Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People

Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People
Author: Rhidian Hughes
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1843109581

This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint. It provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people.

Good Practice in Assessing Risk

Good Practice in Assessing Risk
Author: Hazel Kemshall
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1849050597

This book is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, covering a wide variety of social care settings. The contributors discuss a range of key issues relating to risk including positive risk-taking, collaborating with victims and practitioners in the design of assessment tools, resilience to risk, and defensibility.

Decision Making Tool

Decision Making Tool
Author: Australia. Department of Health and Ageing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Frail elderly
ISBN: 9781742417721

"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.

Decision Making Tool

Decision Making Tool
Author: Department of Health and Ageing Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781742417707

Home Care Across Europe

Home Care Across Europe
Author: Nadine Genet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Home care services
ISBN: 9789289002899

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.

Aging Well

Aging Well
Author: Jean Galiana
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9811321647

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:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1998-09-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

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.

Living with Dementia

Living with Dementia
Author: Dementia Alliance
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781722702939

There are many resources available about the cognitive changes and impairments associated with dementia, including Alzheimer's. Little has been written, however, about LIVING with, what for many will be, a long-term condition. This handbook provides information and insights provided bypeople living with dementia and their care partners to help family and friends better understand living with early and moderate symptoms of dementia, and how to best support someone you care about.