Family Connection Services: Innovations in Nursing Rehabilitation Support

1. Candidate Services and Interventions: • Family commitment • Life stories and staff knowledge • Bedside Journal for Nursing Rehab Patients • Purposeful activities – e.g. Legacy Projects • New Devices - Sensors •  Invent Your own Service or Intervention! An Architecture for Services • Integrate Family, Staff, Professional and automated services • Tools for influencing and coordinating participants. • Wizard of OZ – Man behind the curtain incremental service integration and development Research specific support • Data collection and analysis • Consenting • Start with 3 graduate students and a computer • Formal and soft instruments, administration, tracking, analysis New Community based technology:the Family Connections Service • Radically Lower Cost • Assisted Sending (e.g. Card Parties) • A Shared service – Public Card Kiosks • Participation across a wide range of resident capabilities and inclinations Research Collaborations underway: • Sample Cards: • Valentines, Easter, Birthday • Stationery for notes and clippings • Family visit and community event cards • Guided Journals • Univ. of Minnesota, School of Nursing; NINR • Univ. of Alabama, Center for Mental Health and Aging, Veterans Administration • Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Center on Aging. NIA •  More under development Technology for Remote Family Support for People with Cognitive Disabilities A Platform for Research on Caregiving Services Principal Investigator: Michael Williams, PhD