Home care for an aging parent is not an alternative to assisted living or nursing home care. To the contrary, any options other than home care should be viewed as alternatives Remaining at home is the most desirable option for most people. Finding Freedom at Home will help families who are facing this issue are who often confused about how to navigate the waters of home care. Common questions are: - What type of care is available? - What is appropriate? - Is it feasible for Mom to stay at home? - What about MY home? - How do we pay for home care? - Whom do we even ask? This book will answer these questions.

Hospice Palliative Care in Nepal is written in clear easy to understand language, with the Nepal Caregivers in mind. It guides you through best practices for providing care for the dying, adapting caregiving practices and includes caregiving stories from Nepal to meet the unique culture and expectations of Nepali society. Practical ways for managing common physical symptoms of the dying are explained, including: causes of common symptoms, palliative (medical) measures for treating symptoms, and comfort measures. Using this book will teach you about psychosocial issues that affect dying people and their family as well as ways to help people communicate in difficult situations.

Are you caring for someone with the Alzheimer's disease? Or you may want to know the facts? There has been a great number of occurrences of this disease among older adults. Their caregivers struggle the most. Cure and treatment is a mystery. Symptoms are treated but not cured. Research continues to find ways to battle this disease. It has been misunderstood by most of us. For the meantime, home care is an option. Though it seems difficult to manage the disease at home, a deeper meaning of compassion and care coexists there. This book aims to provide the important facts about the Alzheimer's disease and the management of it's symptoms in a home care setting. The chapters in this book are: Chapter 1 - Defining and Classifying Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 2 - Possible Causes and the Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 3 - Stages and Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 4 - Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 5 - Managing the Safety of a Person with Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 6 - Managing the Care of Bodily Symptoms through Prescribed Medications Chapter 7 - Managing and Intervening the Behavioral Symptoms Chapter 8 - Effectively Communicating to a Person with the Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 9 - Managing the Activities of Daily Living Chapter 10 - Basic Home Care Management

Are you caring for, or intending to care, for an elderly friend or relative and would like to make their life at home a viable and worthwhile alternative to residential care? Perhaps the prospect of caring seems overwhelming and you feel the need for some emotional or physical support. Then this book has been written for you. My book is not aimed at care workers who are trained to care, but at unpaid carers who are caring out of a sense of compassion, family loyalty or out of love. Caring For An Elderly Person At Home is not a textbook, but a friendly guide based on my own experiences of caring for elderly people in their own homes. I hope it will help with advice on the day-to-day tasks of caring and coping with important issues, such as failing health, poor mobility and financial matters. You will also find advice on how to obtain professional help when necessary.

Headaches What a pain they can be Millions of people are suffering from cluster and tension headaches. This is another very informative book by Robert Rymore. He continues with his interest in writing medical educational guides. This guide is intended to be a tool, one that will give you information and hopefully some pain relief. Cluster Headaches & Tension Headaches causes, remedies, relief, symptoms, treatment, managing pain, exercises all included. Readers will surely find much contribution by this book, to relief their pain or even to create a pain free healthy lifestyle. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. The content is informative, educative and easy to understand.

Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention--and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced and balanced portrait of the day-to-day lives of the people and organizations that devote their time to supporting America's aging population. Through extensive ethnographic research, interviews with staff and management, and analysis of internal documents, Rodriquez explores the inner workings of two different nursing homes--one for-profit and one non-profit--to understand the connections among the administrative regulations, the professional requirements, and the type of care provided in both types of facilities. He reveals a variety of challenges that nursing home care workers face day to day: battles over the budget; the administrative hurdles of Medicaid and Medicare; the employees' struggle to balance financial stability and compassionate care for residents. Yet, Rodriquez argues, nursing home workers give meaning and dignity to their work by building emotional attachments to residents and their care. An unprecedented study, Labors of Love brings new insight into the underlying structures of a crucial and expanding sector of the American health care system.

If you are someone new to the world of ostomies and stomas, this book will give you the basic information on how to care for them and help you feel comfortable in doing so.

MRSA infection is becoming increasingly prevalent in home care. This book was written by a registered nurse who has worked in home care and in infection control. If you follow the steps outlined in this book, you can feel safe that you are protecting yourself and your patient from this infection, which can be lethal for someone in a compromised medical state.

If you need to give yourself or someone else an IM injection, this handy guide is for you. You will learn all about syringes and needles and how to give the injection in the correct place.

Imagine you are in an unfamiliar country or situation. Would the confidential support and encouragement of another person having been through a similar experience be of help?

The DAFFODIL ("Dial A Family Friend Or Dial In Line") programme was developed as a communication network run by volunteers - mothers wanting to support other young mothers separated from family and friends.

This network, led by Sister Denise Latto PSM, lobbied Government agencies and businesses on behalf of parents and built trust, friendships and communities for new families making their homes in Salisbury, South Australia during the 1980's.

