Home health care provider : a guide to essential skills / / Emily Prieto

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827248603321
• Autore: Prieto Emily
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-81316-8; 9786611813161; 0-8261-2853-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.14
• Soggetti: Home care services; Older people - Care
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Attitudes of aging -- Aging at home -- The companion home care provider -- Interpersonal skills and communications -- Common conditions and diseases of the aging body -- The terminally ill client -- Caring for couples -- About activities -- Planning and preparing meals -- Home safety and household management -- Legal authority and money matters -- Planning for placement.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond standard nurses' aide training manuals, the book focuses on the psycho-social needs of home care recipients, stressing the need to