In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. "Nasty, Brutish, and Long" is a candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare.
Effective Management of Long-Term Care Facilities explores the complex operations of the long-term care facility and offers critical skills to current and future nursing home administrators for delivering quality, cost-effective services. The Second Edition has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to offer a more cohesive presentation of the ...
This book is a response to the need for pedagogical materials in the education of professionals who will provide activity programs and interventions to older adults in a variety of service settings. Foundation information about aging and the elderly is presented in the first two units, as well as a basic introduction to normal aging processes, ...
As the baby-boomer generation ages, nursing home care is likely to become a major social problem. New residents will put huge strains on already short staffing at a time when funding to government-assisted homes (75 per cent of all nursing homes) is lower than ever. Based on her ten years of experience working as a Licensed Practical Nurse in many ...
This textbook outlines subject matter for activity professionals in the long term care setting, who are in training or are already working in the field. Researched and referenced, this text provides a comprehensive understanding of relevant information needed by activity professionals. The first section covers the history of the field, the ageing ...
The editors examine areas where systems for the care of the elderly can be improved, from design to delivery. Specific topics include: enhancement of self, efforts of regulatory and accrediting bodies to improve care, methods for evaluating quality, and implementing holistic approach to care, all with view of improving quality of life.
The family, voluntary or professional caregiver to the Alzheimer's patient can use these activities in the home or care facility. Guidance is given on matching activities to patients' potentials, thereby avoiding stress and frustration of failure and mistakes, reinforcing self-esteem, alertness and satisfaction. Appendices list useful information. ...
This guide to long-term care and care facilities offers families advice on key information. It explains how to choose a facility, what to expect from professional caregivers, paying for care, and other difficult issues, including the right to refuse care.
Discusses important issues to consider when selecting a nursing home, including medical care and treatment, quality of life, costs, and patient rights.
While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is incredibly difficult. This book concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities. Among the topics covered are how to recognize signs ...
Recently widowed, confined to a wheelchair, and placed in an elderly-care facility, Abe Gilman wants no part in any of the activities of the other residents, preferring to live out his life in cynical near-isolation.But among those activities is a collective oral history project that two of the members, Samuel Hersh and Hannah Cohen, are ...
This book provides a solid foundation on which to build expertise, understand the differences and similarities among the many long-term services, how the various segments of long-term care fit together to form an overall system, and the skills needed to succeed in that system.
A comprehensive curriculum of practical methods for long-term care administration. Includes essential forecasting tools compiled and developed by more than 40 leaders in long-term care. Each chapter is followed by case studies, questions, and exercises. Instructor's manual available upon request.
Authored by the American Institute of Architects' Design for Aging Center, "Design for Aging Post Occupancy Evaluations" features well researched post occupancy evaluations for approximately forty senior living facilities previously featured in the "AIA Design for Aging Review". Post occupancy evaluations help determine if the facilities are truly ...
Offering a historical and descriptive account of the role of long term components in providing a continuum of care, Long Term Care Administration can be used as a core text or supplement for a wide range of courses. Written primarily for undergraduates of health and human service administration programs, it is also designed to be helpful to the ...
Assisted living is a vital component of long-term care in the United States. In this volume, care providers, researchers, and decision makers from the private and public sectors examine the intersecting societal forces that are profoundly changing how we offer care and housing for older people who need personal assistance. The contributors examine ...
A practical, effective, and thorough risk management tool, this book helps health professionals address common problem areas in order to avoid litigation. Potential risk topics covered include: injury from physical restraint, resident abuse and neglect, infection control, polypharmacy and medication use, falls, and much more. The volume also ...
'I was impressed with the accessibility of the book, offering a guided tour through the history, context and purposes of reminiscence therapy, the range of applications from promoting social and emotional stimulation to reminiscence as psychotherapy. It also provides a brief overview of its theoretical underpinnings...As a book for health ...
Focuses on provision of safe and competent care in long-term, alliterative, or assistive care facilities. Sixteen general systems with 131 related procedures and treatments are included. Features information on definition, assessment, nursing diagnoses, interventions, and problem-solving actions for each skill. Procedures and treatments are ...
Contributors: Kathy Boling, Jaikishan R. Desai, Deborah T. Gold, Lisa Gwyther, Lorraine G. Hiatt, Nancy L. Mace, Laura J. Mathew, Nancy K. Orr-Rainey, Lynn Ritter, Philip D. Sloane, William D. Weissert
Long term care and retirement housing are fast growing industries. As well as the demographic impact of the growing number of elderly people needing care today, baby boomers are increasingly conscious of care issues as they confront the ageing of their parents and also think about their own future.
Nursing homes are rich repositories of data, yet are underutilized for controlled research studies. This book is a hands-on guide to conducting long-term care research in both nursing homes and home care settings. It offers an overview of possible research in the field, along with practical information on how to gain access to and work with ...
Oregon is a recognized leader in home and community-based care and has more than 20 years of experience in moving long-term care clients from institutional settings to home and community-based settings. In 2002, 82 per cent of Oregon's Medicaid long-term care clients were served in the community. Additionally, Oregon was the only state in the ...
As our understanding of aging and Alzheimer's, and the cultural changes related to these phenomena, grows so do the implications for interior design. This book focuses on recent innovations in care environments for the aging with a resource dedicated to this topic. This comprehensive book features: coverage of the emerging building types of adult ...
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