Allied Health: Home Health Aid

Information on learning about home care, understanding your client's needs, maintaining a safe and healthy environment, and all that is involved in caring for clients with illnesses requiring home care.

This resource takes the wonder and worry out of what to buy, prepare, and serve those at home who have special needs. Sensitive to real-world budget, time and dietary constraints, it includes many recipes, shopping tips and nutrition information.

Reveals how organizational dynamics and everyday rituals have unintentionally led to resident neglect and abuse. Backed up by research and grounded in sociological theory, offers alternative models for lessening the maltreatment of people living in nursing homes. It provides critical information for family members struggling with nursing home issues, nursing home employees, policy-makers, students and researchers concerned with elder care issues.

Provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time.

This unique book will equip people with disabilities, as well as those managing caregivers for family members, with the skills to successfully find, interview, hire, train, and supervise their personal attendants.

Fully illustrated throughout, the American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving discusses the general aspects of caregiving as well as the specific tasks required for caring for a person with a particular illness such as Alzheimers disease.