Aging in Prison - NIC Resources

Effectively Managing Aging and Geriatric Offenders [Satellite/Internet Broadcast held March 11, 2010]

This 3-hour program will interest anyone dealing with geriatric offenders. Issues covered during this presentation include:

• Who geriatric offenders are
• Awareness of their needs
• Staff training
• And special considerations for this population.

Participants will be able to: develop criteria to identify geriatric offenders; describe challenges and options for training staff and improving day to day operations to better manage this population; identify strategies, including stand-alone and integrated approaches, to address geriatric offenders’ needs; and identify sources of information and technical...

Losing Time: Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Behind Bars [Webinar]

Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, is difficult to detect in a population often afflicted with other mental illnesses and maladaptive social behaviors. During this interactive webinar we will explore how symptoms and behaviors can be misconstrued and identify environmental risk factors that can contribute to costly accidents and injury for inmates with dementia.

We will also take an in-depth look at the Gold Coat program based at the California Men's Colony State Prison in San Luis Obispo. This model consists of...