{"id":4064,"date":"2021-06-18T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:58:17","slug":"gerontology-hands-on-learning-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/18\/gerontology-hands-on-learning-day\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Shoes: NTC Hosts Inaugural Hands-On Gerontology Learning Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4065\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4065 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gerontology Learning Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Gerontology-Learning-Day-06012021-226x170.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kleeb, Potratz and Unzeitig.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Northwest Technical College&rsquo;s pilot class of gerontology students gathered on campus for the program&rsquo;s inaugural hands-on learning day on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>After a welcome from NTC&rsquo;s gerontology faculty Dr. Wendy Potratz and Alicia Carley, the students completed a dementia lab where they were dressed in simulation equipment and instructed to complete a number of tasks. They also met with guest speakers including Connie Norman, community health worker at Bemidji&rsquo;s Sanford Health, and Jenn Cole, caregiver advocate from Northwoods Caregivers in Bemidji, who discussed local resources for aging adults.<\/p>\n<p>The day came to a close with additional aging simulators for Parkinson&rsquo;s disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, vision and more.<\/p>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wendy Potratz, community health worker and gerontology faculty; (218) 333-6648, <a href=\"mailto:wendy.potratz@ntcmn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">wendy.potratz@ntcmn.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/gerontology\/\">Gerontology &amp; Aging Care<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2021-N-073<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwest Technical College\u2019s pilot class of gerontology students gathered on campus for the program\u2019s inaugural hands-on learning day on June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,6,7,31,3,4],"tags":[38,40,37,41,39],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-landing-page","category-myntc","category-success","category-people","category-top-story","tag-aging","tag-dementia-lab","tag-gerontology","tag-hands-on","tag-simulation","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}