The nursing assistant has a special and vital role in nursing
home care. Providing continuous and close relationships with the
nursing home residents, the assistance is challenged daily to solve
the numerous problems that arise in working with the elderly. It is
frequently the assistant who must find ways to help when residents
refuse to get up, become incontinent, cannot find the dining room,
cannot sleep, grieve over their families' failure to visit, argue
with other residents, make excessive demands for personal care,
imagine illnesses and demons, and fear death.
This book is designed to help the nursing assistant and other
elder care providers develop and refine the needed understanding of
the elderly and how to work with them. In the everyday context of
the nursing home and its residents, it identifies categories of
helping opportunities, presents over 100 case studies to illustrate
them, and suggests techniques that nursing assistants may use to
make the most of these opportunities. The vivid, dramatic, and
realistic cases are drawn from extensive field observations of
nursing home residents and the work of nursing assistants, as well
as from many in-depth interviews. An indispensable training and
discussion guide for nursing assistants; for nurses, social
workers, and other staff members of nursing homes who train and
supervise nursing assistants; and for those who design and manage
elderly care programs. It is also an essential resource for
sociologists, psychologists, and social workers who specialize in
aging or who teach courses in gerontology.
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