Geriatric Simulator

The nursing students love the Geriatric Simulator. When the students put on all the equipment it gives them a better understanding of what a Geriatric Patient is going through with issues such as mobility. Using this simulator makes things so realistic for students. We get so many compliments about the kit. Great investment.

Parlier High School purchased this simulator for our medical pathway and our students really enjoyed the making the geriatric experience real. We had a campus walkthrough and various staff members even got to enjoy this products. It was awesome!

The time it takes to put on all of the simulator components has been helpful for students to realize just how significant the impact is on a client’s life. I think it’s helped clients’ challenges become more real to them.

The Geriatric Simulator has been a great resource for teaching occupational therapy students. I am able to use pieces of the Simulator in particular units, such as a low vision, and has a whole at the end of the semester to put everything together. It is a great additional to our course.

As a director, I was immediately drawn to the increased opportunity for engagement that the simulators would bring as instructional methodologies to facilitate hands-on learning, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning prior to direct patient care.

The students loved being able to put themselves in the position of a geriatric patient. They said it helped a lot with empathy toward the patient. They especially liked the weighted vest, walking with the glasses and walker (and we added in breathing through a straw during their walking time also). They had a new perspective once our sensory lab was completed.

This is an excellent training simulator. With COVID19 we are not allowed into facilities to complete clinical training and this simulator has allowed us the opportunity to provide training in our simulation lab and give our students as real as possible learning opportunities!

Excellent product for teaching Allied Health students! They absolutely love this product. I receive so many compliments on how this product makes the geriatric experience so real. They really can empathize with those with diseases or understanding the challenges of our geriatric population.

This is my first time using the Geriatric Simulator and it was a great one! I used as a precursor to starting my nurse aide training program and the students LOVED it! The curriculum was a great and the PowerPoints were very helpful. Empathetic training at it's best! Thank you!

Our students enjoy the realism of the equipment and the authenticity of the limits that face the geriatric population. Allows students to grasp real care considerations when interacting with geriatric patients.

This is an excellent tool for teaching empathy and increasing understanding of the patient's challenges for any healthcare student. The one suggestion I would offer is to make the set of glasses also available as a separate purchase. The glasses are useful to Diagnostic Medicine class; the other items are NOT part of the standards for that course.

The Geriatric Simulator helps me to teach empathy for our elderly and disabled residents each and every time I use it during the Nursing Assistant courses I teach. I can see the light bulbs come on by the facial expressions of my students as they attempt to see to perform tasks wearing the visual deficit equipment. Or how difficult it can be to take a deep breath when walking around the classroom wearing a vest which is weighted to simulate the heaviness of their chest after taking medications designed to control blood pressure or just plain having a breathing deficit from chronic COPD. It has been a great tool when talking about the different body systems, aging changes and conditions which can impact all of us at some point as we get older. As a nurse educator I would highly recommend the suit as an interactive teaching tool to avoid the over lecturing and the boredom that can sometimes happen.

The Geriatric Simulator is such an awesome tool for teaching empathy and sensitivity to CNA and nursing students. It helps them really put themselves in the shoes of the elderly and feel what it's like to have restricted mobility, loss of vision, and other conditions elderly people deal with.

I have used this tool a little untraditionally in the past -- as a way to engage with potential employees at job fairs. It really helped me connect with potential applicants and let them see exactly how big of an impact they could make on the lives of the elderly if they chose to work in a senior care facility.

I absolutely love how this tool can be used for education and recruitment purposes.

Highly recommend it for your program!

- Jeanie Stanek
Employment Marketing Consultant
The Northworks
www.thenorthworks.com