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A unique worship resource that includes practical suggestions for visiting and offering spiritual support to those with dementia

Often dementia hides the person from us, but never from God. "We have accounts of people with dementia coming to faith on hearing the gospel," says Louise. "God never gives up, and neither should we. Visiting and supporting, ministering and caring is not about what it does for us, but what it means to the person with dementia."

This practical book explains why Christians are called to care spiritually for people who may not be able to show their...

Are You in a Caregiving Relationship and Don't Know It? Finding a Balance of Loving and Caring by Wendy Packer and Linda J. Parker is a fresh and surprising look at the roles of caregivers and care receivers. Although we often don't realize it, every relationship, from casual to lifelong committed, is a caregiving and care receiving exchange. You won't read many pages into this thoughtful book before you will know the answer to the question the title poses, "Yes, you are in a caregiving relationship... dozens of them " You will always be in caregiving and care receiving relationships,...

Allen's Nursing Home Federal Requirements, now updated and revised in a user-friendly Eighth Edition, is a vital nursing home administration text. Without exaggeration, it can be called the bible of federal nursing home requirements.

-Christopher Cherney, San Jose State University
Darlene Yee-Melichar, Professor of Gerontology, San Francisco State University
Educational Gerontology

The book] lists all the federal requirements that are evaluated by state surveyors during the annual survey visit to nursing homes and for complaint visits. The...

-This manual, the first of its kind focused on district nursing, provides the means to build competence and confidence in nurses new to the community, or developing their skills. The comprehensive and evidence-based content provides essential information for competence in key areas of district nursing.-
--From the Foreword, by Rosemary Cook CBE, Hon D Lett, MSc, PG Dip, RGN Director, The Queen's Nursing Institute

Clinical skills are a fundamental aspect of district nursing care. The District Nursing Manual of Clinical Procedures is a practical, evidence-based...

Practical, day-to-day advice on dementia, based on a true story

Dementia affects 35 million people worldwide. Until recently, dementia sufferers were considered lost people in a living body. But thanks to a better understanding of how the brain works and how it is affected by dementia, experts and caregivers have developed a new method of caring that can help maintain the individual's personhood.

Frank and Linda's story powerfully depicts this new approach to caregiving. Through a narrative that starts with the first, early signs, it focuses on the three important aspects of...

Hospice Palliative Care in Nepal is written in clear easy to understand language, with the Nepal Caregivers in mind. It guides you through best practices for providing care for the dying, adapting caregiving practices and includes caregiving stories from Nepal to meet the unique culture and expectations of Nepali society. Practical ways for managing common physical symptoms of the dying are explained, including: causes of common symptoms, palliative (medical) measures for treating symptoms, and comfort measures. Using this book will teach you about psychosocial issues that affect dying people...

With a "retirement boom" to continue for the next twenty years, planning for those retirement years is critically important; and there may be no greater threat to a comfortable retirement than the need for Long-Term Care. Nearly 70% of Americans over age 65 will need some form of Long-Term Care as they age, yet studies show that fewer than 10% of Americans have completed any Long-Term Care Planning whatsoever. You need to include Long-Term Care into any retirement plans that you have But what is Long-Term Care? Do I need it? How do I find the right solution? The goal of this book is to help...

Well child care is designed to promote optimal health status for children, including school and life success. This preventive care includes anticipatory guidance; continuity of care; assessment of growth and development; screening procedures for vision, hearing, dental, and cognitive development; and immunizations. Anticipatory guidance provides parental health education, counseling, and reassurance. The vast majority of Medicaid-insured children receive fewer than the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended number of well child visits in the preschool years, and a disproportionate...

Well child care is designed to promote optimal health status for children, including school and life success. This preventive care includes anticipatory guidance; continuity of care; assessment of growth and development; screening procedures for vision, hearing, dental, and cognitive development; and immunizations. Anticipatory guidance provides parental health education, counseling, and reassurance. The vast majority of Medicaid-insured children receive fewer than the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended number of well child visits in the preschool years, and a disproportionate...

