*New Respite publications now available

How to Start and Manage a Group Activities and Respite Program for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Families: A Guide for Community-Based Organizations
3rd Edition. The Brookdale Foundation, 1997. 74 pages, $6.00 per copy to cover shipping and production costs.
Covers the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of a community-based group respite program for cognitively impaired persons and their caregivers.

*How To Plan and Implement an Early Memory Loss Program,  
Kristin Einberger and Janelle Sellick, 125 pages, 2006
$6.00 per copy to cover shipping and production costs.
Outlines a social day program model that addresses the need for social and mental stimulation and support for people dealing with early memory loss.  This how-to-guide provides a practical step by step strategy to develop a successful program that emphasizes memory enhancement through cognitive stimulation, education and socialization. 

*Field of Themes: 100 Activities for Our Senior Friends,
Barbara Fister and Sylvia Valentine, 240 pages, 2006
$6.00 per copy to cover shipping and production costs.
Provides 100 theme-based suggestions for activities for your social model adult day program for people with dementia.  Each themed activity is based on a four-hour program and provides opportunities for organized and spontaneous interaction for socializing, exercising and craft design. 

Relatives Raising Children: A Guide to Finding Help and Hope
Marianne Takas, J.D. 166 pages, Third Edition 2005
$6.00 per copy to cover shipping and production costs.
This book is based upon what long-term relative caregivers (and family services professionals who work with them) have learned about raising relative children. It is designed to provide useful information, strategies, and ideas, and to help link you with others who can help.  Marianne Takas, has worked on behalf of children as an attorney, a youth worker, a parent and a foster parent.

Brookdale National Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP)
One-Page Program Descriptions 2005, Free. Temporarily unavailable.
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The Brookdale National Group Respite Program
13 pages, free.
An overview of the program including the Brookdale Model, Community Collaboration, Participant Profile, Partnerships and more.

The Brookdale Relatives as Parents Program
13 pages, free
An overview of the program established to help meet the needs of grandparents and other relatives who have taken on  the responsibility of parenting when the biological parents are unable to do so.