What Do I Do?: How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder, Revised and Illustrated Edition by Katherine Karr
Help families of institutionalized elders with this compassionate and practical manual.
What Do I Do?
Summary
Help families of institutionalized elders with this compassionate and practical manual.
What Do I Do? Summary
About Katherine Karr
Katherine Karr
Table of Contents
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
Additional information
NPB9780866563987
9780866563987
0866563989
What Do I Do?: How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder, Revised and Illustrated Edition by Katherine Karr
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Inc
1985-01-01
142
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