VNA Private Care offers selected books, audio and video recordings, and other resources that enhance independently living and support healthy family caregiving.
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Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family – New, Updated 2nd Edition
by John Paul Marosy
Bringing Elder Care Home Publishing, 2008
$14.95
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Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family 2nd Edition, continues to provide authoritative, user-friendly information to family caregivers, business owners, and human services and healthcare professionals. This award-winning book helps caregivers:
- create an effective action plan that minimizes crises
- successfully communicate with managers and co-workers
- obtain immediate help from available resources
- decrease downtime at work
- ease personal stress and anxiety
Business owners and human resource departments will gain insight into the practical aspects of balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, avoid productivity loss and costly turnover, implement cost-effective solutions to aid family caregivers, empower caregiving employees, and remain competitive in an aging labor market. In addition, the comprehensive resource list will prove a valuable tool for healthcare professionals looking to assist family members during this difficult time.
Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family 2nd Edition will meet the needs of family caregivers looking to balance work and family, business owners wanting to avoid productivity losses, and healthcare professionals supporting families in crisis. Author John Paul Marosy is a pioneer in the fields of aging and elder care/work balance and a former family caregiver.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part One: Perspective and Principles
- About this Guide – and family caregiving
- Preparing for the journey: You are not alone
- Elder Care Calculator
- Defining Personal Balance
- Effective Caregiving
- Four Principles of Effective Caregiving
- Part Two: Six Steps to Elder Care/Work Balance:
How to get the most out of the six steps
- Step One: Assess your situation – at work and with elder care
- Step Two: Learn about resources – at work and with elder care
- Step Three: Weigh the options – at work and with elder care
- Step Four: Implement your plan – at work and with elder care
- Step Five: Monitor for changes – at work and with elder care
- Step Six: Adjust the plan over time – at work and with elder care
- Part Three: Special Circumstances
- Grandchildren and elder care
- Long distance caregiving
- Thoughts for the journey
- Part Four: Elder care resources from A-Z
- About the Author
- Publications and Seminars by Bringing Elder Care Home
- Quick Order Form
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The Comfort of Home™ - Third Edition
A Complete Guide for Caregivers
by Maria M. Meyer & Paula Derr, RN
CareTrust Publications, 2002
$24.95
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A complete guide for home caregivers with everything you need to bring confidence and peace of mind.
“A must have resource for anyone assuming or considering the caregiver role. Physicians, family practitioners and geriatricians, and hospital social workers should be familiar with the book and recommend it to families of the elderly.”
– Reviewers Choice, Home Care University Quality Review
“An excellent guide on caregiving in the home. Home health professionals will find it to be a useful tool in teaching family caregivers.”
– Doody’s Health Sciences Review Journal
Simple and Practical! Starts with the basics from “Is Home Care for You?” to “Getting In-home Help” and “Paying for Care.” Easy to read.
Positive and Empowering! Contains all the information you need to effectively communicate with the entire heath care team to get the best quality of care possible for the person in your care.
Avoid Caregiver Burnout! This expanded section teaches how to deal with guilt, anger, depression and offers practical steps for very necessary caregiver self-care.
A to Z! Fully Updated and Expanded
Takes you through all the steps of home care, helping you to:
- make the home safe and comfortable for people with special needs
- easily handle everyday activities like toileting, bathing, feeding and dressing
- know how to prevent back injuries with wheelchair transfers
- ensure proper nutrition and exercise—for you and the person in your care
- handle any emergency and know when to call an ambulance
- understand Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit and updated IRS tax rules
- deal with the particular needs of an aging person
- understand end-of-life health care documents and plan for funerals and grief
Plus—Contains checklists, free and low-cost resources, and tips to make your job easier. |
Table of Contents
- Part One: Getting Ready
- Is Home Care of You?
- Using the Health Care Team Effectively
- Getting In-Home Help
- Paying for Care
- Financial Management and Tax Planning
- Planning End-of-Life Care
- Preparing the Home
- Equipment and Supplies
- Part Two: Day by Day
- Setting Up a Plan of Care
- How to Avoid Caregiver Burnout
- Activities of Daily Living
- Therapies
- Special Challenges
- Diet, Nutrition & Exercise
- Emergencies
- Body Mechanics—Positioning, Moving and Transfers
- Hospice Care
- Funeral Arrangements and the Grieving Process
- Part Three: Additional Resources
- Common Abbreviations
- Common Specialists
- Caregiver Organizations
- Glossary
- Index
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The Comfort of Home™ for Alzheimer's Disease:
A Guide for Caregivers
by Maria M. Meyer
$24.95
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A complete guide to help you cope with the challenges—and find the moments of joy—in Alzheimer’s care.
