Dementia care
Subtitle: a handbook for long-term care certified nursing assistants
By: Frosini Rubertino
Publisher: HCPro
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Danvers, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781556451379; 9781556451362
Subjects: Dementia; Handbooks, manuals; Patients; Long-term care; Nursing; Nursing Assistants; Standards; Long-Term Care; HEALTH & FITNESS; Diseases; General; MEDICAL; Clinical Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine; Internal Medicine; Psychiatry; Health & Biological Sciences; Individual Psychiatric Disorders
Description: "This handbook will help certified nursing assistants (CNA) understand and address the challenging care needs of residents with dementia at each stage of the disease's progression. CNAs will benefit from the how-to guidance that breaks down CMS' initiative, and learn how to provide efficient and effective care to residents"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: English.
Table of contents: title: Dementia care in long-term care; title: Understanding dementia and person-centered care; title: Building an interdisciplinary dementia care team; title: Conditions that impact cognitive functioning; title: Assessment of behavioral conditions; title: Non-pharmacological approaches to managing dementia behaviors; title: Pharmacological approaches to managing dementia behaviors; title: Monitoring outcomes of approaches; title: Dementia care and the nursing assistant; title: Dementia care resources.