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Part of a comprehensive training series, this CD-ROM focuses on hip protectors and how they can prevent often debilitating fractures resulting from falls in older people. It is a useful tool for improving falls prevention and patient safety in long-term care settings, assisted living facilities, and hospitals.

Activity staff will love the fun, games, and ideas packed into these CD collections that help excite the brains of young and old alike! Drawn from author Kathy Laurenhue's successful Brain Aerobics Weekly publication, each CD-ROM contains an engaging assortment of original trivia quizzes, exercises in creativity, word games, discussion topics, and more. Print and use these materials anytime and with anyone to stimulate memory, problem solving,...

Unbeknownst to many, bullying is not an experience limited to childhood, but is an epidemic occurring far too often among older adults as well. Bullying Among Older Adults is the first resource to address this critical issue, providing the knowledge and tools to recognize bullying and develop constructive ways to intervene and prevent it.

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Provides caregiving staff with easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the challenging behaviours of care recipients. Care staff will learn how to use this book's proven intervention tools and strategies to identify and satisfy the basic human needs that underlie challenging behaviours, as well as encourage and reinforce positive behaviours.

Remaining as wise and relevant as it ever was, this updated second edition brings professional care partners a wealth of new advice on how to incorporate the celebrated tenets of Best Friends into the everyday care of people with dementia. Using the best qualities of friendship you can ensure the highest quality of life for the people in your care, making each day reassuring, enjoyable, and secure.

The second book in the innovative "Two-Lap Book" series! Colorful illustrations and entertaining test will help people with memory impairment and their caregivers share happy feelings about each month of the year.

Drawing from a diverse body of research, this book illustrates the meaning of self and the importance of providing dementia care that recognizes and supports personhood. It provides strategies for restructuring the physical and social environment to facilitate person-centered care.

With practical information presented in easy-to-understand language, this training guide will improve the quality of foot care provided to older adults in long-term care settings. Includes detailed information on the structure and common problems of the foot, proper assessment and examination of older adults? feet, common nail and skin problems, and geriatric footwear. Appropriate for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home health agen...

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of a trusted resource teaches diverse and effective strategies for assessing, managing, and even eliminating urinary incontinence in all care settings. This second edition provides expanded content on surgical interventions and pelvic organ prolapse, the latest information on available overactive and incontinence drug therapy, new patient teaching tools, and useful care plans for 12 common incon...

The aging population and the rising average life span are transforming current perspectives on growing older, retirement, and senior living communities. To ensure that environments meet the changing needs of older adults, a reconception of housing, communities, and neighborhoods is required. Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging provides the foundation for confronting this pressing challenge.

Expand and enrich your Best Friends activity programming with 149 all-new activities for individuals with dementia. Like the first book, this collection of fun and easy activities will add both meaning and enjoyment to the activities at your adult day center, home care setting, or residential care facility.

Individuals facing death may not know how to express the range of emotions, questions, and discoveries they experience. At the same time, family members, friends, and even professional caregivers may be uncertain as to whether and how to broach the subject of death and dying. Now a unique resource, Facing Death: A Companion in Words and Images, can help open the door to meaningful conversation, reminiscence, and reflection at the end of life.

A useful tool for initiating communication and providing stimulation for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. It can be used by children, adults, and family as well as health professionals as a device to interact with those suffering from memory loss.

Provides information on implementing a post-fall assessment program and decrease the risk for subsequent falls at your long-term or acute care facility. This training CD-ROM aims to help staff identify factors responsible for falls in older adults and adapt fall prevention strategies to meet individual needs.

Like the popular first volume, these 87 all-new activities will stimulate the minds, memories, and senses of older adults. Designed especially for individuals concerned about early memory loss, the short, one-page worksheets strengthen brain functioning, promote social interaction, and provide hours of meaningful enjoyment.

Creating empowered work teams-a method of involving non-management employees in brainstorming, problem solving, and decision making within an organization-has proven successful in the manufacturing sector and is now being applied to the long-term care field. This practical guide illustrates the far-reaching benefits of empowered work teams in long-term care organizations and explains in everyday terms how to implement the concept.

Presenting evidence-based practice throughout, this easy-to-read manual is a comprehensive guide to preventing and managing falls in hospitals and long-term care settings. This award-winning guide explores the causes of falls, analyses their consequences, provides clinical assessments for actual falls as well as risks for falling, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to falls management.

Helps you meet the demand for memory-enhancement programs. This title includes research on brain health and memory along with interactive games, exercises, and quizzes for participants to use to learn about and practice the mental activities. It contains the lesson plans for teaching 12 topics in a course that can run for 3 months or up to a year.

Wake up someone s brain with every turn of the page in this delightfully engaging resource. Featuring evocative images of children, this picture book for adults is to be shared between a family (or professional) caregiver and a person with memory loss to encourage meaningful emotional connections and conversations through therapeutic brain stimulation. Research demonstrates that sensory integration in the brain reinforces and excites neural co...