Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book Caregivers Journal written by Erin Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is for family and friends of people suffering from long term, chronic illnesses. Caregivers of such patients often experience their own illnesses as a result of giving all of themselves to their loved ones. Stress, physical exhaustion, depression, changes in mental and physical health, and many more things are often side effects that come with caregiving. This journal will help caregivers with having a safe place to express their challenges, fears, and hopes. It offers prompts that will encourage a caregiver to think about caring for themselves in the same way that they are caring for the people or person they love.
Download or read book Taking Care of Our Own written by Sherry N. Mong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.
Download or read book A Journal for Family Caregivers written by Harriet Hodgson and published by Family Caregivers. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Book three in The Family Caregiver's Series. The books in this series are designed to support you, the family caregiver, which in turn will help you be supportive to your loved one. While caregiving is love in action, it is also a demanding job. One that requires a lot of self-care to keep us going. This journal is a place for thoughts and feelings, but also a place to jot down ideas and plans to make the job easier.
Download or read book The Family Caregiver s Guide written by Harriet Hodgson and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a loved one at home. What’s really involved? And what does it mean for your family and future? Tens of millions of Americans have had these questions and more as they prepare for this unsettling yet necessary task. The Family Caregiver’s Guide fills in the gaps, connecting the dots between research and real life. Drawing on the author’s extensive caregiving experience, this book provides strategies to care for your loved one, inside and out, as well as for yourself—including how to use your natural skills in your new role, and which skills you may need to add. You’ll discover how to set up your home for caregiving, including a safety checklist, equipment suggestions, and words you should know. And for those days that are more than a handful, you’ll find positive affirmations, a section on facing and accepting illness, and smart steps at the end of each chapter, in case you need guidance in a hurry. Caregiving has both rewards and challenges. But through it all, you’ll discover what’s most important—that caregiving is love in action.
Download or read book Family Caregiver Answer Book written by Rebecca Colmer and published by EKLEKTIKA, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counselling in General Practice written by Roslyn Corney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many GPs now employ counsellors to help them with the psychological and emotional problems of their patients. The contributors to this book have wide experience of counsellor attachments and have been involved in developing and promoting GP counselling on a nation-wide scale. They explore the counsellor's role in general practice and investigate the issues involved, giving practical guidance which will be invaluable to those wishing to set up a counselling service.
Download or read book A Place for Dad written by Natasha Shamone-Gilmore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first book is like a journal of the day-to-day events that occurred in the family while I and others cared for my father, mother and brother since 2010. This is not a memoir. This is a true life journal. The stories are real. The people are still living except my brother who passed away May 25, 2013.
Download or read book The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-11-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety. Yet a major influence on the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home health care will be the set of issues encompassed by the field of human factors research-the discipline of applying what is known about human capabilities and limitations to the design of products, processes, systems, and work environments. To address these challenges, the National Research Council began a multidisciplinary study to examine a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues resulting from the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. Its goal is to lay the groundwork for a thorough integration of human factors research with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. On October 1 and 2, 2009, a group of human factors and other experts met to consider a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues associated with the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. This book is a summary of that workshop, representing the culmination of the first phase of the study.
Download or read book Caring for the Family Caregiver written by Elaine Wittenberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caring for the Family Caregiver is an extensive practical tool kit for health care providers across the healthcare continuum. Regardless if it is a mother caring for a child with a developmental disability, a wife caring for a husband with a long term chronic illness, or a daughter sitting at the bedside of her father who is enrolled in hospice, family caregivers are the silent "other patient" in the health care drama. Healthcare providers who do not attend to the needs of the caregiver not only inflict interactional suffering, but dilute their treatment by not engaging the caregiver as a partner. In fact, they may unintentionally do harm as the caregiver flounders and thus patient treatment fails. As noted by one dying cancer patient in an educational YouTube video of his cancer journey, "there are two patients not one." If we are to eliminate the interactional suffering experienced by family caregivers, we must train both the caregiver and the health care team for the important interaction and roles that are required for the successful care of the patient. Caregivers lack information, skills, and emotional support for the tireless task they are volunteering for. They need to be taught how to advocate for themselves and their patients and how to best communicate with the health care team. Likewise, health care providers have the skills and knowledge to provide outstanding patient centered care; however, they are not taught the importance of the family caregiver, nor do they always understand that experience or how to help"--
Download or read book Caring for the Family Caregiver written by Elaine Wittenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for the Family Caregiver examines the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the family caregiver in chronic illness, including health literacy, palliative care, and health outcomes, through the prism of communication. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to identify the impact of communication and its burdens on the caregiver and presents four caregiver profiles: the Manager, Carrier, Partner, and Lone caregiver, each emerging from a family system with different patterns of conversational sharing and expectations of conformity. By synthesizing current data assessing the experiences of caregivers, as well as integrating the narrative experiences of a range of caregivers living through a variety of illnesses and their specific demands, the authors deliver an unflinching gaze at the journey of the caregiver. With an author team comprised of three health communication researchers and a nurse and health literacy expert, this volume integrates literature addressing caregiver needs and burdens, communication theory and practice, palliative care and health literacy research, and the real stories of caregivers. Caring for the Family Caregiver presents the groundbreaking concept of the Caregiver Types and an innovative set of support resources to facilitate improved pathways to better care for the caregiver, making it an essential resource for providers, students, clinicians, policy makers and family caregivers alike.
