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Nursing Home Care
States and explains the principles underpinning safe, personalized, and dignified nursing home practice using an integrated, cooperative approach. This title reflects the International Association for Geriatrics and Gerontology's conviction that nursing home practice is an interdisciplinary endeavor that requires a sound theoretical, scientific, and values base in addition to clinical expertise. Mindful of the influences of different culture and context, the premise of this text is that there is a shared and common knowledge base to guide nursing home practice and approaches to caring that are universal. --From publisher description.
The Privatization of Care
Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising practices that treat residents, families and staff with dignity and respect in ways that can also bring joy. While we did find ideas worth sharing, we also saw a disturbing trend toward privatization. Privatization is the process of moving away not only from public delivery and public payment for health services but also from a commitment to shared responsibility, democratic decision-making, and th...
End of Life in Care Homes
In our society, the overwhelming majority of people die in later life. They typically die slowly of chronic diseases, with multiple co-existing problems over long periods of time. They spend the majority of their final years at home, but many will die in hospitals or care homes. This book explores the possibilities for improving the care of older people dying in residential care and nursing homes. It argues that there are aspects of palliative care that, given the right circumstances, are transferable to dying people in settings that are not domestic or hospice based. End of Life in Care Homes describes what happens in nursing and residential care homes when a resident is dying, how carers cope, and the practical, health and emotional challenges that carers face on top of their day-to-day work. Based on detailed research from both the UK and US, the book shows how the situation can be improved.
Nursing in Care Homes
Nursing in Care Homes is a practical guide for nurses of all levels working in care homes. It is directly relevant to everyday practice and covers clinical issues such as continence care, wound care, infection control, and nutrition, as well as information on a wide range of issues including legal requirements, care home standards, and liasing with social and health care services. The revised and updated second edition includes new chapters on maximising abilities, risk management, stroke, and diabetes and calls upon the recommendations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the requirements of the Care Standards Act (2002). Concise and easy to follow, Nursing in Care Homes is an essential guide to skilled professional care for all nurses in care homes. It will also be invaluable to nursing students undertaking their placements in care homes.
Palliative and Nursing Home Care
This book examines the policies, challenges, and quality of life issues in palliative care and nursing home care facilities. Some topics discussed in this compilation include: identifying the palliative care needs of home-based dementia patients and their caregivers; the functions of sexuality in older adults living in nursing homes and increasing awareness of staff and family members to this issue; haematology and non-oncological respiratory patients in palliative care; the changing role of the licensed practical nurse in nursing home care; obese nursing residents and their special considerations; gynaecological cancer and palliative cancer care; and, neonatal palliative care.
Arrangements for Ensuring the Quality of Care in Homes for Older People
At March 2009, around 9,500 older people had been placed by Health and Social Care Trusts in 490 registered residential care and nursing homes. Care within these homes costs over £280 million each year. All residential care and nursing homes for older people must register with the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA), comply with relevant statutory regulations, and are expected to comply with a list of minimum standards developed by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. Over the three year period 2006-07 to 2008-09, 45 'failure to comply' notices and accompanying quality improvement plans and 10 notices 'imposing additional conditions of registration' w...
Dementia in Nursing Homes
Written by leading international experts, this book discusses the latest advances in the field of dementia in nursing homes. The topics and findings covered are based on their survey and on a scientific literature review. Dementia is spreading worldwide, placing a growing burden on healthcare systems and caregivers, as well as those affected. With increasing and complex care needs, nursing home admission is often necessary. Globally, over half of nursing home residents suffer from dementia. The book provides essential information on the most important issues in dementia in nursing homes today, including meaningful activities, patient-/person-centered care, psychosocial interventions, challen...
An Insider's Guide to Better Nursing Home Care
"Is musing home care in your parent's future? Is an elderly relative currently living in a long-term-care facility? If you are involved with someone in nursing home care, then An Insider's Guide to Better Nursing Home Care is a must read. It's your guide to learning vital facts about the rights of nursing home residents, and it will show you how to be a more involved advocate in the care of your loved one." "Licensed practical nurse and attorney Donna M. Reed writes in a straightforward yet compassionate way about nursing home care: how it works, where it fails, and how it can be improved. Based on her ten years of experience working as a nurse in many care facilities, Reed shares her insider knowledge to help families ensure that their loved ones receive the best care possible." "Reed's firsthand knowledge of nursing home care and her in-depth understanding of the legal requirements that protect residents offer invaluable information to readers concerned about the well-being of a loved one in a skilled-care facility. Some of the truths may be difficult to read, but that makes them all the more important to learn."--BOOK JACKET.
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