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This book fosters quality care to home care recipients and 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 home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond nurses' aide training manuals, the book also focuses on psycho-social needs of home care recipients. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills that benefit recipient and caregiver, creating a systematic, easy-to-follow plan for improving quality of life.
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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 maintain the house as a home and sustaining the recipient's way of life throughout caregiving situations. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills that benefit recipient and caregiver, creating a systematic, easy-to-follow plan for delivering quality service and maintaining, or improving, quality of life.;
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Foreword Todd Gabel Gabel, Todd
Ch. 1 Attitudes of Aging 1
Ch. 2 Aging at Home 11
Ch. 3 The Companion Home Care Provider 31
Ch. 4 Interpersonal Skills and Communications 51
Ch. 5 Common Conditions and Diseases of the Aging Body 77
Ch. 6 The Terminally Ill Client 117
Ch. 7 Caring for Couples 125
Ch. 8 About Activities 131
Ch. 9 Planning and Preparing Meals 163
Ch. 10 Home Safety and Household Management 183
Ch. 11 Legal Authority and Money Matters 215
Ch. 12 Planning for Placement 223
References 237
Index 239
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This book fosters quality care to home care recipients and 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 home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond nurses' aide training manuals, the book also focuses on psycho-social needs of home care recipients. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills ...