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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
Talk To History - Our Mission
Nursing homes and full time care facilities are a necessity for the majority of America's aging population. The goal of Talk To History is to make senior care facilities a valuable resource to their communities.
This goal is reached in two ways:
1) Opening up senior care facilities to children
Talk To History's education program that works with local school districts, private schools, colleges and nursing care facilities in an organized effort that allows students to interact with the elderly. The program fosters a relationship between children and seniors in their community by having students visit these facilities on a consistent basis. This provides comfort and much needed mental stimulization and human interaction with the patients and educates the students about aging and the value of every stage of the human life.
The program can be integrated with the social studies curriculum of each grade, marrying the time period studied with the elderly patients, allowing students the opportunity to meet someone who experienced this time period, first hand.
Talk To History provides an orientation class for the students, outlining what they might experience and the benefits of visiting with seniors in their community. This class also provides guidance on behavior towards the elderly.
Talk To History works with the staff at each nursing care facility to learn more about the patients who will be receiving visits from the students. A poster is designed for elderly patient, with pictures (if available) of the patients as they lived and worked and information on the patient, their career their family life, etc. This poster is placed near the patient's bed and allows the student visitors to look beyond the present state of the elderly patient and see them as they once were, vibrant members of their communities.
Talk To History's educational program brings comfort to the elderly patients and teaches students to understand and appreciate our aging community.
2) Talk To History helps nursing homes and senior centers to open up their facilities to the community in an effort to bring visitors to the elderly and to bridge the gap between patients and their communities.
Talk To History works with senior care facility staff to develop local events, art galleries, live music and other social gatherings of interest to patients and the community.
Currently, patients in nursing care facilities often feel isolated from their communities. Talk To History helps communities embrace their senior care facilities as fun, interesting places to visit. In doing so, patients will, once again, be able to be a vibrant part of their communities
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