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Nursing Homes and Assisted Living : The Family's Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care /
Overview: Almost a decade ago, Peter S. Silin wrote Nursing Homes: The Family's Journey to provide family members with practical advice and emotional support. This successor volume incorporates the new and sometimes baffling world of assisted living. Nursing Homes and Assisted Living focuses on...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, MD :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1:
- Caring Decisions:
- When someone you love goes into care
- Becoming a caregiver
- Becoming the "family member" of someone in care
- Learning the role of the family member
- Types and levels of care
- Other considerations
- Alastair
- Deciding about care
- How to talk about care
- Choosing the right time
- Stress and burnout
- When a parent chooses to live at risk
- Making the decision
- Your legal right to make decisions for your relative: a warning
- Advance directives and medical decisions
- Lydia Jean
- Family decision making
- Family relationships and care decisions
- How to make family decisions
- Family meetings
- Keep your relative involved
- Mary
- Guilt, loss, and grief
- What is guilt?
- Conflicts that give rise to guilt
- Families and guilt
- Adult children
- Guilt, culture, and society today
- When guilt has other purposes in your life
- Not all relationships were ideal
- Guilt and dementia
- Dealing with guilt
- Letting go
- Grief and loss
- Handling grief
- Marjorie
- Part 2:
- Residence:
- About nursing homes and assisted living facilities
- Keeping your relative at home
- Where to start finding a nursing home or assisted living facility
- Applying for seniors housing
- About good care and good caring
- Models of care
- On abuse
- Specialized dementia care units
- Costs
- Nursing homes and legal responsibility
- Mildred
- Viewing the residence
- Staffing
- Programming
- Policies
- Dining
- Physical plant
- Surveys and accreditation
- John and Joyce
- Staff roles: who does what?
- Receptionist
- Administrator
- Personal care: nurse's aides
- Nurses
- Dietitian and food services staff
- Social worker
- Recreation therapists
- Rehabilitation staff
- Housekeepers/building maintenance staff
- Pharmacist
- Physicians
- Other staff members
- Mable
- Nursing home and assisted living systems
- How the system works
- Typical day
- Cyrus
- Moving in and settling in
- Preparations for moving day
- How to prepare your relative
- Get to know the home in advance
- Equipment
- Valuables
- -Clothing and laundry
- Plan ahead for moving day
- Plan to take care of yourself
- Betty
- Moving day
- Stay calm
- If your relative refuses to go
- Walking through the door
- When you first arrive
- Joan
- Settling in
- Resident adjustment
- Changes and differences in behavior
- Dementia and behavior
- Sex and relationships in nursing homes and assisted living
- On staying healthy
- Your emotional adjustment
- Gap in your life
- Phases of adjustment
- Acceptance
- New relationships
- Bill
- Being the family member of someone in care
- Care and care planning
- Basic standards of care
- How care is organized
- Care conferences
- Charts
- Medication and care planning
- Medication and pain control
- Restraints
- Toileting and incontinence
- Falls
- Pressure sores
- Depression
- Alcohol, drugs, and other addictions
- Roommates
- Louise
- Communication and problem solving
- Working the system
- Communication
- Gaps in the system
- When things go missing
- Your role
- Making complaints
- Throwing bouquets
- Alvin (part 1)
- Visiting
- How often to visit
- Visiting someone who has dementia
- Going out and going home
- Ending a visit
- Companions
- Few more words about sex
- Jane
- Out-of-town caregivers
- Professional geriatric care managers
- Lloyd
- Making a home better
- Include the resident in the change
- Individual actions
- Working with other families
- Working the system
- Working with government
- Ann
- Difficult decisions at the end of life
- Living and dying
- Talking about death
- Facing feelings about dying and death
- Decisions about dying and death
- Hospice and palliative care
- Younger people and death
- What occurs during the dying process
- After death
- Saying good-bye to the home
- Donald
- Alvin (part 2)
- Appendix 1: Accessing care in Canada
- Appendix 2: Questionnaires
- Appendix 3: Some common medical abbreviations
- Resources
- Index.