DVD/Videos
Senior Living University’s award-winning videos are ideal for in-service training and providing visual reinforcement of best practices in resident care and assistance. Videos are filmed exclusively in senior living communities with caregivers and residents. For many of these titles, an individual instructor guide with quiz can be purchased for a nominal charge.
Orientation Series
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Assisted Living: A New Approach to Care (10:56) -- This introduction to assisted living demonstrates the principles of choice, independence, and dignity using real-life interaction between caregivers and residents.
Dining Services: It’s Not Just Food (13:00) -- Staff members learn to properly set up and clean, safely deliver meals, and escort residents to and from the dining room. They learn the importance of maintaining resident dignity during dining and discover ways to assist wandering residents and those who have other physical or dietary limitations.
Aging Sensitivity (14:55) -- This insightful look at the physical & emotional realities of aging equips caregivers with a deeper understanding of the aging process and the losses experienced. It features interviews with seniors who talk about aging and how it has impacted their lives.
Orientation to Assisted Living Complete Set -- Set of three individual titles listed above comes with a copy of the video instructor's guide for a well-rounded training experience for only $225 or $100.
Orientation to Assited Video Instructor's Guide (single copy) -- $40
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Series
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Bathing (10:17) -- This video presents helpful information and ideas to help the caregiver assist residents with this most private and personal area of care.
Mouth Care, Grooming, Dressing (11:07) -- This video helps caregivers provide support for mouth care, grooming, and dressing in ways that are respectful and non-threatening.
Eating, Drinking, Toileting, Transferring (11:23) -- This video provides real-life examples of ways to assist residents at mealtimes, steps to take when toileting, and proper body mechanics and methods for transferring.
Activities of Daily Living Complete Set -- Set of the three titles listed above and a copy of the video instructor's guide provide a comprehensive training experience for only $225 or $100.
Activities of Daily Living Video Instructor's Guide (single copy) -- $40
Medical Awareness Series
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Vital Signs 1: Temperature, Pulse, Respiration (12:20) -- Vital signs, when taken properly, provide a window on a resident's health status. This video is a hands-on tutorial on how to observe, measure, report, and record a resident's changing condition. Incorporating the principles of assisted living, it reviews the various techniques used to measure temperature, pulse, and respiration.
Vital Signs 2: Blood Pressure and Weight (15:54) -- This video demonstrates the step-by-step process of measuring, reporting, and recording a resident's blood pressure and weight. It emphasizes techniques that support the assisted living principles of resident choice, independence, and dignity.
Vital Signs Complete Set -- Set of both Vital Signs titles with a video instructor's guide for only $165 or $85.
Vital Signs Video Instructor's Guide (single copy) -- $30
Alzheimer’s / Dementia Care Series
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Video 1: An Introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease (15:56) -- By meeting seniors living with this illness, myths about the disease are dispelled as caregivers learn the basics about the various stages of Alzheimer's.
Video 2: Communicating with Residents… (19:44) -- This video demonstrates how to communicate more effectively with those affected by the disease through unique training techniques.
Video 3: Wandering: Is It a Problem? (14:19) -- Watch as model caregivers explain this misunderstood behavior and display effective re-direction techniques.
Video 4: Resisting Care... (14:17) -- This videos is the perfect guide to safely and effectively responding to resident resistance with compassion and quality care.
Video 5: Agitation…It’s a Sign (14:42) -- This video takes a visual journey into understanding the causes of agitated behaviors. It teaches appropriate prevention and intervention.
Alzheimer's / Dementia Complete Set -- This set of five individual Alzheimer's DVDs comes with a copy of the video instructor's guide for a well-rounded training experience for only $395 or $195.
Alzheimer's / Dementia Series on One DVD -- Making training easier with all five of the above titles on one DVD, plus a copy of the video instructor's guide, for only $325.
Alzheimer's / Dementia Video Instructor's Guide -- $40
Risk Reduction Series
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Video 1: Aging Sensitivity offers insight into the physical and emotional realities of aging and provides caregivers with a deeper understanding of the aging process and the losses experienced by seniors. (run time 14:55)
Video 2: Observing and Reporting Changes in Condition provides a careful look at the aging process, increases medical awareness, and trains staff to look for health changes. (run time: 8:47) FREE VIDEO PREVIEW!
Video 3: Vital Signs Part 1: Temperature, Pulse, Respiration reviews the various techniques used to measure temperature, pulse and respiration. (run time: 12:20)
Video 4: Vital Signs Part 2: Blood Pressure and Weight shows the step-by-step process of measuring, reporting, and recording a resident's blood pressure and weight. (run 15:54)
Video 5: Reducing Resident Falls explains why falls happen, the importance of assessing resident risk for falls, and ways to prevent and reduce falls. (run time: 8:21) FREE VIDEO PREVIEW!
NEW! Reducing Resident Falls Video Instructor's Guide -- $40
Video 6: Introduction to Alzheimer's Disease presents caregivers with non-scripted, real-life interviews with assisted living residents and helps them learn about the stages of Alzheimer's disease and how to provide care with choice, independence, and dignity. (run time: 15:56)
Video 7: Wandering…Why and What Now prepares caregivers to manage wandering behaviors through insight into the behavior, knowing the residents, and then applying skills of re-directing the resident to meaningful activities. (run time: 16:56)
Video 8: Beyond Assisted Living…Is It Time to Move identifies the factors involved in making the decision to transfer a resident to a facility that provides a higher level of care. (run time: 18:02)
Risk Reduction Complete Set -- Set of eight titles listed above and a copy of the video instructor's guide provide a comprehensive training experience for $635.
Risk Reduction Video Instructor's Guide -- $40
Safety
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Back Safety (30:41) -- This video teaches us, through examples and scenarios, the risks that come with improper lifting or moving and how to avoid injury in the various situations we face on the job. FREE VIDEO PREVIEW!
Fire Safety (18:30) -- This video explains the common causes of fires and how they spread, providing us with a healthy respect for the dangers of fire and smoke. FREE VIDEO PREVIEW!
Infection Control (22:00) -- This important video helps teach your staff how to prevent the spread of illness by following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for standard and transmission-based precautions. The video also reviews best practices for protecting against exposure to blood-borne pathogens such as hepatitis, and human immunodeficiency virus, as well as screening for tuberculosis.
Infection Control Video Instructor's Guide -- $30
Medication Video Training
Includes FREE shipping. Choose your format: DVD ($75) or VHS ($35)
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Medication Management (14:02) -- This video demonstrates best practices for assisting residents with different types of medications, with emphasis on professional medication delivery that maximizes choice and dignity for the resident. The “rights” of medication administration are covered, including the right resident, right drug, right dose, right route, and right documentation. The video demonstrates best practices for observation, delivery, and documentation of medications with real-life examples.
Consumer Education/Marketing Videos
$35 each includes FREE shipping. VHS format only.
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Moving into Assisted Living...A Smooth Transition (15:00 approx) --This video offers helpful hints to families to ease the transition of their loved one as they move into their new home and adjust to his or her surroundings
Is It Time to Move? A Family Decision (15:00 approx) -- This video addresses the decision-making process a family experiences in choosing assisted living.
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