TimeSlips at UNCW

A story on TimeSlips appeared in the the December issue of NC*Aging which is now available at http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/newsletter/2003/2003-12.html

Description

Time Slips began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in1998 as a research project of Dr. Anne Basting. She and her team of artists, caregivers, and people with dementia wanted to see if creative storytelling could help open communication with and understanding of people with Alzheimer's disease.  Since January 2001 UNCW students have been assisting in a North Carolina effort to reproduce the Time Slips project in our region.  This project has multiple objectives including applying sociological research skills in a practical setting, the fostering of intergenerational relationships and reducing incidents of isolation in long-term care facilities. Students work in groups of two-four with employees of these facilities.  Using training materials published by Anne Basting students participate in interactive, intergenerational storytelling workshops for older adults including people with Alzheimer's or related dementia for ten weeks and will then reflect on these activities.  Students are required to visit either an adult day care or a long-term care facility for one hour each week with members of your student team for each of ten weeks. At the end of the ten weeks, students present “Time Slips” activities to an audience of participants and their family members.  These have been celebrative events. More information on Dr. Basting and her Time Slips project is available on the Time Slips website at: http://www.timeslips.org/.

How We Got Started

Jan Moxley and Sylvia O'Kelley of the North Carolina Division of Aging attended a training workshop on Time Slips conducted by Dr. Basting. They were so impressed that they later purchased training materials published by Dr. Basting. Ms. Moxley and Dr. Covan worked together as co-chairs of the 2001 North Carolina Summer Symposium on Aging with a theme of service-learning. When Jan learned that Dr. Covan was looking for a new service-learning project for her own students she suggested Time Slips and further suggested that Time Slips be a focal point of the 2001 North Carolina Summer Symposium on Aging. Jan Moxley and Sylvia O'Kelley provided five hours of training divided into three class sessions for Dr. Covan, her students, and staff of three long term care and two adult day care facilities. They later visited student facilitators on location to observe and critique Time Slips activities. They were impressed and Time Slips continues...

UNCW Time Slips Stories

UNCW Student Reflections on Time Slips

12/09/2003
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