Diversional Therapist - DTA NSW Level 1 Member (member #236)
Clinical Pastoral Education (Chaplaincy, specialising in Aged Care, Mental Health and Adult Rehabilitation)
Direct email: jfreeman@futureagecare.com
Ph 61 02 9877 5208
Fax 61 02 8580 4821
or email: info@futureagecare.com
Mail: FutureAge Care PO Box 3446
Putney NSW 2112 Australia
ABN 73 254 573 622
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Most popular purchases at present are: Sundown TV DVD 3 pack, Ambient Relaxation DVD, Healing Sound Bath CD, Etude Dance Pack, Waters Edge Sesnory CD.
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New products:
Sensory Workbook – spiral bound notation book, documenting, help sheets and templates
A 60 page documenting workbook that supports your multisensory enrichment programs and therapies with clients and residents. Sensory related programs are essential for many clients who live in long term nursing care and who have high care support needs.
This workbook supports you during your programs and activities, allowing you to fill out the pages and areas during your program, documenting your recipient’s responses to sensory stimuli. The Sensory Workbook also contains evaluation pages that you can complete, with prompting questions for consideration on hygiene, future programming, what your client responded well to/didn’t respond well to etc. Reminder notes of the symptoms of sensory deprivation and risk factors, and sensory overload and what to do, information on Process Work Techniques for working with a recipient with very low level responses/non-responsive.
Take it with you or have it stationed in your sensory room. Spiral bound to lay flat, with easy reference guide to locate the templates that you need quickly. Prominently lined paper and clear words, suitable for using in lower light settings/sensory rooms etc. Created and used by FutureAge Care in our weekly sensory programs with adult clients and residents with mid to later stage dementia.
Sensory Workbook: $19.95
Sensory Work Station – mobile resource pack for multisensory enrichment activities and programming. 7 items, great value and a comprehensive resource package
Contents:
Sensory Workbook – as seen above
DVD: Duck Ponds & Swan Lake – ambient DVD collection, short films, 6 tracks of various ponds, lakes, birds, flowers, relaxing piano music and selections with natural sounds. Very captivating and an audio and visual sensory feast for your residents and clients
Audio CD library – 10 themed soundtracks for sensory rooms, backdrop for multisensory activities and complimentary therapies
Laminated A4 door sign – “Quiet Please! Sensory Activity in Progress”
Laminated A4 quick reference guides: sensory deprivation symptoms, sensory overload, sensory defensiveness
Additional lined page notebook – quick documenting, notes etc if you wish to use and then transfer into your Sensory Workbook later
Sturdy box file for storage and transportation. Suitable for activity coordinators, diversional therapists, complimentary therapists and pastoral carers working in the area of multisensory enrichment $115.00
Mens’ Activities Kit – (dementia resources kit):
2 DVDs, 1 book, 1 laminated activities card, 1 listening activities CD (music and sounds: tracks include Highland Adventure, Nautical Journey, Spirit of the Anzac plus instructions for using), sturdy box file for safe storage
• Dementia Reader: The Beekeeper who climbed a mountain by Lauretta Kaldor
• In the Garden – reminiscing and viewing activities DVD
• Gone Fishing – reminiscing and viewing activities DVD
• CD – listening activities – music and sounds that invite a story, familiar sounds, interesting sounds, male based themes
• Laminated A4 activity card – suggestions for activities with men
• Durable case file for easy storage
$92.95 (rrp $102.95) saving of $10
Writing Activities Workstation – Writing resources and activity projects for the frail aged, clients with dementia and created for residents receiving high care support
Contents:
• Comprehensive folder of writing projects: over 30 A4 templates of themes and activities. Topics include: “I feel..I think..I am” “About Me”, Journals, Lists, Jot & Doodle, Words of wisdom, lined pages, themes and male/female related, weather journal, invites, diary day
• 3 spiral bound writing pads, different sizes,
• 1 exercise music book – lined paper and staved paper
• 1 exercise book – graph paper
• Stationary pack: pencils, rubber pencil grips for ease, plastic ruler, set squares, pencil sharpener
• Suggestions, written instructions and real examples to read (inc dementia residents’ own writings)
• Folder with plastic sleeves to store clients’ work
• Laminated A4 door sign: “Quiet Please! Activity in progress
• 1 printed copy of each A4 writing template - photocopy as many as required
• 1 CD Rom: all writing A4 templates are stored on CD Rom for your convenience as well
Designed for the high care environment, you will be amazed at what a resident will write, scribble, jot and sketch if given a pencil and the support that they need! Words, phrases, their old address, signing their name, a note to a loved one, numbers, little sketches..the expressions, communications and results we have come across are many, varied and very exciting.
Tip: if unsure about this type of resource and activity, simply create a group program yourself first, with lined paper, letter notepaper, lists, pencils etc from your group and see what happens. This is exactly how we stumbled on the potentials and subsequent creation of the Writing Activities Workstation!
Writing Activities Workstation Kit: $112.95 - this resource can be used in many ways and over and over!
