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."

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.

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

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.

This workbook, Love, Laughter, & Mayhem In Eldercare Facilities: The Master Key For Dementia Training, is your one-stop-shopping guide for giving your staff the crucial training required to be the most effective and knowledgeable caregivers to residents with dementia. What other staff training offers insights into a caregiver's work ethic, or how to turn those demanding family members into friends? This training workbook is truly the "Master Key" for dementia education you've been searching for.

Research Administration and Management is written for any individual who is involved in the leadership, development, management and support of this research. The text will guide readers with information and motivation to gain further knowledge and develop their skills as research administrators. This comprehensive text provides examples of concepts and case studies, a glossary of terms and acronyms, and references to books, specific journal articles, and relevant federal regulations. Topics covered throughout range from a review of research administration, to the infrastructure necessary to support the research, to project development and post-project plans. Research Administration and Management is an excellent reference for research managers, and administrators in colleges, universities, hospitals, and research institutes receiving federal research funds. Grant and contract funding groups will also benefit from the wide range of information in this text.

Public health and the nursing role: contemporary principles and practice is an essential resource which reflects the growing need for all nurses to maintain and improve health as well as treating illnesses. This book takes as its starting point that the aims of public health and health promotion are key components of the nursing role and daily nursing care. Writing in a clear and lively style, the authors provide both an academic and practical account of public health for all nursing practice.
Beginning with the question 'what is the public health agenda and why does it matter?' the book examines and critiques core policies, theories, and models in healthcare. The role of the nurse in improving health is explored in the context of the scope of nursing practice and working with patients and interprofessional colleagues. Key nursing skills of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care are outlined before the authors demonstrate how nurses can make important interventions on health issues such as mental health, obesity, sexual health, smoking, alcohol and long term conditions.
Written as a core undergraduate course book this text is key reading for all pre registration nursing students who need to understand what public health means to nursing and need the skills required for all nurses practicing in the 21st century. Students on post registration courses will find this to be a helpful introduction.
Online material
DT Current web links and regular updates.
DT RSS feeds from organisations such as the NMC, DOH, NICE, UK Public Health Institute and more.
DT Checklists for patient assessments and interviews.
DT Web links to existing health promotion interventions on key clinical topics, which have been developed elsewhere.
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Home Care How To is an in depth guide to helping anyone start and run their own in home care business. You will learn the systems and step-by-step activities required to setting up and operating your elder care company. Discover the secrets, opportunities and pitfalls to watch for that other senior care and home health agency franchisees pay tens of thousands for! Find out how to staff your business with excellent care providers and how to effectively market your services to the growing number of aging baby boomers and their parents.

This guide will help Long Term Care nurses everywhere with quick references for documentation, medications, assessments, lab information, post mortum care, survey preperation and much more. Almost 400 pages of resources that are needed on a daily basis. Resources that you will not find anywhere else. A must have for every Long Term Care nurse.

ELDER CARE JUST GOT EASIER ... Get better care for your aging elder, reduce your stress and live a more balanced life. Here is your complete "essential insider's reference" that guides you through the often unfriendly and challenging waters known as eldercare. You'll refer to it again and again. You will discover simple steps that: * Get the help you need when you need it * Quickly locate money to pay for care * Melt your elder's resistance to getting help * Build a personal support network ready and willing to help * Handle the inevitable conflicts with family members * Create and maintain a balanced life as a caregiver * Access valuable government benefits to reduce caregiving's financial burden

Presenting evidence-based practice throughout, this easy-to-read manual is a comprehensive guide to preventing and managing falls in hospitals and long-term care settings. Now in its fourth edition, the award-winning guide explores the internal and external causes of falls, analyzes their consequences, provides clinical assessments for actual falls as well as risks for falling, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to falls management. Jam-packed with practical strategies, assessment tools, and management practices, Falls in Older People includes all the medical, rehabilitative, and environmental strategies needed in any care setting to protect the safety and health of at-risk older adults.