The founder of the group and author of this book offers the reader the same handy hints, recipes and simple remedies she gave to all parents during her time as a community child health nurse.

Mom was living a beautiful life when, all of a sudden, her left arm started to weaken. After several months of Doctor's visits and neurological testing Mom was diagnosed with ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease. Our family was devastated as we wondered what the remaining year would bring, knowing that there was no cure for this disease. My beautiful Mother was able to live the last year of her life at home with her family by her side. The journal I kept during her illness has now been put into a novel and I recommend anyone dealing with a neuromuscular disease to read it. My book will bring you tears of laughter and sadness as you walk the path with my Mom and I. I will share our experiences, the challenges ALS brings, and what can be done as a caregiver to help your loved one live a life with as much ease as possible. This book 'A Beautiful Smile' is a journey of our lives during the last year of my Mom's life before and after she was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig's Disease; the challenges, happiness, life changes, support, caregiving and appreciation for life. The main focus of this book will help in your caregiving efforts: Where to ask for help How to inform the family What to do in certain health related situations How to comfort Feeding the patient Administer medication What signs to look for at each phase of the disease How to care for yourself

This volume first examines projected demographic changes that will affect the economic well-being of China s rural elderly over the next twenty years, taking into account both China s sharp demographic transition and the continued migration of young adults into cities. The projected old age dependency ratio of 34 percent in China s rural areas by 2030 suggests that support of the elderly is likely to be an increasing burden on China s families over the next twenty years. The book next documents the sources of financial support, poverty incidence and vulnerability of the rural elderly since the early 1990s. China s rural elderly have been consistently poorer and more vulnerable to poverty than both working age households and the urban elderly. In contrast to the urban elderly who frequently have pension support, the rural elderly typically rely either on their own labor income or financial support from adult children. A substantial share of China s rural elderly continue to work well beyond the age 70, but labor as a primary source of support falls sharply during their 60s. Additional evidence suggests that the rural elderly work well beyond 60 out of necessity and only stop working when physically incapacitated. While average transfers from adult children to elderly parents are sufficient to keep them out of poverty, adult migrant children with uncertain income create the risk that transfers will not be sufficient to keep some rural elderly out of poverty. The final sections of the book review experiences with rural pensions during the 1990s and 2000s and draws out the lessons which have informed the design of a new national rural pension scheme. Among the many issues discussed, the report highlights the importance of providing incentives for participation in the pension scheme and important issues related to the portability of pensions for a mobile population."

This Comprehensive Guide will help you to: Transition to continuous home health care nursing Understand the foundation for home health care Massively improve your home health nursing skills Let me help you to make a smooth transition from facility nursing to home care nursing. Or if you are already a home care nurse, but recognize the need to improve your knowledge and skills in the specialty of continuous home health care, I can help you do just that Then this training will take you by the hand, and guide you every step of the way Here's what you get with this training guide: Description and explanation of Continuous Home Health Care, the nurse's training and responsibilities, and current trends within the specialty. Most common nursing procedures performed in the home, with pictures, and introduction to the most common home medical equipment including: Tracheostomy care - how to PEG Tube care - how to Ventilator care - how to Special intravenous infusion system - how to Plus much more

If you are caring for someone with an indwelling foley (urinary) catheter or a supra pubic catheter, this handy guide is for you. This book will teach you everything that you need to know to care for the catheter, and the patient, correctly and safely. It will also help you to feel comfortable in doing so.

This book is for all those who may have to enter, or place a loved one in a skilled nursing home. It comes from someone who has twenty-seven years of experience "in the trenches" as a director of nursing, administrator, regional manager and consultant in long-term care facilities, commonly known as nursing homes, reaching across the country. I have witnessed many, many family members' joy, tragedy, discouragement and elation in my nursing homes and I have learned from each of them. This is also for those who will feel or have felt the aching, pounding guilt because you had no other choice but a nursing home for your loved one. I dealt with the guilt of family members every day of my career. I understood the guilt and I understood the fear and concerns. They were entrusting a person that they loved very dearly to people they didn't know. Besides that, they had heard all the horror stories. Would all of these terrible things befall them and their loved one? If you are the caretaker of a loved one, there may come a time when you have reached the final limit. This is mostly guaranteed to happen unless the caregiver has devoted their entire life and future to the loved one. This does happen but most people cannot endure the physical and mental stress of the never-ending care and problems that go along with tending to their loved one's needs. It could be your very ill mother, incontinent of both bowel and bladder that requires feeding and total care. How long can you keep up the 24-hour job? You have a spouse and maybe even children that need attention and support from you. You will know when the time comes to do something. You can find no way around putting your loved one in a nursing home. You experience tremendous guilt; you lose sleep. But in the end, it's the only thing than can be done. The very ill can benefit from nursing home care at a good facility. Of course, there are also residents in nursing facilities who are recovering from surgery, are involved in extensive daily therapy and of course, the Alzheimer's victims and the grossly confused who benefit as well. Other patients with less severe problems can be admitted to assisted living centers until the required nursing care has surpassed the center's skills and licensing. There are bad assisted living centers just like there are bad hospitals and bad nursing homes. You've got to do your homework. Through this writing, I will attempt to acquaint you with how a good nursing home is run, how to tour a nursing home and what to look for. There will be tips and a few stories along the way. It is my hope that you will realize that the nursing home experience doesn't have to be a horror story, and that you will know you have the ability to find the right place for your loved one. So, come along with me. It won't be complicated and as I said, I've included some of my stories to make it easier to understand. The last thing I want is for this work to be as dry as a textbook. You will find many facts repeated in this book. I've done this on purpose as there are always many different contexts. My main purpose is to help you find the nursing home right for you and your loved one, break down the fear of nursing homes and relieve some of the guilt trips so very common in family members. Only with a positive attitude can you and your loved one make the nursing home experience a good one. I will always urge you to do your homework in selecting the long-term care facility that is right for you and/or your loved one. This is for you.

