Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care: The Blending of Traditional

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Explore how community-based networks can effectively meet the needs and problems of sick, elderly people and their caregivers! Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care: The Blending of Traditional Practice with Cooperative Strategies explores how social workers, aides, nurses, administrators, and policy makers can cooperatively work by maintaining appropriate health records in order to keep the... Read more

Explore how community-based networks can effectively meet the needs and problems of sick, elderly people and their caregivers!

Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care: The Blending of Traditional Practice with Cooperative Strategies explores how social workers, aides, nurses, administrators, and policy makers can cooperatively work by maintaining appropriate health records in order to keep the elderly living at home. Based on the author’s twenty-five years of social work experience in geriatric home care case management, this book explores improved ways to organize home health care by use of cooperative strategies in order to assist older individuals in living independent lives at home.

Complete with informative case studies and interviews, you will explore useful examples of geriatric social work practice through Concerned Home Managers for the Elderly, (COHME) a nonprofit, licensed home health care agency. Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care examines many crucial geriatric care and case management issues of concern to geriatric social workers, including:

offering meaningful and fulfilling work as a home health care aide
providing high-quality training and ongoing education for home care aides
creating a cooperative environment by encouraging staff, social workers, and nurses to share expertise with the case management coordinators who are responsible for placing the geriatric patient at home or in a special care facility
involving the client in the management of his or her own health care
creating concise, one-page reports for each home visit by using a “One-Sheet” to help you extract case assessments and plans for your geriatric client in a readily accessible format
dealing with state regulatory authorities and the general trend in home health care to place the elderly in nursing homes
paying careful attention to financial and administrative problems within your organization while striving to remain true to your original mission of providing at-home care

Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care will help you explore a different way of organizing home health care for the sick and elderly at a time when the percentage of people over sixty-five who will require care is rapidly increasing. This important book works to improve the case management of geriatric people and challenges home health care workers and legislators to become more progressive in their thinking about the direction in which geriatric health care should move at the turn of the century. With this vital book, you will gain insight into organized and cooperative methods of providing home health care for the elderly and find improved methods for managing your geriatric cases to give your clients optimum care.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Hints of a New Kind of Case Management in Traditional Hospital-Based Home Health Care
Chapter 1. The Dying Marriage Counselor: A Poor Family in Crisis
Chapter 2. The Overwhelmed Attorney: A Wealthy Family in Crisis
Chapter 3. The Eccentric Artist: The Filial Role in Home Care for the Frail Elderly
Chapter 4. Elderly Home Care Clients: Maintaining Purpose in Life
Chapter 5. Caregivers and Their Ill Spouses: Creating a Health-Promoting Group for Elderly Couples in a Hospital Home Care Program
Principles of Health-Promoting Group Formation
Forming the Group
Fitting In
Later Activities
Unfinished Business
Implications and Observations
Part II: Cooperative Home Care in Community-Based Agencies
Chapter 6. Aspects of Cooperative Home Care for the Elderly in Bologna, Italy
CADIAI
Chapter 7. COHME’s First In-Service on Cooperativism
Situations Taken from Aides’ Problems
Staff Situations in the Office
Replies from Everyone at the General Meeting
Part III: Using Cooperative Strategies--Specialized Training and Supervision of Home Health Aides
Chapter 8. Training Aides to Care for Dementia Patients
Chapter 9. Training Aides to Work in Cluster Care with the Newly Dependent Elderly
Dependency
Training Aides to Care for Newly Dependent Elderly
Edited Text of In-Service Program: Residence Director’s Remarks to Home Health Aides
Cluster Care Confidentiality
Compassion
Edited Vignettes: Breaking the Ice and Introducing Techniques
Conclusions
Chapter 10. Developing Trusting Relationships Between White Clients and Black Aides
Results Obtained from the Videotape
Symposium Discussion
Conclusions
Part IV: COHME’S Approach to Geriatric Case Management
Chapter 11. Principles of COHMEs Case Management
Geriatric Case Management
Range of Services Provided by Professional Geriatric Case Managers
Contributors to Case Management
Case Study Illustrating Aspects of Skilled Case Management
Controversies in the Case Management Field
New Directions
Chapter 12. Teaching the Uses of the COHME One-Sheet
Presentation
Concluding Thoughts
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Lucille Rosengarten

Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care The Blending of Traditional Practice with Cooperative Strategies

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