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This updated edition of the bestselling book addresses today's intense pressures in staffing and retention. It shows vividly how the Best Friends approach to dementia care improves quality of life not only for persons with memory loss but also for the staff providing care. This book provides guidance and tools for training staff in the skills to provide exceptional dementia care and find satisfaction in their work. Includes: Stories from succe...

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From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today's performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident using a proven, coordinated bundle of key practices.

The imperative to make healthcare care services more person centred is hampered by leaders and providers who are stuck in old management paradigms. Nancy Fox takes you through real-life experiences and succinct, powerful lessons in human, social, and organisational behaviour to teach the skills needed for sustaining high-performing caring communities populated with engaged and committed staff.

Boxed set contains ECAT Manual ECAT Cue Card Pack ECAT Assessment Forms CD-ROM (of reproducible forms and cards) light and sound meter As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's ability to express needs and desires. But how do you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life? The Environment & Communication Ass...

During this critical time, when long-term care facilities are being required by regulators and insurers to actively use quality-improvement processes, this outstanding resource provides the practical tools needed for the job. Instead of repeating the same, worn-out "Band-Aid" solutions, let this innovative new model help you make system-wide evaluations and lasting improvements in care provision, plant management, and staff relations.

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Offering a foundation for identifying and solving ethical problems, this book examines the difficult choices and ethical implications raised as managers operationalize the principles of respect for persons, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Specific attention is given to the importance of the manager's personal ethic, specialized ethics committees, and the role of professional codes of ethics.

Demonstrates how to achieve sustainable success in dementia care by changing the caregiving lens to focus on well-being and the ways in which it can be enhanced in people living with dementia. This book offers a proactive approach - one that challenges widely accepted dementia care practices and provides a compelling new framework for developing more effective dementia services.

Designed to monitor movement in older adults that need assistance, exit alarms alert staff to hazardous situations and allow for timely interventions with older adults at risk for falling. This CD-ROM teaches staff about the procedures for using a variety of exit alarms, including pressure-sensitive pads, pull cords, and postural change alarms.

Case studies, 3D animated examples, diagrams, and sketches in this informative DVD show how to transform existing areas by emphasizing features that appeal to residents and support their need for autonomy and independence.

Whether you are a planning a new community or remodeling an existing one, the second DVD in the Access to Nature series illustrates a variety of ways the building layout can encourage residents to go outdoors.

The first DVD in this educational video series demonstrates the importance of having people, policies, and programs that support outdoor usage by residents in senior housing settings.

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From the internationally acclaimed author of the groundbreaking and award-winning book Dementia Beyond Drugs comes another eye-opening exploration of how to improve the lives of people with dementia and those who care for them. Focusing on seven essential domains of well-being G. Allen Power M.D. a board-certified geriatrician challenges readers to evaluate their attitudes expectations and approaches and to embrace new ways of thinking that w...