The Caring Game - ( Click here for a demo )

• A way to enhance our caring and increase our sensitivity to the issues and concerns of those receiving in-home long-term care.
  
• An educational and team-building experiential workshop for staff, volunteers, students, homecare workers, nurses, hospice volunteers, social workers, and personal support workers.

  The board-game format makes this teaching tool an accessible and valuable learning opportunity, revealing a view of life that often exists behind closed doors.

How does it work?

• Disabilities including Alzheimer's Disease, elder frailty, stroke, arthritis, Acquired Brain Injury, and Multiple Sclerosis, as well as issues of diversity and elder abuse are addressed.
  
• An audiotape provides players with an identity they assume for the duration of the game.
• Each game-board square presents an actual incident that has happened to someone receiving in-home care.
• The workshop includes discussions that help caregivers understand how people feel while they cope with their loss of independence and increased need for support.
• The detailed facilitator's manual included with the kit allows organizations to provide learning opportunities in-house.
  

Is The Caring Game effective?

• It's rated "very good" to "excellent" by 90% of those surveyed.
• Caregivers say it helps them understand how to improve their workthat it helps create a better experience for all parties involved.
• Independence, respect, and self determination are important to maintain in old age and illness. The Caring Game gives players a new understanding of how these values play out in in-home care.

INITIAL SET OF THE CARING GAME SELLS OUT - THE SECOND PRINTING IS HERE!

The Caring Game is an experiential workshop that uses a game board format to sensitize participants to the issues, feelings and concerns of those receiving in-home long-term care. In 2001 the Ontario Trillium Foundation funded Care Watch Toronto to produce 250 The Caring Game kits.

We are pleased to report that the first printing was so popular we sold out! Colleges and universities throughout the province are now using The Caring Game as a training tool for students. Also Hospices, seniors’ residences and other health related associations including the physically disabled, use The Caring Game as part of the orientation for their Volunteers. Many facilities employing home care workers have found the Game to be very beneficial for their training programs

As a result of our success, we have produced an additional 250 kits. The kits come inclusive with two game boards, an audiotape of the characters talking about themselves, a detailed manual for facilitators and handouts. The response from those who have played The Caring Game is consistently excellent. Participants say that their awareness and understanding is enhanced by the experience. We welcome all inquiries.

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Care Watch Toronto gratefully acknowledges the financial support of The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation. With $100 million in annual funding from the province's charitable gaming initiative, the Foundation provides grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts, culture, sports, recreation, environment, and social service sectors.

We've put together an animated demonstration of the Caring Game.

It includes pictures and sound samples from the game audio tapes.
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The Caring Game kit comes with

• two game boards,
• six diverse characters,
• an audio tape,
• a detailed facilitator's manual, and
• up to 12 players per kit.
  

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