Social Work in Geriatrie Home Health Care: The Blending of Traditional Practice with Cooperative Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780789007476 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 138 str.

Lucille Rosengarten

Opis

Explores how social workers, aides, nurses, administrators, and policy makers can cooperatively work by maintaining appropriate health records in order to keep the elderly living at home. This book discusses ways to organize home health care by use of cooperative strategies in order to assist older individuals in living independent lives at home.

Spis treści

Contents

• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Part I: Hints of a New Kind of Case Management in Traditional Hospital-Based Home Health Care
  
•  Chapter 1. The Dying Marriage Counselor: A Poor Family in Crisis
  
• Chapter 2. The Overwhelmed Attorney: A Wealthy Family in Crisis
  
• Chapter 3. The Eccentric Artist: The Filial Role in Home Care for the Frail Elderly
  
• Chapter 4. Elderly Home Care Clients: Maintaining Purpose in Life
  
• Chapter 5. Caregivers and Their Ill Spouses: Creating a Health-Promoting Group for Elderly Couples in a Hospital Home Care Program
  
• Principles of Health-Promoting Group Formation
  
• Forming the Group
  
• Fitting In
  
• Later Activities
  
• Unfinished Business
  
• Implications and Observations
  
• Part II: Cooperative Home Care in Community-Based Agencies
  
•  Chapter 6. Aspects of Cooperative Home Care for the Elderly in Bologna, Italy
  
• CADIAI
  
• Chapter 7. COHME’s First In-Service on Cooperativism
  
• Situations Taken from Aides’ Problems
  
• Staff Situations in the Office
  
• Replies from Everyone at the General Meeting
  
• Part III: Using Cooperative Strategies--Specialized Training and Supervision of Home Health Aides
  
• Chapter 8. Training Aides to Care for Dementia Patients
  
•  Chapter 9. Training Aides to Work in Cluster Care with the Newly Dependent Elderly
  
•  Dependency
  
• Training Aides to Care for Newly Dependent Elderly
  
• Edited Text of In-Service Program: Residence Director’s Remarks to Home Health Aides
  
• Cluster Care Confidentiality
  
• Compassion
  
• Edited Vignettes: Breaking the Ice and Introducing Techniques
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 10. Developing Trusting Relationships Between White Clients and Black Aides
  
•  Results Obtained from the Videotape
  
•  Symposium Discussion
  
•  Conclusions
  
• Part IV: COHME’S Approach to Geriatric Case Management
  
• Chapter 11. Principles of COHMEs Case Management
  
• Geriatric Case Management
  
• Range of Services Provided by Professional Geriatric Case Managers
  
• Contributors to Case Management
  
• Case Study Illustrating Aspects of Skilled Case Management
  
• Controversies in the Case Management Field
  
• New Directions
  
•  Chapter 12. Teaching the Uses of the COHME One-Sheet
  
•  Presentation
  
• Concluding Thoughts
  
• Index
  
•  Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Lucille Rosengarten