Music Elements CD and resource kit
Music Elements – CD of stimulating and interesting music to play along to, creative music making ideas for all ages
• Audio CD: Irish, Oriental, European, Scottish, instrumental music to enjoy and play along to, move to, listen to; rich and diverse, blends of relaxing, punchy, unusual; music to ignite the senses and the imagination
• Laminated A4 activity cards: suggestions for activities and the “how to” in running informal and relaxed music making activities, relaxation activities, creative-based programs etc
• Laminated A4 door sign: “Quiet Please! Music in progress
• Plastic storage sleeve to keep resources handy and secure
Music Elements CD and resource kit $39.95
Listen to 4 samples of tracks: Temple of the Manes, Highlander, Finding Movement, prelude in C
Etude Dance© Resource Pack
Contents: Etude Dance CD, 25-page instruction manual, Laminated A4 dance sign, documenting journal, Box File
Etude Dance© is a seated creative dance and gentle movement program for the frail elderly and residents with dementia. It can also be used with adult clients with a multiple disability diagnosis and impaired physical movement. Suitable for high care nursing facilities and for residents seated in chairs, gel chairs, wheelchairs or beds. Inclusive for advanced dementia, stroke, frailty.
Etude Dance© is created by Jennifer Freeman, FutureAge Care and was presented at the 30th Annual Convention of The Diversional Therapy Association of Australia National Council in May 2008. Etude was borne out of the idea to create an exercise program that could suit participants with dementia and limited physical movement, as well as utilise the need for sensory stimulation and creativity outlets among those in residential long-term care.
Your Etude CD contains 13 tracks of interesting music styles: celtic, salsa, linedancing, tango, relaxing piano, ballet, Tunisian, African, Irish and 1 oriental piece. 
Your CD is accompanied by a 25 page manual outlining Etude - with dance choreography suggestions, pre-planning and activity ideas for each group dance theme. A sturdy box file, documenting journal and laminated Etude Dance door sign make this a fantastically priced and valuable resource at just $79.95
Everything you need to set up a seated dance program with your clients. Etude is also facilitated by pastoral care staff as a spiritual activity program. Your pack comes with instructions on pre-planning and setting up Etude at your facility, a checklist and dance movement quick reference guide. With helpful prompts within the manual on safety, hygiene, discussion topics, observations and ideas, Etude will become tailored to your unique participants' interests and their health care needs.
Click on play below to hear samples of 3 tracks from the Etude CD...
Sensory Activities Kit - Healthy Sights, Sounds & Touch
We've put together a kit for therapists and activity staff to use, which is based around some of the items that we commonly use within our multisensory enrichment programs. Suitable for adults with high care needs, clients with dementia and those with lower level responses, this kit enhances engagement with your client in the areas of: Touch, Visual and Audio stimulations.
With a sturdy box file, 5 laminated A4 pages of activities and therapeutic suggestions including information on Sensory Deprivation, your Healthy Sights, Sounds & Touch Sensory Kit also includes the following:
• Flowers of Provence Ambient DVD - The DVD has 3 relaxing films: Lavender, Poppies and Sunflowers, set to the calming and inspiring piano music of Simon Daum.
The DVD has 4 further tracks which contain natural ambient sounds: Three Natural Decoration tracks show a lavender landscape, a field of lavender, and a bright field of sunflowers, and a track of Soothing Scenes offers a flowery mix of slowly changing shots, fields and countryside.
• Waters Edge CD - 8 listening tracks, clients will enjoy the audio delights of fresh water lapping gently, the gaggle of sea birds, segments of music, and sound effects such as splash, sailing yacht, rowing boat, waves, wind and gentle breeze. Familiar sounds and effects to enhance imagination, memories and time away from the sterile, medical environment with the richness of nature and the natural world.
• Gardens & Parks of the World - ambient sensory CD for therapeutic use, wellbeing and relaxation. This 40 minute soundtrack offers a variety of ambient sounds from public parks, ponds, lakes and gardens across the world. This CD is suitable for clients with dementia, for the visually impaired, for palliative care and multisensory programs. It also provides a nice backdrop for those who are bed-confined and have been in long-term nursing care.
• Joya™ Timber Massage Pen - This pen is a unique tool that engages in therapeutic touch experiences between you and your client. The massager pen can provide gentle and soothing relief from aches and pains with the freely rotating gemstone that is set into the top of the pen. The freely rotating crystal can be rolled with the pen onto direct skin or on top of clothing: the second option of which is ideal for those with very fragile skin. It comes with an instruction booklet and tote bag for safe keeping.
• Sensory Puff - large, 15cm in diameter. Very fluffy and a great sensory item for gentle brushing of the arms, face etc. We use this in palliative care and with residents with dementia. Comes with instructions for uses.
Sensory Activities Kit $169.95 (Kit valued at $188.95, your saving of just under $20). All items except the Sensory Puff and DVD can also be purchased separately on this page, or viewed for more information.
DVDs:
Ambient Jukebox DVD (vol 2) - 9 different tracks to view, 10 minutes each and total viewing time of 90 minutes, includes optional natural sounds and music to accompany these selections: Colourful Coral, woodland waterfall & river, crackling fireplace, discus fish, burning candle, falling snow, tropical tank, sunset ocean and forest creek.
Choose a track to suit your mood.
