Aging Well
Aging Well

Author: Jean Galiana

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-20

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9811321647

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This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessible in all healthcare settings and the home, enabling aging-in-place, financing long-term care, improving care coordination and access to care, delivering hospital-level and emergency care in the home and retirement community settings, merging health and social care, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers, creating communities and employment opportunities that are accessible and welcoming to those of all ages and abilities, and combating the stigma of aging. The innovative programs of support and care in Aging Well serve as models of excellence that, when put into action, move health spending toward a sustainable path and greatly contribute to the well-being of older adults.

Restraint-Free Care
Restraint-Free Care

Author: Neville E. Strumpf

Publisher:

Published: 1998-09-15

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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This manual is designed to help clinicians, administrators, and families attain the goal of restraint-free care of frail elderly persons. Practical alternatives to restraint models of support, developed by nursing home and hospital caregivers, are presented as individualized care models. The manual is organized in outline form to highlight critical material and to ensure quick access to solutions. The objectives of restraint-free care include not only comfort and safety, but the best possible quality of life. This philosophy of care requires that caregivers make sense of clients' behaviors, rather than to simply control their responses.

Dementia in Nursing Homes
Dementia in Nursing Homes

Author: Sandra Schüssler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-19

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 3319498320

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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, challenging behavior, inclusion and support of family members, pain, staff training and education, communication, polypharmacy, quality of life, end-of-life care and advanced care planning, depression, delirium, multidisciplinary approaches, physical restraints and care dependency. Each topic is covered by an international expert in dementia. As such, the book will appeal to professional nurses, nursing scientists, nursing students, other healthcare professionals, and to a broad readership, and will provide a valuable resource for those working in nursing homes, as well as researchers in the field.

Restraints in Dementia Care
Restraints in Dementia Care

Author: Dr. Atul Sunny Luthra

Publisher: Brush Education

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 155059799X

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Your best tool to optimize patient care by minimizing restraint use Frontline nurses face fraught decisions every day about whether and how to use restraints in dementia care. They need to consider many complicated issues: legislation governing the use of restraints, the policies of health-care facilities, the expectations of families, and—most importantly—the well-being, dignity, and safety of patients and care providers. Frontline nurses need the right support to navigate decisions about restraint use. Dr. Atul Sunny Luthra and his colleagues have developed an algorithm to provide that support. Their work comes from focus-group consultations with frontline staff, a review of current literature on restraint use, and a clear summary of key legislation. The algorithm’s systematic approach ensures restraints are a last-resort measure, and puts the right steps in place when restraints are necessary. This short guide includes: - A review of nurses’ perspectives on restraint use. - Alternatives to restraints in patient management and assessment of clinical indicators for restraint use. - Procedures to ensure informed consent when restraints are necessary. - A reference on appropriate and inappropriate restraint use in everyday clinical situations.

Decision Making Tool
Decision Making Tool

Author: Australia. Department of Health and Ageing

Publisher:

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9781742417721

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"This tool replaces the "Decision-making tool: responding to issues of restraint in aged care" published by the Department of health and Ageing in 2004. The tool includes posters and information sheets which can be photocopied to provide in-house staff development and an information sheet that has been designed to be photocopied and handed to relatives. The purpose of the Information sheet is to stimulate discussion between clients, relatives and friends with staff about: a restraint free envirionment, why restraint is not appropriate, restraint free options to be considered, details of community organisations and government support."--page iii.

Fast Facts for Dementia Care
Fast Facts for Dementia Care

Author: Carol A. Miller, MSN, RN-BC

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0826120377

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This newest addition to the Fast Facts series is a succinct guide for nurses in adult health clinical settings on how to provide person-centered care for patients who have dementia as a concurrent condition. With an easy-access format, it offers the most up-to-date information on dementia and provides strategies for clinical management that facilitate the nurse's work while improving care for patients. The book presents specific care strategies for all stages of dementia and emphasizes relatively simple interventions that nurses can incorporate into their care plans to prevent problems or address them before they escalate. The guide distinguishes between dementia and conditions that mimic dementia, discusses issues related to specific care settings, presents person-centered strategies for families and care partners, and covers the assessment and management of pain, safety concerns, communication strategies, and ethical and legal issues. It additionally provides numerous resources that nurses can offer to caregivers. Fast Facts for Dementia Care will serve as a daily companion for all clinical nurses who work with older patients in any setting, including the emergency room, medical-surgical unit, medical office, and community mental health settings. Key Features: Easy to use and carry in all patient settings Provides communication techniques for different stages of dementia Describes numerous interventions for addressing issues such as pain, safety, behaviours, and ADLs Includes the ìFast Facts in a Nutshellî feature for quick reference Illustrates content with case vignettes

Individualized Dementia Care
Individualized Dementia Care

Author: Joanne Rader

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This book is a guide to understanding, preventing and redirecting difficult behaviors associated with dementia. It presents a framework for assessing behaviors and creating successful individualized approaches, which are designed to reduce or eliminate the use of physical restraints and inappropriate psychoactive medications. The authors emphasize the importance of examining the environment to see how it may be creating difficult behaviors and how it can be altered to reduce or eliminate them. The book is designed to meet the new federal practice standards mandated by OBRA. Nurses, social workers, nursing home administrators, activities directors, and students of gerontology will find this a valuable resource.

Home Care Across Europe
Home Care Across Europe

Author: Nadine Genet

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789289002899

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For every person over the age of 65 in today's European Union there are four people of working age but by 2050 there will only be two. Demand for long-term care of which home care forms a significant part will inevitably increase in the decades to come. Despite the importance of the issue however up-to-date and comparative information on home care in Europe is lacking. This book attempts to fill some of that gap by examining current European policy on home care services and strategies. Home care in Europe probes a wide range of topics including the links between social services and health-care.