What Do I Do? How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder, Revised and Illustrated Edition

Contents
Introduction

• How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Physical Level
• Checkpoint: Clothing Needs and Clothing Care
• Checkpoint: Skin Care
• Checkpoint: Other Physical Considerations
• Checkpoint: Teeth and Denture Care
• Checkpoint: Eye Care
• Checkpoint: Ear Care
• Checkpoint: Hair Grooming and Cosmetology Needs
• Checkpoint: Nails-Manicuring and Pedicuring
• Checkpoint: Bedsores
• Checkpoint: Monitoring Medications
• Checkpoint: Dietary Awareness
• Checkpoint: Special Feeding Considerations
• Checkpoint: Restorative Therapy
• How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Emotional Level
• Checkpoint: Understanding Feelings and Developing Empathy Skills
• Checkpoint: Using Touch to Communicate Care
• Checkpoint: Overcoming Discounting Behaviors
• Checkpoint: Patronizing Behaviors
• Checkpoint: The Role of Music in Caring
• Checkpoint: Special Seasonal Considerations
• How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Mental Level
• Checkpoint: Differentiating Between “Diversionary
• Activities” and Those Which Encourage Wholistic
• Creative Growth
• Checkpoint: Personalizing Activities
• Checkpoint: Reality Orientation
• Checkpoint: Remotivational Therapy
• Checkpoint: Resident Councils
• Checkpoint: Family & Friends Councils
• How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Spiritual Level
• Checkpoint: Special Times for Spiritual Life
• Checkpoint: Visits From Church Members, Ministers.
• Priests?
• Checkpoint: Preparing for Death
• IN CONCLUSION
• Reference Notes Included