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No Place Like Home?by Jennifer A. Parks
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 23.95"No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice to propose a way to reform home care to reduce its exploitative qualities while assuring that it is more than 'bed and body' work." -- Martha B. Holstein, Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois, Chicago and co-editor, Ethics and Community Based Elder Care "For a scathing... more...
American Medical Association by American Medical Association
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 15.95At some time, most families will need to provide home care for an aging family member who is ill or disabled. While home caregiving provides many benefits, it takes careful planning, support, and patience. The American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving provides the information you need to take the best possible care of an elderly, ill, or disabled person in a home setting. Written by experts from the American Medical Association, the book explains such essentials as how to: * Plan and arrange a room to adapt to a loved one's needs * Give medications, maintain hygiene, monitor symptoms, deal with incontinence, provide emotional support, and relieve boredom * Choose a home healthcare provider * Pay for home healthcare, including Medicare... more...
The Personal Care Attendant Guideby Katie Rodriquez Banister
Demos Medical Publishing 2007; US$ 16.95This unique book will equip people with disabilities, as well as those managing caregivers for family members, with the skills to successfully find, interview, hire, train, and supervise their personal attendants. more...
Brücken zwischen dir und mir: Betreuung zu Hause erleben (German Edition)by Christine Illetschko; Peter F. Kupfer
Springer 2007; US$ 29.95Eine Anerkennung für alle Personen, die im Dienst für pflegebedürftige Menschen beschäftigt sind. Die Autorin ist seit zehn Jahren in diesem Bereich tätig und erzählt hier vom Alltag der Menschen, die in der Hauskrankenpflege arbeiten. Von Menschen, deren Arbeit häufig schwer, manchmal erheiternd und mitunter traurig ist, die sie aber stets mit Herz und Verantwortung wahrnehmen. Die Autorin erzählt auch von den privaten Freuden und Sorgen Pflegender. All jene, die in diesem Beruf arbeiten, werden sich in der einen oder anderen Anekdote wieder finden. Alle anderen Leser erhalten einen lebendigen Einblick mit stimmungsvollen Fotos und Gedichten. more...
Current Practices in High-Tech Home Careby Lenard Kaye; Joan Davitt
Springer Publishing Company 1999; US$ 55.00This book offers convenient access to information about the benefits, drawbacks and challenges of importing high-technology medical care into the home care programs. It is both a descriptive report of research-based observations, and an interpretive analysis of major issues and policies in the delivery of technology-enhanced care. The authors bring to the forefront evidence-based current home care practices, such as ventilator therapy and artificial nutrition infusion pumps, and develop them through complete discussions of legal, ethical and administrative issues they entail. Agency administrators as well as in-home direct service providers like nurses and social workers, will find essential information on a critical home care delivery issue... more...
Home Health Care Providerby Emily Prieto
Springer Publishing Company 2008; US$ 35.00This 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... more...
Home Care in Europeby R. Tarricone; A.D. Tsouros
World Health Organization 2008; US$ 10.00Demographic, epidemiological, social and cultural trends in European countries are changing the traditional patterns of care. The next decades will see rising numbers of care-dependent older people and noncommunicable diseases as the leading cause of chronic illness and disability. Further, urbanization and the break-up of the traditional large family group will lead to gaps in the care of older or disabled family members. These changes in needs and social structure require a different approach to policy and services in the health and social sectors; a disease-oriented approach alone is no longer appropriate. Home care could be an answer to these issues: a sustainable approach to prevent the need for unnecessary acute or long-term institutionalization... more...
Nursing and Family Caregivingby Anne Neufeld; Margaret Harrison
Springer Publishing Company 2009; US$ 50.00[T]his text is a truly amazing microanalytic compendium of social support strategies in different family configurations, in different context and ethnic groups, and filling different types of needs. -- Janice M. Morse, RN, PhD, FAAN. University of Alberta (From the Foreword). This book serves as an authoritative reference for health care practitioners and researchers concerned with mobilizing support for individuals caring for a disabled adult or child family member. The authors integrate numerous types of research to provide a comprehensive compendium of best practices for social support within vulnerable populations. This book provides a wealth of insight into the experience of family caregivers and describes the importance of support. Nurses,... more...
Klinische Behandlungspfadeby Mirjam Pföhler
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2010; US$ 39.67Hauptbeschreibung Die finanziellen und qualitativen Herausforderungen im deutschen Krankenhaussektor, ausgelöst durch den wachsenden Kostendruck, den zunehmenden Wettbewerb sowie die steigenden Patientenansprüche, verlangen ein intensiveres Zusammenspiel von Medizin und Ökonomie, als es die Vergangenheit zeigte. Die vorliegende Arbeit legt dar, wie klinische Behandlungspfade zu dieser geforderten Verknüpfung beitragen und geht insbesondere auf ihre Implementierung ein. Mit Hilfe eines theoretischen Bezugsrahmens aus Erfolgsfaktorenforschung und Ressourcenansatz gelingt es ihr - aus theoretischer und empirischer Perspektive - fünf Erfolgsfaktoren der Implementierung zu identifizieren und unter ressourcenallokativen Gesichtspunkten zu beleuchten more...
Clinical Case Studies in Home Health Careby Leslie Neal-Boylan
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 59.99Home health care is an important aspect of community health and a growing area of healthcare services. Clinical Case Studies in Home Health Care uses a case-based approach to provide home health care professionals, educators, and students with a useful tool for thoughtful, holistic care. The book begins with a thorough and accessible introduction to the principles of home health care, including a discussion of supporting theoretical frameworks and information on managing complexities, transitioning patients to home care, and preparation for the home visit. Subsequent sections are comprised entirely of case studies organized by body system. Though cases are diverse in content, each is presented in a consistent manner, promoting a logical... more...