Is a loved one close to you dealing with an emotional illness like: depression, mania, senility, suicide, terminal illness, schizophrenia, child abuse or psychiatric emergencies? This book will help you care for them more effectively. The families of the emotionally ill are faced with a most difficult and painful task. Wanting to help, as they always do, they too often feel at a loss trying to cope with the frustrating, often self-defeating behavior of the people they are caring for. Along with genuine concern and love, therefore, families often feel guilt, anger, and resentment. This confusion of feelings interferes with the therapeutic process and prevents family members from realizing what they can do to aid recovery. When the care of the patient takes place primarily in the home, as it usually does, the need to understand is particularly urgent. What psychiatrist Fredric Neuman provides is a guide for the various people-including family members, paraprofessional therapists, and professionals-who are called upon to help those suffering from mental and emotional disorders. He gives no easy answers. Instead, he offers practical and useful advice that allows families and other involved persons to work with the primary therapist to determine treatment. Through the straightforward presentation of representative cases Dr. Neuman is able to shed much-needed light on the dark passages of emotional illness. The return to mental health is never simple, but there is hope. Caring will help those involved discover that hope through understanding.

It is my hope that this text, when properly used will be of great benefit to the individual aide or aide intraining in mastering the required skills that would make the individual a good home health aide.

The book has been specially tailored as a teaching tool for home health aides.The book has two sections, the tutorial section one and the practical hands on section two. The second section is a good aide or good training tool for practical demonstartion purposes.

For the purpose of understanding only, a home health aide does not have to be a Certified Nurses Aide. As a result this book can be used to train and prepare an individual to function in the capacity of a home health aide. The agency must prepare a set of standardized tests for the aides to ensure that the individual have fully internalized the reaching and traning that they have been put through.

This book further addresses the rule and regulation (federal and State) that the home health aide must be familiar with.

This book is an excellent tool for the home health aide. I strongly encourage all individual who practice and plans to practice as an aide in the home health field to read this book.

This is an idea source for horticultural therapy programs, schools, senior care facilities and individuals of all ages and abilities. These projects and plant related activities range from easy to difficult, and each has a touch of whimsy. The authors explain that whimsy is the counterpoint to the serious work of being human. These projects were designed by professional horticultural therapists to be fun while serving as great physical, mental and social exercises for everyone. Contains four kinds of activities Plant projects with creative activities and care notes accompanying each one. Craft activities range from creating a "Peace Card" to "Turning Your Problems into Compost." Quizzes on everything from garlic to coconuts. These are great conversation starters. Short stories that can be read aloud to a group or individually while waiting for the plants to grow. These are great springboards for discussion. There is also a comprehensive list of both safe and dangerous plants. Teachers, home schoolers, activity professionals, counselors, horticultural therapists, family caregivers and individuals of all ages will find these pages of value. The focus is on empowerment and creativity.

A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes
Written with authority and compassion, this is the book that rescues mental illness from the shadows and takes the disability into the community.
Learn how each person can play a role to help those who so often suffer alone. Hear the stories of the people who ve found how to triumph over this disability. Discover how everyone can work together to create a treatment revolution that enriches and saves lives. Let this guide open your heart and mind to be inspired and challenged to do the work ahead.
A Book that will Change Your Community
"Larry Hayes provides families with a real self-help manual that is personal and compassionate, yet practical and hands-on. It is long overdue and can only come from someone who has been there--in the trenches. Larry certainly has."
--Stephen C. McCaffrey, President, Mental Health America of Indiana
"With a father's wit and a reporter's well-honed writing skills, Larry Hayes uses his family's story to offer practical suggestions about how communities can help persons with mental illnesses recover and thrive. This is a wonderful blueprint that spells out ways to change lives and help persons seldom seen or heard."
--Pete Earley, author, "CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness"
"Larry Hayes demonstrates in this book a very rare gift that he has, the ability to reduce complex social problems to simple terms. In addition, he fills the book with practical solutions and ways to reduce the somet-imes debilitating effects of mental illness."
--James C. Howell, Ph.D., juvenile justice researcher

Since the first edition of this book was published, there has been considerable change across public health, health visiting and community nursing. The positive emphasis on developing and describing all services in relation to their purpose and client/user group is reflected in this second, emphasizing multi-disciplinarity and service focus rather than individual professions, whilst retaining the essential emphasis on policy and practice. Familiar occupational titles, such as health visitor, community development worker, midwife or nurse are still used within the chapters, recognizing the continued division of labour and major contributions to public health made by specific grass roots occupations. This second edition has been completely reorganised, expanded and updated to keep up with the rapid progress across the field of community public health. 'Key issues' boxes identify major topics within each chapter Discussion questions stimulate debate Boxes present information in a reader friendly, memorable format Each chapter provides extensive research, conceptual critique, information about sources, and resources for further information. Seven totally new chapters on Partnership Working; Parenting and Family Support; Complex Community-based Initiatives; Leadership through Alongsideness; Quality in a Public Health Service and Immunization Four chapters completely rewritten: Health Needs Assessments; Collaborating for Health; Breastfeeding and Public Health; Safeguarding Children All remaining chapters have been substantially updated.