Download or read book Always on Call written by Carol Levine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantially updated book presents an intimate look at the world of family caregiving through compelling narratives by caregivers that capture the intensity of the caregiving experience, while chapters by noted health care professionals analyze the impact of caregiving, urge more professional advocacy on behalf of caregivers, and offer insightful suggestions for building partnerships for change and fostering improvement.
Download or read book Led by Love written by Chloé McFeters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a family member or loved one can be rewarding and life-affirming in many ways. It can also be consuming and stressful. Finding time for yourself can be difficult. If you are a caregiver for a loved one, finding a few minutes a day to focus on your own needs can be very important. Led by Love offers a portable refuge from the demands of the day that you can visit as you are able. The journal's writing prompts are designed to invite you to write about the practical and emotional aspects of caregiving. The mandalas and abstract patterns offer an opportunity to disengage from challenges, fears, and stresses of the day, allowing your mind and senses to flow with colors and self-exploration. Led by Love is a private companion for the caregiver's journey, helping you care for yourself while you care for others.
Download or read book A Journal for Family Caregivers written by Harriet Hodgson and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Book three in The Family Caregiver’s Series. The books in this series are designed to support you, the family caregiver, which in turn will help you be supportive to your loved one. While caregiving is love in action, it is also a demanding job. One that requires a lot of self-care to keep us going. This journal is a place for thoughts and feelings, but also a place to jot down ideas and plans to make the job easier.
Download or read book Caregiver Journal written by Caregiver Self-Care Books and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the National Institute on Aging, nearly 15 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult. And it is not uncommon for caregivers to experience many different emotions, both positive and negative, associated with their caregiving role. In fact, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, frustrated, and exhausted are just a few of the many common feelings experienced by caregivers. You are alone! There is a popular quote that states that you cannot pour from an empty cup. It is only when your cup is full or overflowing that you have something to offer others. That is why taking care of yourself should be a top priority. Journaling is a great way to add some self-care into each day and provides you with a the opportunity to reflect on your life. In fact, research shows that writing down your thoughts and feelings on a regular basis is linked to improved mental and physical health! Included in this journal: 150 pages for self-reflection One day per page Reflective Prompts regarding the caregiver's day, self-care routine, goals, improvement areas This journal makes a excellent gift for caregivers of those with impairments such chronic illnesses, dementia, Alzheimer's, disability, disease, old age, or mental health issues. EXTERIOR: Cover: High quality softcover with a matte finish. Binding: Secure professional trade paperback binding, i.e. it's built to last; pages won't fall out after a few months of use. Dimensions: 7" x 10".
Download or read book Take Comfort written by Denise M. Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which words describe a caregiving role? Denise M. Brown takes 100 words–including the unlikely blizzard, kitchen and umbrella–and then turns each into a reflection. The reflections focus on a family caregiver's reality, sprinkled with hope.Denise's insights about the caregiving experience feel like a warm hug, a helpful smile and an encouraging nudge. "Take Comfort" will become your daily companion, offering support, understanding and acceptance.Readers say:“Isn't this BEAUTIFUL!!!!”“Thank you for my comforts ~ they are inspirational and always put a smile on my face!”“Thank you. I really needed that.”