A compelling navigation through the questions, problems, and risks involved in choosing an assisted living facility. Winner of the 2007 American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award in the categories of public policy and creative writing. A compelling navigation through the questions, problems, and risks involved in choosing an assisted living facility. Winner of the 2007 American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award in the categories of public policy and creative writing.

"This excellent and accurate personal documentation by a long-distance caregiver as he 'travels' with his mother from her fierce independence to dependence is a very helpful guide to assist us as we care for our loved ones in their advanced years - and plan ahead for ourselves."

- Hon. Dorcas R. Hardy, Former Commissioner of Social Security and 2005 White House Conference on Aging Chair

You're returning home from a conference at the other end of the county, switch on the answering machine at two in the morning and hear the words, "I'm dying." First, you know it just can't be true-she's been a hypochondriac all her life-but this time it may be. How do you literally drop a full life overnight to run a home hospice? This book is written by a younger sister, a psychotherapist and Psychosynthesis trainer. It's a story we all need to know as the population grows older, and most become caregivers in the home at some point. Included are many useful quotes, references from experts like James Pennebacker and Steven Levine, and the author's reflections. CYNTHIA PINCUS RUSSELL Russell, PhD, has published extensively in both general and academic periodicals. She teaches and supervises Psychosynthesis, collecting techniques from a variety of cultures for rapid recovery and growth. Dr. Russell has also been on the clinical faculty at Yale School of Medicine for years and served as Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry (Psychology) as a supervisor. Her writing includes three books, dozens of articles, research on adult development and depression, poetry, non-fiction and fiction. Her book, "Double Duties," was a Woman Today Book Club selection, and Book of the Year of the New Haven Public Library. An essay, "Coming Home," was reprinted in seven languages. Recent publications include the poem "Memorial Day" in "Beyond Lament," an anthology of poems on the Holocaust, and poems in "Castalian Springs," "Orange Willow Review," "Red Oak" and many others. Articles have appeared in "The New York Times," "Parents," "Columbia," and other periodicals. Her "Patient as Teacher" program represents twelve years of research and interviews, and has been excerpted on line by the Yale School of Medicine.

Myrna Jamont, throughout her career, has worked in medicine, surgery, pediatrics and ICU. While employed at a long-term care facility, she became interested in the prevention of skin breakdown and treatment of wounds. In 2000, she completed the prescribed program of the University of Toronto International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course. Her position as Equipment and Standardization Nurse in the Saskatoon Health Region included educating staff on the use of all equipment and products available to prevent and treat wounds. As a consultant, she continues to educate as a Skin Care and Wound Management Facilitator/Educator.

Boxed set contains: * ECAT Manual * ECAT Cue Card Pack * ECAT Assessment Forms * CD-ROM (of reproducible forms and cards) * light and sound meter As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's ability to express needs and desires. But how do you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life? The Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit (ECAT) for Dementia Care is your answer! This evidence-based toolkit includes the tools you need to assess, intervene, and modify on an individualized basis to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. Use the validated Assessment Forms, and in three easy-to-follow steps you will: Assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions Evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems Pinpoint individualized recommendations for intervention And it's not only person-centered but real-world! ECAT's developers are researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure that ECAT: Integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions Helps keep up case load demands with creative solutions Satisfies regulatory requirements Leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions Identifies low-cost, person-centered environmental modifications In field-tests, 97% of professionals using ECAT reported it gave them new treatment options to use with clients with dementia. Discover for yourself the surprisingly simple environmental changes that can improve functional independence and resident well-being-changes such as supporting bathroom independence by increasing the size of sign lettering to identify spaces and using colored tape around a door handle, or encouraging social interaction by rearranging seating areas. ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that will reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally based assessment and intervention system, you're equipped with solutions!