"It does not matter the quality of products you have, what matters is if you have clients" Jane John-Nwankwo RN, MSN

Die meisten Menschen in Deutschland sterben in Institutionen wie Krankenhausern oder Pflegeheimen, wo die Personalsituation oft angespannt ist. Damit Patienten und Bewohner in Wurde und Geborgenheit ihr Lebensende erleben konnen, unterstutzen zahlreiche ehrenamtliche Sterbebegleiter/-innen die hauptamtlich Tatigen. Die Ehrenamtlichen bringen durch ihre Zeit, Zuwendung, Aufmerksamkeit, Ruhe, Gelassenheit und Offenheit Erleichterung in den Alltag und speziell in die Situation Sterbender.Dieses Handbuch bereitet auf die ehrenamtliche Sterbebegleitung professionell vor. Dabei steht die...

Long Term Care Customer Service is designed to accelerate your staff's skills and your resident's satisfaction. Your facility's benefits include: -A systematic and simple method for improving customer service skills -Learning sessions as short as 15 minutes -Practical skills your front line can apply immediately to improve how staff work with each other and with your residents -Reduced risk of lawsuit -Improved referrals to your facility -Increased QIS and Standard Survey scores "I have been GUSHING about your training to my peers. I enjoy the simplicity of it and the fact that it utilizes...

Long Term Care Customer Service is designed to accelerate your skills and your resident's satisfaction. This course includes: -A systematic and simple method for improving customer service skills -Learning sessions as short as 15 minutes -Practical skills you can apply immediately to improve how you work with your colleagues and your residents "I have been GUSHING about your training to my peers. I enjoy the simplicity of it and the fact that it utilizes life skills not everyone seems to pick up along the way. I think it should be implemented at facilities everywhere." Jamie Reynolds, LPN...

Caregivers and Clients, Therapeutic Home Arts & Recreation Guide is a crash course for Home Health Aids, Caregivers and Family. The book is a guide to recreation and arts at home for Seniors, Alzheimer's and Dementia clients, offering ideas for small projects, such as beauty and health care, nature, and food preparation. It offers interesting and innovative ideas that are stimulating and fun to do. The book is very visual with lots of colorful pictures making it easy to understand even if English is your second language. Using "Caregivers" will make any day a special day for both you and your...

Are you caring for, or intending to care, for an elderly friend or relative and would like to make their life at home a viable and worthwhile alternative to residential care? Perhaps the prospect of caring seems overwhelming and you feel the need for some emotional or physical support. Then this book has been written for you. My book is not aimed at care workers who are trained to care, but at unpaid carers who are caring out of a sense of compassion, family loyalty or out of love. Caring For An Elderly Person At Home is not a textbook, but a friendly guide based on my own experiences of...

Twenty-one people of different ages have one thing in common; they're within six months of their deaths. They've endured the battle of the medical system as they sought cures for their illnesses, and are now settling in to die. Some reconcile, some don't. Some are gracious, some not. As Nina Angela McKissock, a highly experienced hospice nurse, goes from home to home and within the residential hospice, she shares her journey of deep joy, humorous events, precious stories, and heartbreaking love. Free of religiosity, dogma, or fear, From Sun to Sun brings readers into McKissock's...

This workbook assists nurses and caregivers in Nepal develop their hospice palliative care skills. It is a companion to the Hospice Palliative Care in Nepal textbook. Students work alone and in groups to apply theory and integrate new knowledge from the text into short answer questions, role plays, case study analysis and discussions with other students. All these activities will improve the speed that students learn the new content and are able to apply their new skills in work situations.

Music is important to us as a species, and it can be particularly important to people with dementia. Singing in a group can improve a person's mood, recall, self-esteem and overall quality of life. Whether you're a trained musician or someone who has no training but can hold a tune (and that is almost everyone), this book will give you guidance on every stage of setting up a singing group for people with dementia: choosing songs, structuring sessions, choosing and setting up a venue, training volunteers, finding funding, keeping participants safe and ensuring that everyone has a good time.

The importance of community health workers is increasingly recognized within many of today s most high-profile global health programs, including campaigns focused on specific diseases and broader efforts to strengthen health systems and achieve universal health care. Based on ethnographic work with Ethiopian women and men who provided home-based care in Addis Ababa during the early roll-out of antiretroviral therapies, this book explores what it actually means to become a community health worker in today s global health industry.

Drawing on the author s interviews with community...