| Description |
xv, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Caring Decisions -- When Someone You Love Goes into Care -- Becoming a Caregiver -- Becoming "the Family Member" of Someone in Care -- Alastair -- Deciding about Care -- How to Talk about Care -- Choosing the Right Time -- Stress -- When a Parent Chooses to Live at Risk -- 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 -- Keep Your Relative Involved -- Mary -- Guilt, Loss, and Grief -- What Is Guilt? -- Conflicts that Give Rise to Guilt -- Families and Guilt -- Not All Relationships Were Ideal -- Guilt and Dementia -- Dealing with Guilt -- Letting Go -- Grief and Loss -- Handling Grief -- Marjorie -- The Nursing Home -- About Nursing Homes -- Where to Start Finding a Nursing Home -- Keeping Your Relative at Home -- Types and Levels of Care -- Applying for Care -- About Good Care and Good Caring -- On Abuse -- Specialized Dementia Care Units -- Costs -- Nursing Homes and Legal Responsibility -- Mildred -- Viewing the Home -- Staffing -- Programming -- Policies -- Dining -- Physical Plant -- Surveys and Accreditation -- John, Joyce -- Staff Roles: Who Does What? -- Administrator -- Personal Care -- Nursing -- Dietitian and Food Services -- Social Worker -- Recreation -- Rehabilitation -- Housekeeping / Building Maintenance -- Pharmacy -- Physicians -- Other Staff Members -- Mabel -- The Nursing Home System -- How the System Works. |
| Summary |
In assisting their loved ones through the transition to life in a nursing home, one of the greatest obstacles families face is a dearth of practical information and sympathetic experience. This book will help fill the gap for family members and their infirm relatives, as well as for social workers and family therapists. It will also be a valuable tool for nursing home administrators and care staff. Focusing on the psychological, emotional, and social aspects of that process, Nursing Homes: The Family's Journey gives family members important practical advice and emotional support, and it explains the intricacies of care and nursing homes. Peter S. Silin approaches his subject with compassion and sensitivity, guiding readers through the entire process. Section one helps caregivers cope with difficult decisions and deal with the emotional issues that arise. Section two describes nursing homes and how they work, and it outlines how to choose a home. Section three explains how to prepare for the day a relative moves into a nursing home and suggests ways to help the resident settle in. The fourth section focuses on the family member's role in solving problems, obtaining quality care, and visiting, and it offers advice about how to deal with death and dying. After each chapter are real-life vignettes written by caregivers which help validate and support the reader. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Nursing home care.
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Nursing home residents -- Family relationships.
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Older people -- Nursing home care -- Psychological aspects.
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Older people -- Nursing home care -- Social aspects.
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Health Services for the Aged. (DNLM)D006299
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Nursing Homes. (DNLM)D009735
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Caregivers. (DNLM)D017028
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Long-Term Care -- psychology.
(DNLM)D008134Q000523
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Nursing home patients -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01041930
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Work. (DNLM)D020496
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Silin, Peter S., 1954- Nursing homes. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 (OCoLC)665221422 |
| ISBN |
0801866243 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780801866241 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0801866251 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780801866258 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0672321416 |
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9780672321412 |
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