| Description |
346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Becoming a caregiver -- Caregiving challenges -- Understanding family relationships -- Resolving family caregiving issues -- Protecting your own health -- Part II. Knowing what's normal and what's not -- Understanding the physical changes of aging -- Understanding memory and emotional states and changes in aging -- Practicing prevention -- Part III: Providing personal care -- Managing medications -- Providing skin, foot, and wound care -- Managing incontinence -- Providing oral care and assisting with eating/feeding -- Promoting safe mobility -- Providing emotional care -- Part IV: Getting help -- Navigating community services -- Finding home health care services -- Making the nursing facility decision -- Coping when your loved one dies. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Home care -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Caregivers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Caregivers -- psychology.
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Home Nursing.
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Aged.
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| Added Author |
Tappen, Ruth M.
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| ISBN |
1878812505 |
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9781878812506 |
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