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A good place to look first
Facing retirement in a few years and wanting more insight than that provided by Continuing Care Retirement Communities themselves, I began my "research" on Amazon and found first Sylvia Sherwood's work. It nicely laid the groundwork for subsequent reading, summarizing and analyzing a variety of statistics as well as interviews with numerous adults living in the CCRC's studied. Though I found the research data, may I say, limited, in that it dealt with a relatively small sample of communities, I have had no reason to doubt the conclusions drawn. It is a small, manageable text, which is a plus, and I am pleased to have it at hand in my library. However, there are broader and deeper studies available. ... Read more

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Prospective payment for long term care went into effect July 1, 1998and if your nursing home expects to remain in business under prospective payment, outcome-based quality improvement is a must!This is an all-in-one resource, with the guidance and tools you need to begin your own QI program immediately.Youll get: New policies, procedures, flowsheets, documentation guides, audits and data retrieval worksheets for:Fall Assessment, Nutritional Status, Incontinence Management, Skin Care, Diabetes Management, and Pain Management A comprehensive understanding of the quality improvement process, including how and why to implement a quality improvement program Ready-to-use quality improvement monitoring plans and data retrieval worksheets to examine care specifically related to the MDS quality indicators Quality improvement monitoring plans and data retrieval worksheets to examine care specifically related to the MDS quality indicatorsYou can begin using this practical resource at once to collect data for care delivery processes that your QI team wants to exploreor for potential problem areas flagged by MDS quality indicators.Outlining todays best practices, all protocols are based on the latest literature and AHCPR clinical guidelines.Packed with policies and procedures, tracking forms, assessment tools, protocols, worksheets, surveys, and more, this unique hands-on manual is essential for implementing a state-of-the-art QI programa must-have resource for every long-term facility!For Orders and Inquiries, please call: 1-888-427-5800. ... Read more

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Incomplete Food guide
The book is not presenting the right picture of the Indian and pakisthani cusines.

A book can do justice to the Indian food only if it carries recipes according to the different regions of India...As India is so vast with different cultures and cuisines only a book with different regional Indian food could appeal. ... Read more

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This work presents the results of a study that analyzes how the countries of Argentina, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have responded to the increasing need for home health care. The study, compiled with the cooperation of a team of researchers in each country, avoids isolated, fragmented solutions to the problem in favor of a more holistic profile of programs and services, placing them within the general policy and cultural framework of each region. It then examines the applicability of those home care programs deemed most effective to the needs of the United States as it too attempts to deal with a growing older population and the prohibitive costs of institutionalized care. ... Read more

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Nursing home reform, Professor Farmer asserts, calls for increased emphasis upon issues related to life rather than care. Organizational climate, which reflects the nursing home's unique position to impact life issues, provides a conceptual framework for effective interventions, evaluations, and ultimately meaningful reform. ... Read more

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This eminently practical and accessible book by leading exponents of reminiscence work describes the purposes and techniques of reminiscence and sets out clear, detailed guidelines on how to implement and conduct a wide range of reminiscence activities with different types of client.

Highlighting its tremendous diversity and potential - and its special ability to allow people of all ages and abilities to communicate deeply about their lives - the authors separate out the different aims of reminiscence (for example for intellectual or social stimulation, to allow people to leave behind them a cultural legacy, or as a means of intergenerational communication) and show clearly how each can be directly beneficial either to clients or their carers, or to improve the culture of the arena in which the activity is being carried out.

Carefully chosen examples illustrate each reminiscence purpose in action and link theory with practice to demonstrate the clear utility and efficacy of reminiscence work. The book will be a comprehensive guide for all those in the helping professions, and will be especially valuable for residential and nursing home or day care//hospital staff.

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This comprehensive chapter-by-chapter companion to the textbook includes a wide variety of exercises to enhance learning and hold students' interest. Checklists for the textbook procedures allow for instructor or self-evaluation. Additional Learning Activities provide exercises that go beyond the classroom. ... Read more

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Instead of a career, most CNAs are offered a locked-in, no-growth job which almost ensures that they will eventually move on to something else. A career ladder program, on the other hand, offers them a sense of pride and feeling of professionalism in their position. If your facility invests the time and energy, this program will help you reduce your facility's CNA turnover, save you money, and build a more loyal staff. ... Read more

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With simple, no-nonsense language and lighthearted illustrations, The Resident Assistant's Survival Guide gives your caregivers step-by-step tips on how to handle specific, often difficult, problems like: getting along with others as a team, being a good communicator, managing job stress, dealing with death on the job, relating to family members, working with aggressive residents, and balancing work and family. ... Read more

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Written by a former Nursing Home Ombudsman and surveyor of nursing homes for Medicare and State Licensing and Certification Surveys, this book identifies for readers 10 of the most common specific care problems in nursing homes and how to prevent these problems from occurring.This book is unique in that it provides readers with the actual standards of care nursing homes are required by law to provide, as well as resident's rights, and how family members and caregivers can assure their loved ones get the care they deserve. It is a resource of services to help keep the elderly independent and act as adjuncts to their care, as well as a candid discussion of emotions accompanying the deteriorating health of a parent. ... Read more

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Good Nursing Home Care
"Good Nursing Home Care" by Patty Robinson is a powerful and invaluable work for the new millennium. This is step by step guide dealing with significant nursing home health care issues. Her own family experience and extensive career background make this book and extraordinary guide. Life is a series of profund events through which we all must pass and dealing with loved ones which meed continouous care is the most arduous endeavor we face in todays world. This book is timely and gives us a road map to discern, confront and resolve problems we face to protect and care for our loved ones in the nursing home environment.

Finally! Guidance I feel very comfortable following.
My mother is aging before my eyes and I have not known who to ask and receive straight, honest, reliable facts regarding what is best for my mom. It is always difficult making decisions when we are out of our expertise. Patty Robinson is very thorough explaining all aspects of nursing home care. I did not want to get the education of such facilities at the expense of my ignorance which would have impacted the last phase of my mom's life in a negative way. Thank you, Patty Robinson. Her father was a very lucky man to have a daughter who knew how to best help him at the end of his life.

Experience & Information are the Best Teachers
Ms. Robinson's book provides the information I wish I would have had a decade ago when I had a grandmother in a nursing home facility for over 20 years. At that time we were totally at the mercy of the facility and had very little recourse if there was a problem. Such information would have been an invaluable help in the process. I appreciated the conciseness of her information as well as the inclusion of her personal experience, and as my aging mother my soon need help in making similar choices, I know I will use this book as a resource.

Review from a Registered Nurse
My father was recently in a nursing home - although I am a registered nurse, I could have benefited by reading this book first. The topics discussed are areas where I was inexperienced. Having insight into this process will guide the caregiver and at the same time allow the support that is needed.

Great Information
What a wonderfully written book! The information was plenty but not overwhelming. The kind of book you never think you'll need until it's too late. Thank You to the author for sharing your story and giving us the tools to ensure our elders are being given the care that they not only need but that they deserve! ... Read more

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Greatest Book I've Ever Read
This book should be given to every person before they put someone they love in a nursing home.

Prosecute and Jail these people who are killing our elderly
It's time that these nursing home people that are carrying out such heinous acts of neglect be arrested and jailed. Five stars for this author.

This book may save your loved one from nursing home abuse!
My mother was abused in a nursing home. She was literally neglected until she died. Thank God someone has finally published a book that tells the horrors going on in today's nursing homes! Had we had Dr. Mollette's book our mother's life might have been saved!

Not Worth Reading
Very negative book. Kept repeating same things over in different chapters. Seems like the facts stated kept changing. Book just didn't make sense. ... Read more