Community health care nursing in Australia: Context, Issues and Applications is a core textbook for students and community nurses within the Australian community health care context. Structured in three parts, it is written for Australian nurses by Australian community nurses. Part one, context, explores the context and organisation of community health nursing in Australia addressing the context of primary health care and community nursing in Australia, organisation of Community Nursing in Australia, quality improvement, transition, legal and ethical issues and managing risk.Part two, Issues, explores the changing face of community health and discusses some of the pertinent issues facing community nursing including changing data needs and social demographics, changing models of community care and the changing focus to encompass care of more acutely ill clients in the community, changing professional roles, care planning, organisation culture and change management and research informing community nursing. Part 3, Applications, explores community nursing in practice encompassing specific aspects of care such as rural and remote community nursing, care of clients with chronic conditions, palliative care, transcultural community nursing, safety, universal precautions and infection control in the community, caring for people at risk, care of the maternal/child client group, and caring for older people living in the community.

The 'gold standard' text in community health nursing is now available in an updated, 7th edition! This respected text gives you a solid foundation in community and public health nursing concepts and interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Throughout, health promotion and disease prevention concepts are integrated into the multifaceted role of population-focused, community-oriented nursing practice. You'll find timely coverage of topics such as nursing roles following terrorist attacks and during infectious disease outbreaks; parish nursing; nurse-managed centers; and, important client populations such as clients with AIDS, pregnant teens, and the homeless. Student-friendly features provide an accessible and challenging learning experience, and new content throughout keeps you up to date with this fast-changing field.

Children's and young people's (CYP) nursing requires special skills and a unique perspective. The Oxford Handbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing gives concise, practical and expert advice on all aspects of the nurse's role. Written for both practising and student nurses, it is a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of children and young people in a family context. Giving a complete picture of the role of the CYP nurse, the contents are arranged to mirror the key concepts of CYP nursing. Helping you achieve the best possible results for your patients, the authors offer a wealth of recommendations, guidance and information from their years of experience. Whatever situation you are in, the Oxford Handbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing will give you the information you need. Designed to allow any nurse to deliver safe and effective care, basic principles and emergency protocols enable action to be taken in any setting and without expert assistance.Core content includes assessment; management; and advice to the family; with sections on recognition of deviations from the norm; the interpretation of clinical findings and investigations; and measures to promote successful care practice. Further key topics include normal growth and development, religion, culture and spirituality, professional issues, pain, palliative care and a separate section on paediatric emergencies. So you can find the information you need without delay, the book is clearly laid out with one topic per page, and written in an easily readable note-based style. Blank pages for writing notes, observations and local protocols allow your handbook to be customised to meet your specific needs. All this is available at your fingertips, in a pocket-sized handbook with hard-wearing plastic covers. Written by practising nurses and subject experts, the Oxford Handbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing is a unique and invaluable companion to practising and student nurses, and to all who need to understand the special issues associated with children's and young people's nursing.

Now for the first time nurses have a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of patients in the mental health setting. The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing gives concise, practical and expert advice on all aspects of this specialised and challenging field. Giving a complete picture of the role of the mental health nurse, the handbook gives a systematic summary of the prevalence, features and nursing management of the major mental disorders. Helping you achieve the best possible results for your patients, the authors offer a wealth of recommendations, guidance and information from their years of experience. Whatever situation you are in, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing will give you the information you need. The handbook covers the vast majority of scenarios you will ever encounter. Major sections cover assessment; care planning; developing, maintaining and ending therapeutic relationships; working in partnership with service users and their carers; and the Mental Health Act. Further topics include recognising, prevention and management of violence; risk assessment; culture and diversity; the essence of care; patient-centred mental health nursing; psychosocial interventions; and medications management. So you can find the information you need without delay, the book is clearly laid out with one topic per page, and written in an easily readable note-based style. Blank pages for writing notes, observations and local protocols allow your handbook to be customised to meet your specific needs. All this is available at your fingertips, in a pocket-sized handbook with hard-wearing plastic covers. Written by practising nurses and subject experts, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing is a unique and invaluable companion to practising and student nurses, and to all who need to understand the special issues associated with mental health nursing.