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Quality of Life in Long-Term Care
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Quality of Life in Long-Term Care
Sinopsis
Quality of Life in Long-Term Care provides
long-term care professionals and
persons responsible for training staff at
long-term care facilities with guidelines for
developing a quality of life that enables
elderly persons, even those physically or
mentally challenged, to achieve life
satisfaction and to live with dignity. Readers
learn of concepts and methods for implementing
change through staff training, a supportive
management style, the development of appropriate
activities, and the ongoing evaluation of
outcomes. While the focus of Quality of Life in
Long-Term Care is on the psychosocial aspects of
long-term care, Authors Dorothy Coons and Nancy
Mace also recognize and emphasize the need for
excellent medical care and a therapeutic
physical environment. They give administrators
very specific examples of ways to develop a
quality of life that enables even the very
impaired to live with dignity. In helping
long-term care facility administrators and staff
trainers, the authors show how to support staff
development so the staff becomes friends and
therapists, rather than simply caretakers. The
training methods presented provide ways to help
staff better understand and empathize with
elderly residents. Readers will find that these
effective staff training and management practices
help to greatly reduce staff turnover.Chapters
in Quality of Life in Long-Term Care describe
facilities which provide individuality,
opportunities for choice, social stimulation, and
continuity of lifestyle for elderly people who
live in retirement homes, nursing homes, or
special dementia units. These
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examples are from facilities which have brought
about change despite limitations
including financial problems, structural
restrictions, and staffing problems. Other topics
covered which help long-term care facility
administration and staff provide a superior
quality of life for their residents include
criteria for creating a health fostering and
therapeutic environment in long- term care
settings management styles and methods that help
staff achieve success specific training topics
and methods to help staff understand the needs of
the elderly activities and opportunities that
can enrich long-term care environments an
instrument designed to measure quality of
lifeHealth care specialists long-term care
facility administrators nurses occupational,
activity, and recreational therapists designers
and developers of special dementia units policy
planners in long-term care and academicians in
gerontology and long- term care will refer to
Quality of Life in Long-Term Care repeatedly as
they strive to provide residents with a good
quality of life and a nurturing environment.
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Quality of Life in Long-Term Care provides
long-term
care professionals and persons
responsible for training staff at long-term care
facilities with guidelines for developing a
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quality of life that enables elderly persons,
even those physically or mentally challenged,
to achieve life satisfaction and to live with
dignity. Readers learn of concepts and methods
for implementing change through staff training,
a supportive management style, the development
of appropriate activities, and the ongoing
evaluation of outcomes. While the focus of
Quality of Life in Long-Term Care is on the
psychosocial aspects of long-term care, Authors
Dorothy Coons and Nancy Mace also recognize and
emphasize the need for excellent medical care
and a therapeutic physical environment. They give
administrators very specific examples of ways to
develop a quality of life that enables even the
very impaired to live with dignity. In helping
long-term care facility administrators and staff
trainers, the authors show how to support staff
development so the staff becomes friends and
therapists, rather than simply caretakers. The
training methods presented provide ways to help
staff better understand and empathize with
elderly residents. Readers will find that these
effective staff training and management practices
help to greatly reduce staff turnover.Chapters
in Quality of Life in Long-Term Care describe
facilities which provide individuality,
opportunities for choice, social stimulation, and
continuity of lifestyle for elderly people who
live in retirement homes, nursing homes, or
special dementia units. These examples are from
facilities which have brought about change
despite limitations including financial
problems, structural restrictions, and staffing
problems. Other topics covered which help
long-term care facility administration and staff
provide a superior quality of life for
their residents include criteria for creating a
health fostering and therapeutic environment in
long- term care settings management styles and
methods that help staff achieve success specific
training topics and methods to help staff
understand the needs of the elderly activities
and opportunities that can enrich long-term care
environments an instrument designed to
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measure quality of lifeHealth care specialists
long-term care facility administrators
nurses occupational, activity, and recreational
therapists designers and developers of special
dementia units policy planners in long-term care
and academicians in gerontology and long- term
care will refer to Quality of Life in Long-Term
Care repeatedly as they strive to provide
residents with a good quality of life and a
nurturing environment.