Emphasizes to older adults that firesafety is an area of their lives where they can take control. Helps older adults recognize their increased risk of injury and death by fire, understand the leading causes of fires in the home and how easy it is to prevent them, learn basic home fire prevention and feel confident about practicing it, and know what to do in the event of a fire. Three instructional modules with a total of 7 lessons that can be team-taught to senior citizens by a county extension agent, county health nurse, and local health care professionals. Revolves around 12 specially designed camera-ready newsletters that can be localized and distributed among senior citizens. Newsletters are not available on disk.
Senior volunteers can share their wealth of skills, knowledge and experiences.
Includes a video tape and supporting published materials that highlight opportunities for expanding Extension gerontology educational programs to the aging network at national, state and community levels. Contains outlines from Volumes 1-7 and selected resources. The condensed version contains only the core subject matter of each volume and not the wide range of support materials found in each manual. 1996 color 14 min.