Quick Tips for Caregivers is an information-packed book that will provide you with all of the hands-on caregiving advice and instruction you will need every day. A user-friendly format allows you to... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Quick Tips For Caregivers packs in details for home caregivers which cover the most basic levels of home health care; from how to position a patient in bed and how to give a bed bath and protect your back to preparing for a hospital discharge and hiring help. An exceptional guide for caregivers, especially those just starting out.
A compendium of cogent, practical, experienced advice
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Quick Tips For Caregivers provides the non-specialist general reader with a thorough and completely accessible course of instruction in basic caregiving procedures and techniques. The reader is presented a compendium of cogent, practical, experienced advice on methods for improving safety in the home as well as applicable suggestions for ways to reduce inevitable caregiver stress and obtain needed outside support. All aspects of home give provision are covered including medication management, nutrition, wheelchair concerns, fall prevention, fire safety, elder neglect and abuse. "Must" reading for anyone charged with homecare responsibility for an elderly or infirm family member, Quick Tips For Caregivers has a thoroughly "user friendly" text that is enhanced with forty-seven illustration (many of which describe care events that occur every day in home situations) as well as resources for caregiver support, hiring in-home help, communication, incontinence, glossary, a detailed index, and more.
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