All tracks use natural sounds to add to the experience and this DVD has the option to select music to accompany your choices. 90 minutes playing time, this DVD enhances living environment, lifestyle programs such as creative arts, relaxation and church services inc carols. It is a positive alternative to noisy tv with endless commercials. $32.95 - This DVD comes with a laminated A4 card for many suggestions and ideas for uses, plus some documentation tips on what to include in resident's progress notes. (800 words on A4 card).
This is our most popular DVD sold and if you have a limited budget, this DVD is the best value and provides multiple uses for your programs.
Feedback: Click on the pdf below to read some customer feedback and examples of how we and other diversional therapists have utilised this DVD resource.
Ambient Jukebox Uses - this 1 page document lists a few examples of how the DVD is currently being used:
Ambient Relaxation DVD - 9 tracks with natural sounds or music to create a relaxing atmosphere at your home. Relax with three different tracks: Water Flowers, Seahorses and Flamingos, set to the calming piano music of Simon Daum. Feel your tension slide away as you enjoy the slowly changing images of flowers and water, floating seahorses and pink flamingos against a waterfall. At FutureAge Care we use our Ambient DVDs also as a backdrop to many activities. They help to enhance the feeling of a safe, non-threatening environment as they relax people and provide them with gentle distraction and some enjoyment as we bring other residents to the room. The DVDs can help agitated residents and those prone to wandering to sit still while we prepare to start our programs. The images and colours can help to stimulate the mind ready for activity and the vibrant colours (such as from the Flowers of Provence below) energise the mind and enhance imagination and creativity for art, seated dance and conversation.
Other suggestions: Your clients can start their day watching the sun rise over the hills at a beautiful lagoon, then move to the beach and listen to the gentle waves of a clear sea as they splash over the smooth sand. End the day as the sun sets once more and the sparkling water laps softly, using Sunset Lake as a visual cue for end-of-day reminders for your residents.
Three more tracks offer natural decoration and a freshwater aquarium. Enjoy the sounds of nature as a river tumbles along and an unusual waterfall drops over the hillside against a clear, blue sky, or turn your TV into an aquarium with shimmering fish darting through the plant life. Each track is approximately 10 minutes long. Choose a track and it will play continuously or use the Play All function to play each in turn. $32.95 includes laminated suggestions for a variety of uses.
Butterflies and Flowers DVD
Enjoy both tropical and temperate butterflies and flowers on 5 great tracks. Films are complemented by relaxing music and two tracks of longer, slowly-changing images are accompanied by natural sounds.
Different tracks have different types of flowers and include wonderful passion flowers, romantic roses, bright yellow sunflowers, and daisies in a natural meadow setting.
Every butterfly, caterpillar, dragonfly, bee and blossom was filmed with HD cameras for stunning picture quality and amazing detail. 80 minutes total duration.
Enjoy the fascinating behaviour of the butterflies as they dance around the blossoms and drink from the flowers’ sweet nectar. Watch how a bee collects pollen from the fragile beauty of a rare passion flower and marvel at the different species of colourful flowers including romantic roses, bright yellow sunflowers, and daisies in a natural meadow setting. This DVD is a great resource to promote relaxation and wellbeing, sensory stimulation, and as a therapeutic aid to compliment Colour Therapy or Palliative Care programs. - A vibrant feast of colour and natural beauty to tantalise the senses and your imagination! $32.95
DVD Sample - Natural Decoration
Film & Relaxing Music
Flowers of Provence DVD
Flowers of Provence, from cinematographer Tony Helsloot, was filmed amongst the wonderfully aromatic lavender fields of Provence and in the surrounding regions of South-West France.
The DVD has 3 relaxing films: Lavender, Poppies and Sunflowers, set to the calming and inspiring piano music of Simon Daum.
Four further tracks contain natural ambient sounds: Three Natural Decoration tracks show a lavender landscape, a field of lavender, and a bright field of sunflowers, and a track of Soothing Scenes offers a flowery mix of slowly changing shots, fields and countryside.
Choose a track and it will play continuously or use the Play All function to play each in turn. This is a great resource for your Sensory Room and related programs: use with lavender and floral aromas for an audio, visual and fragrant sensation with your clients. Other uses can include a backdrop to Memorial Services and War Commemoration Days (Poppies Film for Remembrance Sunday for eg) a backdrop to Art programs to assist with cognitive stimulation and imagination, Flower Arranging, prelude to gardening, sensory enrichment and this DVD is a great asset to Colour Therapy.
The lead up to an activity can have its challenges; with seated residents standing up again and wandering or becoming agitated if things don't start before their concentration starts to wane. At FutureAge Care we use these Ambient DVDs to provide a focus and distraction before the activity program starts, to help keep everyone entertained until every resident has arrived and we can start. Those watching the DVD will start to point out images of interest or familiar subjects and it helps to relax them and settle any nerves or anxiety that they may have.
$32.95 - This resources comes with an A4 laminated card of suggestions for uses.
Yoga for the Mature Years DVD - Manasa Yoga for the Mature Years is a specifically designed program of gentle yoga exercise and deep breathing for the aged. Suitable for residents of any ability including dementia, all postures are performed from a sitting position.
