Springer Publishing Co Home Health Care Provider

This book fosters quality care to home care recipients and is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond nurses' aide training manuals, the book also focuses on psycho-social needs of home care recipients. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills that benefit recipient and caregiver, creating a systematic, easy-to-follow plan for improving quality of life. ...