A to Z! From the early signs to the late stages, helping you to:
- make the home safe and comfortable
- make everyday activities like toileting, bathing, feeding, and dressing easier
- find in-home help when you need a break or because the caregiving becomes too hard to do by yourself
- work with the doctors to get the best quality of care possible
- understand end-of-life health care needs
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Table of Contents
- Part One: Getting Ready
- Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
- Preparing the Home
- Hiring and Paying for Care
- Financial, Legal, and Medical Planning
- Health Care for the Person with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Part Two: Day- by-Day Living with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Setting Up a Plan for Day-to-Day Activities
- How to Avoid Caregiver Burnout
- Understanding and Improving Communication
- Activities of Daily Living
- Understanding Behavior in Alzheimer’s Disease
- Moving, Transfers, and Falls
- Special Occasions and Challenges
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Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family – New, Updated 2nd Edition E-Book
by John Paul Marosy
Bringing Elder Care Home Publishing, 2008
$14.95
Buy now
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Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family 2nd Edition, continues to provide authoritative, user-friendly information to family caregivers, business owners, and human services and healthcare professionals. This award-winning book helps caregivers:
- create an effective action plan that minimizes crises
- successfully communicate with managers and co-workers
- obtain immediate help from available resources
- decrease downtime at work
- ease personal stress and anxiety
Business owners and human resource departments will gain insight into the practical aspects of balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, avoid productivity loss and costly turnover, implement cost-effective solutions to aid family caregivers, empower caregiving employees, and remain competitive in an aging labor market. In addition, the comprehensive resource list will prove a valuable tool for healthcare professionals looking to assist family members during this difficult time.
Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family 2nd Edition will meet the needs of family caregivers looking to balance work and family, business owners wanting to avoid productivity losses, and healthcare professionals supporting families in crisis. Author John Paul Marosy is a pioneer in the fields of aging and elder care/work balance and a former family caregiver.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part One: Perspective and Principles
- About this Guide – and family caregiving
- Preparing for the journey: You are not alone
- Elder Care Calculator
- Defining Personal Balance
- Effective Caregiving
- Four Principles of Effective Caregiving
- Part Two: Six Steps to Elder Care/Work Balance:
How to get the most out of the six steps
- Step One: Assess your situation – at work and with elder care
- Step Two: Learn about resources – at work and with elder care
- Step Three: Weigh the options – at work and with elder care
- Step Four: Implement your plan – at work and with elder care
- Step Five: Monitor for changes – at work and with elder care
- Step Six: Adjust the plan over time – at work and with elder care
- Part Three: Special Circumstances
- Grandchildren and elder care
- Long distance caregiving
- Thoughts for the journey
- Part Four: Elder care resources from A-Z
- About the Author
- Publications and Seminars by Bringing Elder Care Home
- Quick Order Form
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Health Watch®
VNA Private Care is proud to offer Health Watch® - the next generation of personal monitoring systems. Established in 1986, Health Watch is the second largest provider of Personal Response Systems in the United States and has earned our trust as a valuable extension of our own quality home care services.
Our goal is to assure peace of mind for you and your loved ones. Health Watch® personal monitoring systems further this goal by providing a vital safety net people need to continue living at home in familiar and comfortable surroundings. Health Watch is totally focused on ensuring independence, safety and well being - and in giving loved ones genuine peace of mind.
Through VNA Private Care, Health Watch® provides both personal response and medication management systems.
HW9000 Personal Response System
This System Serves those who:
- Live alone
- Have limited mobility
- Are visually and/or hearing impaired
- Live far from caregivers
- Have a serious medical condition
- Are at-risk for falls
- Have a complicated medication regimen
- Have difficulty using a regular phone
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The HW9000 is the flagship of the Health Watch® family of Personal Response Systems. It features an Automatic Daily System Self-test and Automatic Pendant Supervisor. These system tests require absolutely no action from you, and ensure your equipment is operating properly every single day. These systems are still the only ones that offer these vital system safeguards as standard features.
To learn more about how the HW9000 and other Health Watch® Personal Response Systems can help you, call VNA Private Care today at (781) 431-1484, or contact us online.
Automated Medication Management: MD.2 - an advanced tool to help you manage medication schedules
The MD.2 is ideal for people with medication compliance issues such as
- Forgetfulness,
- Taking too much of or the wrong medications, or
- Taking medications on the wrong day.
It is also appropriate for individuals suffering from
- mild to moderate dementia (Alzheimer's or psychiatric conditions) and
- physical dexterity issues.
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Medication schedules can be complicated and difficult for people to manage on their own. The MD.2 Personal Medication System is an easy to use, reliable medication delivery system that simplifies medication organization and delivery, reminds individuals to take their medications on schedule, and monitors compliance.
The MD.2's intelligent, one-button design, multiple reminders (audible spoken words and tones, visual flashing light and text messages), and easy to open dispensing cups make it easy for any individual capable of self-medicating to operate the unit.
Health Watch is pleased to offer the remarkable MD.2 Personal Medication System as part of the safety net people need to continue living safely and independently at home. Learn more about how the MD.2 can help you. Call VNA Private Care today at (781) 431-1484 or contact us online.
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