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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program describes what adequate hydration of elderly residents/clients is, as well as methods to prevent dehydration. Included are ways to deal with incontinence, monitoring intake and output and recognizing potential problems with residents/clients with IV's, gastrostomy or other tubes.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living at Risk takes us inside Sandinista Nicaragua five years after the revolution that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Subtitled "The Story of a Nicaraguan Family," the film centers on five brothers and sisters who commit themselves to remaining and working with the revolutionary government in various professional capacities: medicine, community organizing, agricultural reform.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Having shared so many foster homes that they are unable to trust that the family that has adopted them will last, Flora and her brother, Julian, are assisted by their new mother on a journey to resolve their past so that they can build a future.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The healthcare staff in a long term care facility plays a major role in encouraging self care, which is an important aspect of holistic and over-all care. Helping to maintain or improve a resident's ability to function is an important part of nursing care. This is accomplished by improving the resident's ability to participate in activities of daily living. This program will teach you and your staff how to effectively encourage self esteem and independence...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to respectfully care for a diverse clientele by understanding their cultural differences. This program provides practical and effective methods of recognizing and dealing with the special needs of different cultures by adapting care techniques to the preferences of a diverse clientele including: ethical and religious beliefs, values and practices.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Culturally competent care adapts care interventions to the cultural needs and preferences (ethnic and religious beliefs, values, and practices) of diverse clients. This program provides practical and effective methods of recognizing and dealing with the special needs of different cultures.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The trip from the womb to the world is the longest, most traumatic journey a human will ever take. One result is to send newborns into months of what is much like severe jet lag. Their first sleeping patterns are nearly random. They need to learn night from day and adjust sleep patterns to fit their new world. This dance of adjustment - of children to the world and parents to children - is what Go to bed! is all about. (Learning Seed, USA).
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms of a large group of illnesses which cause a progressive decline in a person's functioning. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. This Speaking From Experience program offers offer first-hand accounts from people living with the affects of Alzheimer's Disease. They discuss the impact it has had on their lives and the ways they manage the condition. It was produced in partnership...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers dramatic, personal portraits of the men and women who represent varying faith traditions, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc., and the wide array of professional environments where they serve. Chaplains are called upon to minister both to people of similar faith and those whose religious beliefs may be very different from their own.
94) The hummingbird
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Counsels baby boomers on caring for aging parents through their final years, addressing the negative aspects of intensive care, discussing the pros and cons of alternative therapies, and sharing advice about the challenges of overseeing a parent's death.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They came for the hormones and stayed for the healthcare. These are the pioneering patients of the first free clinic in the country for trans folks, 1993 in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. More than a film about a clinic, the filmmakers had access to the unvarnished stories of 12 courageous individuals, who share their life experiences in the "Bad Old Days" decade by decade-- from the closeted 1950s, through the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s-- all illustrated...
97) The 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease and other dementias
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"For four decades, this guide has been the leading reference for those who take care of people with dementia. The new seventh edition reflects updates in the field, including discussion of working with home care aides, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Huntington disease, and promising potential therapies such as electrical signaling and nerve growth factors"--
When someone in your family suffers from Alzheimer disease or other related memory loss...
Author
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Raising Grandkids focuses on "skipped generation" families or grandparent-headed households. Collecting together stories from other grandparents and reflecting on his own experience as a caregiver to his step-grandchildren, Gary Garrison paints a compassionate yet compelling picture of the joys, fears, and passions that drive some grandparents to put their later lives on hold to raise their children's children. Grandparents in this situation have...
100) A Calling to Care
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a calling halfway around the world in Karachi, Pakistan.
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