What Do I Do?

How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder, Revised and Illustrated Edition

Katherine Karr, Jess Karr (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

142 Seiten

1985
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-86656-398-7 (ISBN)

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Help families of institutionalized elders with this compassionate and practical manual.

Katherine Karr

Contents
Introduction

How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Physical Level
Checkpoint: Clothing Needs and Clothing Care
Checkpoint: Skin Care
Checkpoint: Other Physical Considerations
Checkpoint: Teeth and Denture Care
Checkpoint: Eye Care
Checkpoint: Ear Care
Checkpoint: Hair Grooming and Cosmetology Needs
Checkpoint: Nails-Manicuring and Pedicuring
Checkpoint: Bedsores
Checkpoint: Monitoring Medications
Checkpoint: Dietary Awareness
Checkpoint: Special Feeding Considerations
Checkpoint: Restorative Therapy
How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Emotional Level
Checkpoint: Understanding Feelings and Developing Empathy Skills
Checkpoint: Using Touch to Communicate Care
Checkpoint: Overcoming Discounting Behaviors
Checkpoint: Patronizing Behaviors
Checkpoint: The Role of Music in Caring
Checkpoint: Special Seasonal Considerations
How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Mental Level
Checkpoint: Differentiating Between “Diversionary
Activities” and Those Which Encourage Wholistic
Creative Growth
Checkpoint: Personalizing Activities
Checkpoint: Reality Orientation
Checkpoint: Remotivational Therapy
Checkpoint: Resident Councils
Checkpoint: Family & Friends Councils
How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Spiritual Level
Checkpoint: Special Times for Spiritual Life
Checkpoint: Visits From Church Members, Ministers.
Priests?
Checkpoint: Preparing for Death
IN CONCLUSION
Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1985
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
ISBN-10	0-86656-398-9 / 0866563989
ISBN-13	978-0-86656-398-7 / 9780866563987
Zustand	Neuware