With easy to follow, detailed demonstration and guidance, this resource can be used in a group or individual setting and is ideal to incorporate into your diversional therapy programs. This is an inspiring yoga exercise resource that aims to improve the quality of life for the aged, and to honour and acknowledge all that they are able to do and fully participate in. Some of the Benefits of the Yoga based exercise can be seen in: increasing circulation through the body; strengthening joints, ligaments, tendons and toning the muscles; improving balance, coordination and posture; stimulating the immune system through the full and natural breathing; bringing a suppleness and strength to the spine and supporting muscles; massaging the internal organs; creating harmony and balance in the mind and increasing energy and vitality.
If you don't have Quicktime, click on the Q logo to download Quicktime and watch this DVD preview.
The Yoga for the Mature Years DVD is very easy to follow, with three mature age students participating in their 60s and 70s. This resource is being used by Aged Care and Dementia associations, Arthritis/Osteoporosis Associations and in the field of Diversional Therapy. It is great value at $45.00
Koi Fish Pond Latest DVD for Therapeutic Viewing and Activities
Imagine sitting with your clients by the edge of a pond in a Japanese-style garden watching graceful fish moving slowly through the water... This DVD features award-winning Koi fish with stunning colours, slow moving imagery and beautiful patterns.
Enjoy the restful experience of Koi Fish Ponds with a relaxing film, plus 2 tracks of longer, slowly changing images and six more great Koi pond scene selections for natural decoration and therapeutic relaxation in your homes and communal areas.
Feedback: "We have been using the Koi DVD in our dementia wings and it is having a very good effect on our residents." - Coordinator, Tinonee Gardens Multicultural Village NSW
We use this DVD regularly in several ways: 1) as part of a Japanese-themed relaxation program with individual clients, utilizing coloured rose lights and Japanese parasols for an ambient-sensory stimulation2) With live music sampling, creating oriental sounds with Rainstick, Thumb Piano, small bells, finger cymbals with clients. The DVD is used as an enhancing backdrop and accompaniment to provide oriental-style music and suggested themes for creativity.
3)For relaxing viewing and as natural room decoration, stimulating a fresh and healthy environment, taking the viewers away from a sterile, medical environment.
Audio Sample
All tracks can be played with music or natural water and pond sounds and tracks will repeat play so that your viewers are not left watching a blank screen at the end (great for those clients with dementia). - Great value, this DVD is an exceptional resource for men, cultural themes, Colour and keeping your environment fresh and healthy!
$29.95
In the Garden DVD
Fun, Therapeutic & Reminiscent DVD resource. Topics include:
Botanical Gardens, trees & flower beds
Flowers close-up. Birds and Ducks
Gardening and building a garden rock wall
Feeding Chooks
Children playing in the garden
Classical and familiar music. Main Movie is 28 Mins, Relaxing.
Busy in the Garden + 10Mins Additional activities - mowing lawn, hanging out washing BBQ,
Plus a selection of listed subjects & more - Fun & reminiscent
Flowers in the Garden - 10 Mins Relaxing
Visitors to My Garden - A Slide Show
A Garden Crossword Puzzle and 9 garden picture clues
5 Activies on one DVD! At FutureAge Care we have used this DVD with great success with group viewing and 1:1 with a client on a portable DVD player. Our residents with dementia were calling out the names of the flowers that they recognised and we had such fun, with one lady calling the dog a "blue setter". It was interesting and very positive to observe just how many residents reconised some of the music and commented on activities such as the wall being built, planting bulbs and how the toddler was trying to walk on the grass.
The crossword at the end was a great finish and provided another cognitive group activity that framed the garden topics and themes. Minds were able to recall the information already watched and many enjoyed enhanced memory through recall with the crossword photograph clues. This resource can be used over and over and our residents watched it all morning and then asked for it to be kept playing during the lunch meals.
$29.95
Please note, speed of image transitions will be slower in the DVD and the watermark will not appear. Film has sharper clarity as this is a web sample.
Moments in Lavender DVD - A must-have resource for engaging viewing and interest, reminiscing, themed activities and suitable for those with dementia and the aged care setting. Topics include:
Sewing by hand and with a treadle sewing machine
Toddler dancing and playing with balloons and a child having hair tied in rags
A short Word changing game
Lavender gardens and a man gardening & planting lavender
Bees and a grasshopper plus the historic flowering Jacaranda trees in New Farm Park Qld
Classical and familiar music - Main Movie is 28 Minutes and Short Movie is 10 Mins
Introduction by Producer Judi Parkinson
May be used with an approved Aromatherapy program $29.95
Please note, speed of image transitions will be slower in the DVD and the watermark will not appear.
Oranges and Lemons DVD - The 3rd DVD in the series from Sharetime Pictures
Engaging & Reminiscent, this colourful DVD contains a feast of visual sights, activities and sounds:
Oranges and Lemons
Cooking, Chopping Fruit
Washing bottles
Citrus Fruit
Botanical Gardens Trees
Colour themes
Flowers close-up
Children drinking Orange Juice
5 Activities on one DVD with Optional Chapter stops/advance control for carers on the Crozzle activity.
Classical and Familiar Music. Great value at $29.95
Sample to view of the DVD (lower resolution on internet)
Gone Fishing DVD -the 4th in the series by Sharetime Pictures.
