This chapter suggests some things that family members/carers can do together with the person with Alzheimer’s. The emphasis is on simple, everyday activities- none of them requires any special effort or expense...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Keeping in Touch |
| Chapter: |
4 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter identifies the difficulties that Alzheimer’s disease usually causes, as well as covering the various problems in approximate order in which they are likely to occur and details how carers can prevent jumping to conclusions...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Keeping in Touch |
| Chapter: |
2 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter covers a range of strategies for ensuring that interactions with someone with Alzheimer’s Disease go as well as possible...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Keeping in Touch |
| Chapter: |
3 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter discusses the pathophysiology of pressure ulcers, complications associated with pressure ulcers, their classification, treatment and more...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Wound Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
12 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter addresses the complex issue of incontinence and dementia and informs nurses about the different types of incontinence and how they can be managed, assessed and treated...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Dementia Nursing |
| Chapter: |
12 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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There are a variety of strategies that nurses can offer their patients to improve the maintenance of personal health. In this chapter, learn about popular forms of complementary therapy and how they promote well‐being in the elderly...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Aged Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
18 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter provides a basic overview of aged care nursing including the skills needed by nurses on how to assess residents and other elderly people. It also examines the skills needed to assess, analyse and plan care...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Aged Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
1 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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Pain is most often poorly managed in those who are most defenceless against it ‐ the elderly. The focal point of this chapter provides nurses with an insight into pain and how it can be effectively handled...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Aged Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
13 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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Wound-bed preparation (WBP) is increasingly recognised as being
crucial to effective chronic wound management. This chapter provides an extensive discussion on the principles in WBP and the problems that can arise in it...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Wound Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
6 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter presents ideas about holistic care planning based on the competency of the person in care and relying on comprehensive assessment of the person's lifestyle and preferences...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Rethinking Dementia |
| Chapter: |
11 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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There is a shifting policy perspective regarding the management of chronic illness. Changing lifestyle behaviours and leadership in the face of debilitating chronic disease will enhance prospects for self management of chronic illness.
Is this the tip
[Product Details...]
| CPD Listening Time: |
22 Mins |
| Conference: |
Chronic Disease Management Conference |
| Date Recorded: |
4 Sep 2008 |
| Location: |
Victoria, Australia |
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Nurses who work with the elderly are familiar with those in residential care who are described as 'wanderers'. Episodes of wandering can cause significant stress to staff and families. This chapter provides a basic insight into this complex phenomenon...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Aged Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
11 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
Dysfunctional behaviour of various forms can present challenges to nurses who care for the aged. This chapter deals with the reasons for dysfunctional behaviour and provides different strategies for managing it...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Aged Care Nursing |
| Chapter: |
12 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
This chapter stresses the importance of being a good listener, provides suggestions on how to identify what the other person is actually talking about and gives examples of conversations...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Keeping in Touch |
| Chapter: |
5 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
This chapter deals with the stories that people with Alzheimer’s tell about themselves. It encourages readers to look beyond the fact that they simply aren’t true and start recognising the purposes that they serve for their tellers...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Keeping in Touch |
| Chapter: |
6 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
This chapter considers some of the ways of managing to keep in touch when the carer is living apart from the person who has Alzheimer’s disease. Two typical situations are examined...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Keeping in Touch |
| Chapter: |
7 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
The law and ethics have a critical impact on how those working with the elderly provide community care. This chapter provides readers with a deeper understanding of these sometimes complex issues ...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Ageing at Home |
| Chapter: |
4 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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The past decade in aged care has been one of considerable ferment and challenge in relation to the growing demand on health and social services from an increasingly ageing Australian population. This chapter comprehensively explores this idea...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Ageing at Home |
| Chapter: |
1 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
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This chapter provides a positive insight into palliative care and its varying aims and responses. It also offers suggestions for the carer and community in terms of responding to cancer and other palliative care illnesses affecting the ageing person...
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Ageing at Home |
| Chapter: |
16 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
The process of ageing, like many other processes in life, is impacted by culture. This chapter offers explanations of what defines culture and its various components and helps to distinguish between cultures and encourage acceptance of all cultures.
[Product Details...]
| Type: eChapter |
| Book Title: |
Ageing at Home |
| Chapter: |
5 |
| This education is: |
eligible for CPD |
|
