There IS more to talk about than the weather! Visit kits make it easy for friends, family, or volunteers of any age to have a good visit with an older adult.

Regular, effective visits are good for physical and mental health. When visits are fun, they happen more often and they are visits to remember!

The Visit Kit Set:

- Manual, Time Well-Spent

- 12 two-sided Visit Cards with photos, activities, and discussion starters (please see below for details)

- 12 Instruction Sheets

- Props for every topic

- 12 HangUp bags

- HangUp™ rack to keep everything together

VK199 $195

Individual Pieces of the Visit Kit Available for Purchase:

Time Well-Spent:

The Visit Kit Manual

By Gayle Allen-Burket, CTRS. spiral-bound, 133 pages.

This guide is useful all by itself. Set up or expand your own visiting program! Learn how to:

-recruit and organize volunteers

-motivate and train visitors, and

-document the visits.

VK281 $30

Visit Cards

The 12 Visit Cards with an eight-page brochure of discussion questions and visit suggestions. By them here without props and save money or purchase the visit kit if you would like props. Props are listed below.

VK929 $25

Card Topics and Props

Advertising: deck of playing cards (with advertising, of course!)

Courting: dance card with pencil

Cure-Alls: small bottle of healing tonic

Fabrics: eight fabric swatches (8 inch squares)

Gardening: rain gauge and rubber worms

Hair: tortoise shell hairpin and shaving brush

Hats: Victorian half-masks with hats - a man's and woman's

Main Street: old-fashioned lamp post

Picnics: red-checked napkin and two plastic ants

Table Games: complete set of dominoes

Vacations: souvenir pencil sharpener of the Statue of Liberty and a vacation post card

Visits: 3 silk roses