Main movie Gone Fishing: 28 mins, relaxing
A Fishy Tale 10Mins (A fun movie)
Beach Fishing 10Mins (relaxing)
Along the Seashore 10mins (very relaxing)
The Gone Fishing Crozzle
Contents include: Two men fishing on a sunny day
Knotting a Sinker to Line
Baiting a fishing hook
Beach scenery
Casting & Waiting
Fishing from a beach and a boat
Some great catches. Filmed on beautiful South Stradbroke Island and the Gold Coast Broadwater in Queensland
$29.95
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DVD Packs:
One of our most popular resources:Series 1 - Colours and Calm
A new concept in aged care, Sundown TV is our promotion of quality viewing DVD packs for late afternoon, Sundowning management and intervention. Sundowning is the experience of stress, anxiety and fearful thoughts that a person with dementia can sometimes live through as the natural daylight begins to dim in the afternoon. This, along with the cease of activities with staff and the wind down towards the evening meal/bed time can trigger worry for those who no longer remember where they live, or who believe that they need to find their way home to family or a remembered home address from their past.
Sundowning of more than one resident in the afternoon can complicate an already anxious climate, as several residents and small groups begin to wander, call out or busy themselves searching for a phone, transport, handbag and answers from those around them concerning a "bed for the night", taxi/bus or an evening meal. Sundowning is especially prevalent in dementia specific residential homes and secure units.
Management of a calm and reassuring environment is essential in the afternoon and a common contribution to the chaos and trauma of a Sundowner's experience can be environmental noise, hectic movement and mainstream television playing loud, repetitive adverts, fast-paced children's programs and sudden bursts of newsbreaks. The noise and busyness can lead to sensory overload in a person with dementia, agitation or aggressive outburst (catastrophic event). It can also lead to attempts to abscond and therefore poses a greater risk of falls.
The Sundown TV range provides care staff with DVD resources that focus on a selection of short films, relaxing music, ambient sounds, nature and colour, to provide distraction and re-focus onto a healthy viewing and listening activity. Our first series, described as Colours & Calm consists of the Ambient Relaxation DVD: 9 varied viewing tracks with relaxing music and ambient sound options; the Butterflies & Flowers DVD: short, colourful films, study of insects and vibrant flowers, plus additional tracks of slowly changing images with sounds of nature. The 3rd DVD: Moments in Lavender is an engaging viewing activity with 2 films that promote reminiscing, implicit memory, colour focus and themes and there is also a short word changing activity.
$89.95 ($5.90 discount on rrp) this DVD pack comes with laminated A4 cards for additional suggestions, plus a sturdy plastic folder to keep your resources safe and easily accessible for those times of need. These DVDs can also be used for viewing anytime and as healthy backdrops for a positive room enhancement and wellbeing environment. View samples from each individual DVD towards the top of this webpage.
CDs - Exercise & Relaxation/Special Therapeutic:
Healing Sound Bath Audio CD - Healing Sound Bath with Tuning Forks F, C and G
The Healing Sound Bath is a calming, soothing and relaxing experience, which can help the listener to feel rested, rejuvenated and cleansed in mind, body
and spirit.
Allow tension to be washed away and mental chatter to soften as gentle vocal tones, guitar, wind chimes and flute melodies weave together with the sound of tuning forks. Let your heart be light and your mind be free from worry as you relax and enjoy this healing sound bath.
Sound healing works through the principle of resonance. As
the sound vibrations 'resonate' within you they may help to
release feelings and emotions during and/or after the
sound bath - know that this is part of a healing process and
that it will pass. The CD comes with easy to follow guidelines
to ensure the listener’s comfort and safety.
Emma Burke is a registered Sound Therapy Practitioner and together with her we have
created this Healing Sound Bath CD. We use this professional and holistic resource with a selection of clients with a multiple disability diagnosis including Traumatic Brain Injury and with clients living with dementia. The Healing Sound Bath can be an effective tool for pain management, relaxation programs and to help alleviate depression. We are using this CD with 2 clients who have experienced sensory deprivation and it is an effective tool to help rebuild and strengthen the brain's ability to cope with and enjoy increased audio sensory input once more. $32:00
Sound preview 1.8 mb
Aqua Swimming & Beach Fitness Exercise CD- Aqua Swimming Club & Sunshine Beach is a unique audio exercise CD created for the high nursing care setting, for clients with dementia. The 1st two tracks contain 10 minutes of clear, even paced spoken seated gentle exercise designed for the residential aged care environment. Aqua Swim contains the pleasant background sounds of the swimming pool: the splash, the lap of water, the sound of paddling and the echo of the pool. Sunshine Beach contains the background gentle lull of waves and the splash as we enjoy spoken seated exercise in shallow water
Bonus tracks: Aqua Swim Acoustic and Sunshine Beach Acoustic - to create your own exercise programs. This CD is ideal for people who love or have loved swimming, water and the beach. A great Australian pastime.
