Excellent websites for activity departments:
http://www.activities.net/home.htm Activities Central
http://www.moviesforbusiness.com/oz02.asp This is the Wizard of Oz information
Web sites that
I found helpful are:
www.onlinewbc.org online women’s business
center
http://www.activityconnection.com/ - this site is now fee-based, but does have a lot of good information
www.pioneernetwork.net this site advocates for change in long-term care
www.livinglonger@agingresearch.org research articles
www.activityprofessional.homestead.com Activity professionals on-line
www.angelfire.com/in/shoestring2 Activities on a Shoestring
www.longtermcare.hypermat.net The Top 50 Long Term Care Websites for Providers
www.music-outreach.com music videos
www.muscles2function.com Reasonably priced exercise videos to purchase.
www.puzzlemaker.com word search and crossoword puzzles for all events
www.dhspecialservices.com lots of very good links
www.ncata.com Art Therapy
www.musica.uci.edu Music Therapy
Craft websites
These are websites that my friend Lillie selected for working with the ICF/MR population. Some are very appropriate for dementia programming as well. Lillie’s recommendation to finding good websites for crafts and education for ICF/MR is to use a search engine and use the following key words:
www.yahooligans.com arts and crafts
www.billybear4kids.com information on holidays and crafts. Works well with developmentally disabled adults.
Educational:
http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/BrowserAndOrder.htm articles and pamphlets available on Alzheimers
http://www.ec-online.net/Community/Activists/difficultbehaviors.htm article: Using Validation Therapy to Manage Difficult Behaviors
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/Web.html Referrals for aging websites. Excellent and expansive selection
Web-based Continuing Education sites:
http://www.care2learn.com This website provides links for continuing education for many health care professionals
http://www.prm.nau.edu/spre_web_courses_directory/ Web course directory for CTRS
www.activitiespro-ed.com NAAP/NCCAP MEPAP Part 1 and 2 Basic Education Course for Activity Professionals and Advanced Management Course for Activity Professionals.
Both are pre-approved by NCCAP.
www.thenaap.com Natl. Association for Activity Professionals
www.nccap.org NCCAP – the Certification arm of NAAP.
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