Applied Video Services presents
two DVDs designed to
train attendants for disabled people.

“Attendant Care Basics”	“Getting On With Living”

 

“Attendant Care Basics”

Running time: 48 minutes.

Take control of your attendant training with “Attendant Care Basics” Awarded Best Training film by the "Rehabilitation Film Festival"

“Attendant Care Basics” is being used by independent living centers throughout the United States to train attendants. Several states have purchased many copies and distributed them to ILPs, county libraries or other institutions.

“Attendant Care Basics” is a film in which a diverse group of women and men explain how they independently deal with their attendant needs. Taking their fates into their own hands they train either family members or paid attendants to do the types of activities each one decides are necessary in the way each one prefers.

After viewing this film, showing it to the person you are training, and discussing the areas which the film lays out, you and your prospective attendant will be able to organize your own personal attendant program, decide on the requisite hours and payment, work out a contract, and get on with life. Naturally, a thorough discussion of the whole attendant process with trained medical and rehabilitation personnel before you start trying to train your attendant, will be worthwhile.

“Attendant Care Basics” has been used by Independent Living Centers in almost every state in the union to train attendants for many years. It is now available to individuals for the first time. Take control of a big part of your life by managing the training of your attendants yourself.

“Attendant Care Basics” consists of ten lessons:

• I: Introduction to Disability, Independent Living & Attendant Work
• II: Housecare and Domestic Work
• III: Bed Mobility and Positioning
• IV: Skin Care and Bathing
• V: Range of Motion and Exercise
• VI: Dressing and Grooming
• VII: Transfers and Body Mechanics
• VIII: Bowl and Bladder Programs
• IX: Transportation
• X: Contract and Wrap-up

“Getting On With Living”

Running time: 57 minutes

“Getting On With Living” is a companion film to “Attendant Care Basics”.

In this film the people who participated in “Attendant Care Basics” relate the stories of their lives. They range from a young woman and a young man who were recently disabled in industrial accidents to an elderly man who has lived a varied and productive life with multiple sclerosis. These women and men have each had to work through for themselves what becoming disabled meant. None of these processes were smooth or easy. Several of these people have become active in the independent living movement. Each is, in her or his own way, a prime example of an individual who has persevered and made a life worth living.

This informative and inspirational film is useful for newly disabled people, for the friends and relatives who will be participating in the changed lives to come, and for the general public whose understanding of and appreciation for the disabled community is constantly growing.