This resource comes with A4 laminated cards for instructions and exercise movement suggestions. $26.00
Aqua Swimming Club Audio Sample
Anahata Yoga CD - Relaxation/Meditation
Anahata is guided meditation and music to soothe and refresh the mind and body. Track 1: The Infinite Breath is 19 minutes 30 in duration and is a beautiful guided meditation, accompanied by harmonizing music that touches the heart, bringing tranquility and stillness. Track 2: The Beholder’s Heart is 32 minutes 40 and is a melody of peaceful, joyous music that weaves through the consciousness creating a deep sense of calm and inner peace. This CD includes original music from the DVD Yoga for the Mature Years.
Besides using this CD for relaxation, meditation with both ourselves and our clients, we are also using this resource as a relaxation and pain management program with a younger client with a multiple disability diagnosis. More recently, we have been using it to provide background music for our Sensory Room programs, especially when utilizing the coloured light equipment, fibre optic curtain and rotating lights. Our next project is to use track 2 of the CD with a "White" Colour Therapy program idea in the Sensory Room for adult female clients. We will keep you updated.
Anahata is a valuable resource for your exercise, spirituality and wellbeing programs and is only $26.00
Listen to a sample from the Anahata CD
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CDs - Sensory/Ambient:
Gardens & Parks Of The World - Ambient Sensory CD
Gardens & Parks Of The World is an ambient sensory CD
for therapeutic use, wellbeing and relaxation. This 40 minute
soundtrack offers a variety of ambient sounds from public parks,
ponds, lakes and gardens across the world. This CD is suitable for clients with dementia, for the visually impaired, for palliative care and multi-sensory programs.
From feeding the ducks to chattering parrots, to summer
sounds and rowing on the lake, listeners will be delighted
and tantalised with a feast of relaxing environments across
the world.
Locations include London’s Finsbury Park, Vanier Park
Vancouver, Eastern Europe, Australia and Southern England.
Sounds include fountains, Cuckoos, horses walking across a
wooden bridge, Feng Shui Gardens, Kookaburras, the ice
cream man, leafy parks and a European village morning. $26.00
Listen to 3 short samples from the CD: Indian Woodpecker, Horses crossing park bridge and Feng Shui Garden
Waters Egde CD is a unique and innovative concept from FutureAge Care. This innovative CD contains music and ambient sound from a selection called “Waters Edge”. Listeners will enjoy the audio delights of fresh water lapping gently, the gaggle of sea birds, segments of music, and sound effects such as splash, sailing yacht, rowing boat, waves, wind and gentle breeze. Track titles are: Sails At Dawn, Fishing By The Creek, Ship On The High Seas, Waters Edge, Secret Gorge By Night, The Celestial Sea and Ocean Backdrop, plus a bonus track called Ocean Sleep - 10 minutes of soft ocean
waves and lapping water to help promote sleep to the listener.
Especially created for those that are no longer able to experience the outdoors, day trips, or moments with nature, this feast of gentle effects overlapping in short portions with music tells stories and enhances imagination and memories. This is a valuable resource for men, the sensory room and to play as an alternative to noisy TV/radio. Residents have been observed to listen and concentrate and "hear" memories and stories from this CD that relate to their own life experiences. This resource comes with a laminated A4 card with suggestions for 1:1 and group use with this CD.
$26.00
At FutureAge Care, our Diversional Therapist uses this CD a lot in the Sensory Room environment for adults and older people to enjoy. This CD is ideal and is utilised to help with sensory deprivation and isolation; with those who are often bed-confined or unable to access many other activities.
Sails at Dawn and Ship on the High Seas sample tracks
Sensory Programs CD contains 11 audio tracks of ambient sound, effects and music for use within the aged care setting and/or sensory and Snoezelen environments and as a backdrop to activities and themes. Over 1.5 hours of listening material. Use as a listening activity - guess the sounds and imagine what each sound is and what the music story is about. 2nd option is to play all tracks for residents to listen to as an engaging activity for those with dementia. Use to reminisce, tell stories, invite imagination...the resource uses are endless! This CD is a suitable alternative to noisy tv and radio and especially of benefit during sundowning to engage the listener's attention.
Titles include: Autumn Reflection, Down At The Farm, Cosy By The Fireplace, Outback Train, Botanical Gardens, Broadway Memories, Rainforest Delights, At Home with Baby, Nautical Adventure and Ocean Sleep.
Blended effects, familiar sound, ambience and music to suggest themes, spark imagination, story and memories. Part of our Sound Theatre© series and this resource comes with a double sided A4 laminated card of valuable suggestions and uses, all packaged in a plastic folder to keep your resources protected. Your sound stories include: a powerful steam train leaving a train station and journeying into the rugged outback with harmonica ditty music, a purring cat by the crackling fireplace, Botanical Gardens with fountains, natural environment and ducks quacking; the sounds of laughter and fun at the theatre and a giggling baby playing with Mum - listeners will enjoy and be stimulated by the interesting sounds, ambience and short music portions that reflect familiar life experiences. Listeners with dementia will usually identify some of the sounds correctly and "hear" other sounds and related memories along the way.
$26.00 60 minutes total duration. 
Uses: The Sensory Samples CD is used in residential care and community care with our company. We use this CD as a sound backdrop to enhance sensory room/areas, including our Ocean Sound Bath. You can sound additional musical instruments along with the CD, or use it on its own. It can help to combat sensory deprivation and we use with clients who are vision impaired, non-verbal (the CD has no spoken content) and those requiring sensory stimulation during their daily life.
