Working with toxic older adults
Subtitle: a guide to coping with difficult elders
By: Gloria M. Davenport.
Series: Springer series on life styles and issues in aging
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.; Springer Publishing Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Older people -- Psychology.; Older people -- Care -- Psychological aspects.; Older people -- Family relationships -- Psychological aspects.; Personality disorders.; Temperament.
Description: "Experienced caregivers will immediately recognize Gloria Davenport's descriptions of the "toxic" personality: the elder who persistently poisons his own care environment with non-compliant and psychologically abusive behavior. Toxic older adults are often hazardous cases for gerontology professionals: they can destroy care relationships, and even produce co-victimization in their caregivers."--BOOK JACKET.

"Davenport presents ways that care providers can prevent difficult elders from manipulating the caregiver's energy and interfering with effective practice, relationships and healing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-274) and index.