Caring for Older Adults Pack

 

The Caring for Older Adults Pack includes:

Caregiver’s Encyclopedia: A Compassionate Guide to Caring for Older Adults – Caregivers hold the key to the health, well-being, and happiness of their aging relatives, partners, or friends. The Caregiver’s Encyclopedia provides you with all of the information you need to take the best care of your loved one’from making major medical decisions to making sure you don’t burn out. Written by Muriel R. Gillick, MD, a geriatrician with more than 30 years’ experience caring for older people, this book highlights the importance of understanding your friend’s or family member’s overall health. With compassion and expertise, this book will help you “”think like a doctor.”” The content:

• Helps you navigate the health-care system
• Shares important information about treating basic geriatric syndromes, including delirium, dementia, and falls
• Teaches you about preventive care options
• Enables you to manage medical decisions related to both acute and chronic conditions
• Discusses what Medicare covers and what it doesn’t
• Guides you through different approaches to care
• Weighs the risks and benefits of hospital vs. home, nursing home, or hospice care
• Provides a detailed list of medical supplies that you might want to keep on hand
• Offers you additional resources and emotional support

Throughout, Gillick provides helpful information and concrete concepts that caregivers can put into practice today. Authoritative, comprehensive, holistic, and highly illustrated, The Caregiver’s Encyclopedia will help you figure out how to be the best caregiver you can be.

 

Health Care of the Older Adult – The growing number of older adults in Australia and New Zealand makes an understanding of their health needs and problems of critical importance to all nurses who work with them, both in specialty facilities and in other health facilities and services that have a large clientele who are ageing. Health Care of the Older Adult contributes to a greater knowledge of ageing, age-related issues and healthcare problems of older adults. The role of nurses in relation to older adults health problems is highlighted throughout the book, but it also focuses on normal ageing, health promotional activities, and how governments have responded to our ageing societies. It will prove an essential textbook for nurses working in aged care or with older clients, and a useful reference book for other health professionals.

 

Better for Everyone – was developed through the research project, Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care: Reducing behaviours of concern in residential aged care by working with staff, families and the physical environment. The project drew together existing research and applied the conclusions to communities of seven aged care facilities, to demonstrate the effectiveness of applying research findings to everyday life.

The existing research related to:

• The physical environment
• Staff knowledge
• Staff mentoring
• Family involvement.

This project resulted in a comprehensive understanding of the origins of behaviour considered to be “challenging”, and the feelings associated with it, from the perspective of residents, staff, and families. Better for Everyone will help any care environment apply the lessons learned during the EBPRAC project.

 

101 Positive Memory Activities – Using Memories to Master Emotions Set – This book is aimed at retrieving specific positive memories from the past with open-ended questions, which in turn will result in a heightened sense of well being and positive behaviours. At the core of the book’s foundation is the theory that positive thoughts elicit feelings that will result in positive behaviours. Users of this book respond through words and/or images and learn how to create pleasurable feelings by thinking positive thoughts. Each page includes a quotation to spark conversation or activity work, written prompts to ‘get you going’, and blank space for the positive memory work. This is a spiral bound book, 112 pages, intended for ages 18 and up.