These music samples can add to creative music making, storytelling, as a backdrop for relaxation and reminiscing themes. The Sensory Programs CD is a very popular resource within aged care. My favourite tracks are Botanical Gardens and Sensory Room Relaxation and I use this CD a lot with Sensory Room programs. JFreeman-FutureAge Care.
Listen to a sample from the track: Sensory Room Relaxation
Broadway Memories sample track
Sensory:
SENSA Kits are a new resource concept for carers and lifestyle and leisure staff. For use with clients with advanced dementia and low level responses, SENSA incorporates multisensory items and suggestions for activities, themes and therapeutic sensory enrichment.
We are working on an exciting new range of kits..please watch this space...
JOYA™ Massager Pen for therapeutic touch, gentle massage & sensory activity.
It literally is like working with a pen - this beautifully crafted massaging pen from Germany is ideal for sensory touch programs with clients who may benefit from the sensation of the smooth Rose Quartz gemstone rolling gently on their body. This pen is a unique tool that engages in therapeutic touch experiences between you and your client.
The diagram shows how the timber JOYA™ pens can be used on various parts of the body, including frail areas such as hands with arthritis and frail shoulders (check with client/health considerations first). This small massager pen can provide gentle and soothing relief from aches and pains with the freely rotating gemstone that is set into the top of the pen. The freely rotating crystal can be rolled with the pen onto direct skin or on top of clothing: the second option of which is ideal for those with very fragile skin.
The crystal gemstone feels cool to the skin and you can also gently heat it in warm water for warmth to the skin in the cooler months.
JOYA™ have created the Professional Massager Pen, which is made of white composite mineral, which is safe to clean thoroughly and sterilise. This is the same substance that is used for commercial and industrial bench tops and hospital grade areas that require thorough sterilisation. 
We have been using the professional pen with the rose quartz crystal with a client with Binswangers Dementia and she has enjoyed a lifestyle of beauty pampering and massage for many years. We also use the pens with younger clients with a brain injury and multiple disability diagnosis, as well as the frail elderly. Of course, the pen can also be used with staff!
We stock the JOYA™ Professional Pen and the cheaper Timber Pen - each comes with the Rose Quartz Gemstone.
Your
Kit is accompanied by a booklet on using the pen and a tote bag to keep the pen stored, plus a complementary relaxing CD called Soothing Rockpool. 
We have also included some additional information to help you get started with your client or residents.
Important information: for use with clients where the pen needs to be thoroughly sterilised after each use and/or if using with aromatherapy oil for eg - we recommend the Professional Pen (white). For clients where you are not using with oils and are using over their clothes, or where thorough sterilisation is not essential - we recommend the Timber Pen (brown) which can still be cleaned.
Testimonials: "I use the Joya Pens every week with my clients. I work with clients with traumatic brain injury, multiple disabilities and also the elderly, including those with dementia. The Joya pen is good for hands with stiff joints, spasticity and arthritis because it is gentle and I can control the amount of pressure I use. For clients who experience stiff neck and shoulders from wheelchair restriction and physical impairments, the Joya pen is a real treat and it’s very soothing and relaxing.
Some of my clients are “handled” physically for showering and toilet assistance every day and the Joya experience brings back some nurturing touch and tender sensory encounters. Before music activities, I use the Joya pen to help open up the palms of the hand so that a client can hold an instrument and participate. One client is really surprised that she can open her hand and hold things!
If there are cross contamination concerns I use the Joya Professional Pen, because it can be sterilised thoroughly. I keep a Joya pen with me everywhere I go and the value it brings to my therapies with clients is so real and is genuinely a great experience!" - Jennifer Freeman – Diversional Therapist, FutureAge Care.
The JOYA™ Professional Pen Kit is $125 and the Timber Pen Kit is only $65.
Pathfinder college-style activity courses for activity coordinators to run with residents. Our new Pathfinder© College Courses are for people living in residential aged care, dementia specific homes and for those attending day centre activities.
Similar to College and other learning style courses, Pathfinder presents a series of purposeful and structured activities to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Our aim is
to take your residents on a stimulating journey through a series of 8-10 activity course sessions, with a graduation and certificates of participation at the end of your course, during the final session. Activities can then be continued and developed into ongoing programs or the course can begin again with new participants.
Pathfinder Courses are designed for aged care and dementia specific environments, with groups of up to 12 residents, plus your nominated staff facilitator (and 2nd support person where possible). Each course consists of 8-10 sessions of achievable activities to enhance
cognition, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, creative energy and opportunities for self-expression among residents. The course creators are experienced in running these programs with clients themselves - so you can be guaranteed that the activities and techniques are suitable for the aged care environment and for facilitating with residents with dementia.
Pathfinder Courses come complete with everything you need to lead each session: A Facilitator’s Manual, Course Certificates, a Documenting Journal, DVD and CD (resources may vary with each course). Pathfinder takes your group on a journey that provides a sense of future, wellbeing and refreshing experiences to enjoy together. The way forward in innovative lifestyle and leisure activities for residents!
