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| Introduction | |
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| Preparing for Home Care | |
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| Setting priorities and goals | |
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| Planning and arranging the room | |
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| Basic Caregiving Skills | |
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| Giving medications | |
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| Providing a healthy diet | |
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| Pressure sores | |
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| Hygiene | |
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| Toilet needs | |
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| Symptoms to monitor | |
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| Bed making | |
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| Relieving boredom | |
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| Specialized Caregiving Skills | |
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| Wound care | |
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| Incontinence | |
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| Managing intravenous medications | |
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| Risks of immobility | |
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| Dealing with specific illnesses | |
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| Choosing a Home Healthcare Provider | |
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| Visiting nurse associations | |
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| Social service agencies | |
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| Medication and infusion therapy services | |
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| Community and volunteer organizations | |
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| Friends and relatives | |
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| Drugstores and medical supply companies | |
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| Hospice | |
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| Paying for Home Healthcare | |
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| Medicare | |
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| Medicaid | |
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| Department of Veterans Affairs | |
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| Long-term care insurance | |
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| Workers' Compensation | |
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| CHAMPUS | |
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| Community and volunteer organizations | |
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| Rehabilitation Services | |
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| Physical therapy | |
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| Occupational therapy | |
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| Vocational therapy | |
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| Speech therapy | |
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| Respiratory therapy | |
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| Caring for an Older Person Who Lives Alone | |
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| Modifying the home environment | |
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| Preventing falls | |
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| Personal emergency response systems | |
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| Providing a healthy diet | |
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| Medications and older people | |
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| Dealing with constipation | |
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| Hygiene | |
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| Home temperature | |
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| Depression | |
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| Caring for an Older Person who Needs Limited Assistance | |
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| Geriatric care managers | |
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| Keeping legal and financial affairs in order | |
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| Senior centers | |
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| Adult day care centers | |
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| Continuing care retirement communities | |
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| Assisted living facilities | |
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| Telephone check-in and reassurance | |
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| Area Agencies on Aging | |
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| Providing Long-Term Care | |
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| Getting out of bed | |
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| Preventing pressure sores | |
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| Preventing the arms and legs from stiffening | |
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| Moving an immobile person in bed | |
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| Positioning an immobile person in bed | |
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| Transferring an immobile person | |
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| Dealing with memory problems | |
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| Nursing Homes | |
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| Deciding what is best for your loved one and you | |
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| Monitoring your loved one's care | |
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| Paying for care in a nursing home | |
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| Caring for a Person who has Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Learning about the disease | |
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| Safety | |
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| Finding a loved one who wanders off | |
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| Recreational activities | |
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| Early-stage Alzheimer's disease | |
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| Middle-stage Alzheimer's disease | |
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| Late-stage Alzheimer's disease | |
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| Support groups for the caregiver | |
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| Caring for a Person who is Terminally Ill | |
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| Advance directives | |
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| Hospice | |
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| Relief of symptoms | |
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| Pain control | |
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| Anxiety and agitation | |
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| Dying and death | |
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| Care for the Caregiver | |
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| Taking care of yourself | |
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| Asking for and accepting help from others | |
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| Protecting your back | |
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| Stress relief for caregivers | |
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| What you can do to help a caregiver | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |