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.
Using a thematic approach to activity programming, this book teaches activity staff and recreation therapy students how to maximize cognition and brain functioning to improve the day-to-day performance of both well elders and those facing illness or disability. It features the Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming method.
For the first time, those at the front lines of care have access to a single source for a comprehensive set of practical tools to effectively address distressing and harmful interactions between residents with dementia. This prevalent but under-recognized public health problem in long-term care homes results in serious consequences, including ......
This highly regarded volume teaches managers how to recognize and respond confidently to the challenges of ethics and conduct in health services management. Offering a solid foundation for effectively identifying and solving ethical problems, this book objectively examines the difficult choices and ethical implications faced by managers.
A Step-by-Step Guide for Personalizing Diets in Long-Term Care
Administrators, nurses, dietary managers, and dietitians can support a person's right to make personal food choices using this guide to creating person-centred meal plans in long-term care settings. This user-friendly resource is filled with pragmatic tips and guidelines as well as time-saving forms for planning and delivering individualized meals ......
Created by an administrator struggling to jump-start culture change in her care community, Through the Looking Glass is a unique program that changes staff attitudes and teaches the importance of person-centred care practices by placing staff directly in the shoes of residents - with remarkable results.
Presents 29 case studies that address contemporary issues students will encounter as administrators and managers: strategic management, organizational management, organisational effectiveness, leadership challenges, ethical dilemmas, and more. The cases cover a range of healthcare settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities, ......
Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help hospitals and health systems achieve increased productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. This revised second edition not only supports current financial and workforce trends in healthcare services, but also introduces new measurement methods.
How to Create and Implement a Comprehensive Orientation Program
High employee turnover is one of the greatest challenges facing long-term care communities today. To curb this trend of low employee retention, this useful guide will help long-term care administrators develop, implement, and maintain an effective orientation program for all levels of staff.
