Set of 4 brushes with wide handles green, blue, red and yellow.] Slide 24: Resources * Recreation Therapists * OTs, PTs, Rehab Engineers and other experts on AT * SAIL * Internet: – www.abledata.com – http://assistivetech.net – www.copower.org [Trailer with images of a reclining bike, a person on a bike and a person running up a hill. Sun rays in background on lower left, fall leaves on hillside. Word "SPAR"] Slide 25: [Cartoon of woman writing on a note pad] [Text bubble with "What am I going to do with that used device?"] [Text bubble "I sure do need a new device..."] [Cartoon of man sitting with notebook on his lap] [Open laptop computer with "AT xchange" on screen] [Cartoon image of the man and woman shaking hands] Slide 26: Michigan Assistive Technology Loan Fund * Low-interest loan program for people with disabilities, seniors, and their family members * Use your loan to buy AT * You may borrow up to $30,000, flexible loan terms * Make monthly loan payments back to the credit union * Visit www.michiganloanfunds.org or call 1.800.828.2714 [UCP United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan logo] [Logo for the ATLF] [logo Option 1 credit union] Slide 29: [Deep blue sky with clouds to right side in the shape of a question mark] Slide 28: Contact Information * Sarah C. Peura, M.A., CTRS, Superior Alliance for Independent Living sarahp@upsail.com (906) 228-5744 * Aimee Sterk, MSW, Michigan Disability Rights Coalition, aimee@prosynergy.org (616) 797-9769 Slide 29: Thank you! * We’ll let you know when the recording is posted. * Please fill out the on line survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/leisure&rec “The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.” - Irwin Edman [Alternative text] 1