Residential care Books

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,...

E-health technologies will play an increasingly important role in the coming years, as more and more older people will require medical care and support. Due to the prevalent demographic changes and the continuously decreasing number of nursing staff and...

This report shares insights on capacity building for long-term care in six countries at different stages of population aging: Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, and Viet Nam.It explores these countries' long-term care systems and their...

This Log Book is perfect for new moms, dads and nannies.Our journal has been designed to look simple and that will help you keep all of your baby log information in one handy and easy-to-use book.Inside you will find:✔ Feedings (time, food, and amount)✔...

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be 'at...

We all will remember how we felt when we were small children waiting on Santa ... and how the anticipation would grow as Christmas day approached. That truly was such a special feeling, which you now can recreate for that someone special by paging trough...

This Caregiver Log notebook is a perfect way to track & write to your client's and patients' daily care. Each page includes space for:Name & DateToiletingTimes Up In The NightMeals Schedule, Snacks, DrinksActivities AppointmentsHealth...

The goal of the fourth edition of this book is to help hospice clinicians, team members, and managers meet numerous quality, coverage, and reimbursement standards and requirements for success in daily practice, operations, and documentation. All these...

This book provides a comprehensive guide for understanding and addressing the challenges associated with aging and caregiving. It begins by examining the physical, cognitive, emotional, and psychological changes that occur with aging, as well as the...

This Log Book is perfect for new moms, dads and nannies.Our journal has been designed to look simple and that will help you keep all of your baby log information in one handy and easy-to-use book.Inside you will find:✔ Feedings (time, food, and amount)✔...

Recruiting and retaining a caring workforce to keep pace with the needs of an ageing society is one of the greatest challenges we face. At the same time, traditional methods of finding suitable care staff are delivering diminishing returns.This fully...

The year was 2020. The world had experienced an epic shutdown. Millions were getting sick from this dreadful virus and even worse, millions more were dying. Healthcare workers were stressed to unimaginative limits. What happens when those charged with...

This textbook is an essential resource for life care planners in understanding and assessing a range of medical disabilities, life care planning as a health care service delivery practice, certification under the International Commission on Health Care...

Staff Nurse Interview Questions and Answers" is a comprehensive guide designed to help aspiring nurses prepare for job interviews and succeed in landing their dream nursing position. Written by experienced nursing professionals, this book covers a wide...

Lorsque vous devez surveiller de près les signes vitaux tels que la pression artérielle, la glycémie, le rythme cardiaque, la température, le poids ou le niveau d'oxygène, le carnet de signes vitaux est l'endroit idéal pour le faire.Ce carnet est une...

El primer capítulo de este libro se titula, Así Que Aquí Estoy, En Un Lugar Que Nunca Imaginé. ¡Usted no quisiera encontrase ahí! Muy a menudo, los profesionales de la salud y el público en general se enfrentan con decisiones desgarradoras asociadas con...

This second edition of the text will equip frontline caregivers to respond to the changing needs of any person living with life-limiting illness and their family. You will learn best practice skills for participating fully as a vital member of the health...

This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Tonga. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.The publication explores the need...

Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of...

Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families. There are estimated to be 47 million people with a dementia worldwide, the majority of whom...

This book is all about ways to improve quality of lifestyle in residential aged care. It targets the role of the direct care workers, in particular Recreation Activity Officers (RAOs). Leisure and lifestyle theory and practice is simply...

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...

Karen Cumming and Patricia Milne are sisters who embarked on a daunting journey... one that many of us may go on at some point in our lives. They guided their 98 year old mother, Verna, through Ontario's long-term care system. Unfortunately, few...

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the...

This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Indonesia. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.Contributing to the development...

This workbook, Love, Laughter, & Mayhem In Eldercare Facilities: The Master Key For Dementia Training, is your one-stop-shopping guide for giving your staff the crucial training required to be the most effective and knowledgeable caregivers to residents...

In Stop Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Before It Starts, Debra Savage speaks not only to caregivers and receivers, but also to the families, spouses, and children of nursing home patients. She addresses the growing phenomenon of abuse and neglect in...

Ruthie Rosauer and her sister were abruptly thrust into the world of nursing homes when a hospital social worker gave them less than twenty-four hours to find placement for their elderly mother. Thus began their daunting journey of finding a facility,...

Despite the anticipated “Senior Tsunami” in population emerging across the nation, success in the senior living industry is not guaranteed. In this thought-provoking book, management consultant Jill Johnson discusses the nine market forces...

People coping with dementia, either their own or their relative's, are so shattered that they need help almost at the Lego box level. 'Worshipping with Dementia' gives hard-pressed people a book they can pick up and leaf through for words and Scriptures...

Christina Miles's practical book dives into "Ten Principals" that every certified nursing assistant should practice while working as a caregiving professional. "Intentional Caregiving" is full of easy-to-implement tips, motivating stories, and some...

There has never been a better time to start a business in care.If you are contemplating a business in the care sector, this book is indispensable. Packed with comprehensive information and practical guidance to help you set up your business, navigate the...

What if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop...

Prodigal Father is narrated by Patience Montgomery. She is a woman who had married into an east-coast, Polish-Italianfamily but longs to be reunited with her not-so-traditional west-coast relatives.She misses the siblings who can hardly comprehend the...

The ultimate guide to a successful Care Quality Commission applicationOutstanding is for people who are starting a regulated activity within aesthetics practice or setting up as a new provider in social care.This clear guide will support you with your...

This book examines what causes aging. It describes the influence of aging on the structure and function of each body part, and it explains what impacts the elderly, including health care, diet, exercise, infections, cancer, pills, addictions, sleep, and...

Some of the biggest findings in the subject of nicotine have come from the secretive Nicotine Research Collaborative, which is made up of researchers, doctors, and academics. However, because they were worried about political and professional issues,...

Find balance, peace, and sanity in the midst of caring for your aging parents - discover the secrets to managing the emotional, physical, and financial tolls of being a caregiver.Do you find yourself stretched too thin between caring for your children...

""A Manual of Instruction for Giving Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment"" is a book written by Hartvig Nissen in 1889. This book provides detailed instructions on how to give Swedish movement and massage treatments, which were popular therapeutic...

This book recounts some experiences of young Australians with catastrophic brain injuries, their families and the medical system which they encountered. Whilst most of the events described occurred two to three decades ago they raise questions relevant...