Through firsthand accounts and research, Grief Education for
Caregivers of the Elderly focuses on the education, training, and
support of individuals who care for the elderly. This book provides
caregivers with methods to cope with grief and loss and will help
educators design programs that meet the needs of their consumers:
the elderly and their families, friends, and service providers.
From Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly, you'll learn
how to cope with the stress and emotions of caregiving and improve
the quality of services to your patients. With an emphasis on
caregivers of the institutionalized elderly and the special
services provided by clergy, chaplains, and pastoral counselors,
Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly offers the caregiver
or educator several model workshops focusing on grief, loss, and
bereavement care. Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly
contains proven methods and strategies that will sharpen and
enhance your caregiving skills, including: focusing on the
emotional responses and phases of dying, including denial, anger,
and acceptance, to help patients deal with death considering
physical and administrative atmosphere and your elderly population
when setting goals and designing workshops to provide optimal
patient/resident care discussing the themes of grief and loss,
stress management, handling change, and promoting self-care for
caregivers in workshops and through self-evaluations developing
workshops that open with grief history surveys and attitude
checklists, discuss normative development and issues of old age,
and have themes based on the biological, psychosocial, and
spiritual needs of the elderly person providing caregivers with an
opportunity to practice what they have learned through case
studies, simulated role play, open discussions, and care plan
designing thinking about your own mortality and learning about your
feelings and ideas of growing old Utilized at a psychiatric nursing
home facility of New Hampshire Hospital, the workshop exercises in
Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly have allowed
caregivers to express personal feelings; talk about beliefs and
experiences; learn about biological, psychosocial, and spiritual
processes of grief and phases of bereavement; and apply these
understandings and insights into typical caregiving situations.
Grief Education for the Caregivers of the Elderly gives you the
framework for such a program, using vignettes, composite case
material, poetry, and a holistic approach to health care to
emphasize the importance of your emotional health and enhanced care
of the elderly.
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