Fun, Food and Nutrition Pathfinder Course for aged care residents
This great food preparation and taste sensations course is created by Karen Abbey from Nutrition and Catering Consultancy (NACC), also listed on our Directory webpage. Karen is a nutritionist, author, aged care presenter and consultant who is passionate about food for seniors!
With Karen's expertise and knowledge on food and nutrition, we have come up with a fantastic, fun 10-session cooking activity course designed for residents in low and high care facilities. Your activity course comes with a manual, laminated recipe cards, cooking activity sign, documenting journal and certificates of participation for your "students".
The food activities are simple and easy to prepare together, with tasks along the way such as building a fruit salad, pikelets with a twist, risotto, pizza, vegetable patties and other mouthwatering taste sensation activities! The manual comes with vitamised alternatives for those on puree diets, plus food safety, handling, hygiene and program preparation guidelines.
Your food course with your participants can be run as a small group or with individual clients in there own home, for example. Everyone loves food and for those with dementia, exploring the textures and sensory pleasures with supervision can be a rewarding and familiar activity.
Fun, food and nutrition course for aged care residents: $180.00 (course materials can be re-used over and over again!)Food handlers certificate and basic food safety knowledge is required.
Manasa Yoga Resource Package
Manasa Yoga for the Mature Years
This course is created by Megan Ward from Manasa Yoga, Brisbane Dementia and Memory Community Centre - Alzheimer’s Australia QLD. Manasa Yoga for the Mature Years is a beautiful Yoga seated program combining gentle stretching and natural full breathing.
This resource helps to bring the rejuvenating benefits of Yoga exercise to all people, regardless of age or
ability. It offers 8 sessions with documented course notes supported by the Manasa Yoga DVD for Mature Years and the Anahata Mediation CD as the accompaniment.
This Yoga based
exercise program will help to not only support and improve the quality of life for the aged but also enhance and create a positive energetic environment for all who work in this area.
Manasa Yoga for the Mature Years is a gentle form of exercise accompanied by music and nature to provide a visual, emotional & physical sense of well being that energises the entire body. This course has been on sale through 2009 and has been purchased and enjoyed by many aged care facilities and organisations across Australia.
$180.00 - The Manasa Yoga College Course Package contains a Facilitator’s Instruction Manual
for 8x40 minute Yoga sessions, 1 Manasa Yoga DVD, 1 Anahata Meditation CD, 1 Documenting Journal, 12 Course Certificates (plus spares) and 1 laminated Yoga Class door sign. Your package comes in a sturdy plastic box file for safe storage.
$126.90 - Manasa Yoga Package Option 2 - This Manasa Yoga College Course Package contains everything except for the CD and DVD and is for customers who have already purchased the Yoga DVD and Meditation CD. This package contains the Facilitator’s Instruction Manual for 8x40 minute Yoga sessions, 1 Documenting Journal, 12 Course Certificates (plus spares) and 1 laminated Yoga Class door sign and no CD or DVD. Your package comes in a sturdy plastic box file for safe, easy storage.
Distance Learning Packages:
show•case
Aged Care Training Presentations for Best Practice
FutureAge Care’s very first best practice showcase: lifestyle, leisure & spiritual programs for residents in high-level nursing care is being held in Sydney on May 12th 2010. This training package contains the materials for those unable to attend.
• Multisensory Enrichment Programs and documentation and evaluation templates
• Techniques for interaction with clients with low-level responses/non-responsive clients
• Spirituality – identifying and nurturing the spiritual self in our residents
• Activities: focus for men | focus for women | pain intervention awareness
• Living environments: the way forward in developing healthy living areas and ambience
show•case takes you through a day in the life of a high-care residential home, with achievable activities and programs to address the lifestyle and leisure needs of a diverse range of residents. With practical information, techniques, training notes and most importantly – the “how to” in carrying out meaningful activity, life engagement and nurturing of the whole self, for those in our care.
show•case training package contents:
Training presentation manual, documentation templates, Sensory Audio CD and sturdy box file for storage.
$125.00
Sound for Health™ - Distance Learning Training Kit
Sound and listening awareness, activities and therapies for residents with high care needs including dementia, isolated, clients who are mostly bed-confined, palliative care, vision impairment and those unable to access many other activity programs within aged care or adult residential care.
Sound for Health™ - Topics include:
• Hearing, dementia and the ageing process effect on the senses
• Identifying sensory deprivation and environmental noise factors
• Creating healthy sound activities and a Sound for Health™ therapy for residents
• Planning, observations and accurate documentation
• Your Training Kit materials: Sensory audio CD for programs with residents, training manual and documentation templates, laminated activity sign, sturdy case file and certificate on completion of this training.
You will be required to submit 3 completed case study documentation sheets to us in order to obtain your certificate of completion. Suggested training time allocation is 5 hours plus 3 practical task sessions to submit. Sound for Health™ training is suitable for most people, regardless of current experience and qualifications. Correspondence with us during your training is at no extra charge. This training package is especially for those who are unable to attend the Sydney training days with FutureAge Care. Contact us if you would like to discuss your training first before ordering this resource kit.
Sound for Health™ Training Kit $195.00
Multisensory Health™ - Distance Learning Training Kit
