CAREGIVING:
REWARDS AND BURDENS
BREATHING
EXERCISES
BELLY BREATH
CHINESE
BREATH EXERCISES
COMPLETE
BREATH
HUMMING
BREATH
CAREGIVERS:
REWARDS AND STRESSORS
CAREGIVERS
- LONG DISTANCE
CAREGIVERS
- IN THE HOME
A
Stressful Experience
Advance
Planning
Care Management
Caregiving
Continuum
Common Goals
Determining
Needed Services
Emotional
and Financial Concerns
Issues
and Questions
Locating
Appropriate Care Services
Most
Stressful Aspects of Caregiving
Placement
and Follow-up
Recommended Reading
Reducing
Stress
References
Resources
Rewards of Caregiving
Risk Factors
of Caregiving
Signs
of Stress
MANAGING
STRESS
Stress
is an Essential Part
RELAXATION
PROGRESSIVE
RELAXATION
SUMMARY
VISUALIZATION
STRESS
MANAGEMENT EXERCISES
Daily Review
Building
Awareness
Body Awareness
CAREGIVING
RESOURCES: SUPPORT EDUCATION AND SERVICES
BACKGROUND
Strategies
Already in Place
BARRIERS
LICENSURE
AND GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION
MAKING
COMMUNITY CONTACTS
Common Services
Communicating
with Professionals
Important Information
Interventions
for Getting Help
References
Resources
RECOMMENDATIONS
SERVICES
FOR CAREGIVERS
Challenges
for Service Providers
Concerns
of Service Providers
Essential
Actions of Service Providers
Opportunities
for Creative Programming
Recommended
Reading
References
Resources
TRENDS
ELDER
MISTREATMENT
ABUSE
AND NEGLECT COEXISTING
ACTIVE
SOURCES OF ABUSE/NEGLECT
Crimes
Against Elderly
Financial
Exploitation of Elderly
CAUSES
OF ELDER MISTREATMENT
Learned
Behavior
Most
Common Victims
Moving
Through Generations
DEFINING
THE PROBLEM
DISTINGUISHING
BETWEEN. . .
ELDER NEGLECT
ELDER
SELF-NEGLECT
Definition
Basic
Distinction of
Psychiatric
Symptoms of Elder Abuse
GETTING
INFORMATION
HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
Studies
of the 1970s
IMPORTANCE
OF ACCURATE INFORMATION
ASKING QUESTIONS
GETTING HELP
Assessing
Incompetency: Guardianship/Conservatorship
Consider
Staff Attitudes
Explain
Services
Involving
Appropriate Systems
Involving
Family and/or Informal Networks
Involving
Public & Court Contacts
Starting
Point: Client Assessment
Tapping
Personal Resource Network
Reasons
For Cover-up By Victims
READINGS/
REFERENCES/RESOURCES/ CREDITS
ETHICAL
DECISIONS: PLANNING VERSUS CRISIS
CAREGIVING
CATEGORIES
Advance
Financial, Legal, and Residential Plans
Anticipatory
Instrumental
Preventative
Protective
Supervisory
ETHICS
- IN GENERAL
ETHICS
AND THE LAW
ETHICAL
PRINCIPLES
Autonomy
and Self-determination
Beneficence
Justice
Paternalism
Many
Decisions of Caregiving
RESOURCES
MAJOR
ETHICAL ISSUES OR DECISIONS
Early Issues
FINANCES
TRUSTS
RESOURCES
MEDICAL
DECISIONS
Logical
Support
Tools
for Health Care Decisions
Advance
Directives and Living Wills
RESOURCES
FAMILY
ISSUES AND RELATIONSHIPS
CONFLICTS
AND STRESSES OF FAMILY CAREGIVING
Caregiving
demands vs. family perceptions and expectations
Financial
stress of caregiving
Principle
of substitution
FAMILY
CAREGIVING: FACTORS AND QUESTIONS
REFERENCES,
READINGS/RECOMMENDATIONS
TRENDS
& DIVERSITY OF FAMILY CAREGIVING
TRYING
NEW COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Effective
Communicating During a Disagreement
Reverting
back to old behavior
SPECIAL
ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION
Communicating
with a Depressed Person
Communicating
with Persons with Vision Loss
Unique Challenges of Communicating with Angry Persons
Stages
of trying
When
someone comes to us about a problem
UNDERSTANDING
THE MESSAGE
Clarifying
messages
Sending
confusing messages
Understanding
as important to communication
MENTAL
HEALTH AND AGING
A
POPULATION UNDERSERVED
CHALLENGES
DEPRESSION
VERSUS OTHER CONDITIONS
Wolfelt
Table
MINDS
AND BODIES
NORMAL
VERSUS ABNORMAL "BLUES"
Potential
Symptoms
REFERENCES
& RESOURCES
TREATMENT
ISSUES
MISSION
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
MISSION
HISTORY
AND BACKGROUND
PERSONAL
CARE
BED
BATH
LIFT
FROM THE FLOOR
TRANSFER
& LIFTING RULES
TRANSFERRING
ACTIVE
TRANSFERS
CARRYING
LIFTING
LIFTING
& MOVING (From bed to Wheel Chair)
LOWERING
THE ONE
PATIENT TRANSFER
THE TWO-PERSON
TRANSFER
TRANSFERRING
WHEEL CHAIRS
TUB
BATH OR SHOWER - Self
GIVING & ASSISTING
WITH A BATH OR SHOWER
SPECIAL
POPULATIONS
BLACK
ELDERLY
Developing
a Caregiving Relationship
Health
Complications
References
Recommended Reading
Resources
Risk Factors
HISPANIC
ELDERLY
Current
Status
Financial
Constraints
Health
Care Services
Physical
and Mental Health
References
Resources
HIV/AIDS
AND THE ELDERLY
Background
Concern
for the Family
HIV-Positive
Older Adults
Housing
Issues
Indirect
Impact of HIV
Prevention
Recommended Reading
References
Resources
Risk Factors
Signs
and Symptoms
MR/DD
ELDERLY
Resources
NATIVE
AMERICAN ELDERLY
Reaching
Native American Elderly
Recommended Reading
References
Resources
Risk Factors
Values
and Characteristics
RURAL
ELDERLY
Challenges
of Rural Service Delivery
Characteristics
of Rural Elderly
Key
Factors in Developing Rural Programs
Recommended Reading
References
Resources
Support
Systems
TOP
HEALTH CONCERNS
ARTHRITIC
CONDITIONS
CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE
CORONARY ARTERY
DISEASE (CAD)
Diagnosis
References
Resources
Risk Control
Risks
Symptoms
Treatment
HYPERTENSION
(HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE)
Caregiving
Implications
Resources
Risk
Control
Risks
Symptoms
STROKE
Resources
Risk Control
Symptoms
DEMENTIA
- ALZHEIMER'S
Caregiving
Implications
Resources
Symptoms
DIABETES
LUNG
PROBLEMS
OSTEOPOROSIS
TRENDS:
EMERGING ISSUES
ASSISTED
SUICIDE
Current Laws
References
Supreme Court and . . .
ELDER
LAW
Establishing
Models of Professional Conduct in . . .
Resources
Seeking
Expertise of . . .
ETHICS
IN RESEARCH
ISSUES
GENETIC
TESTING
Concerns
Impacts
References
MANAGED
CARE
Defining
Managed Care
Problems
Identified
Questions
- Indicators of Quality
PATIENT
PHOTOGRAPHY
Questions
to be Asked
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