Caregiver

This class has given me a number of ways to utilize therapeutic approaches that will engage group members in dialogue while allowing them to develop their own community of support among each other. For that reason, the role as a facilitator for the caregiver support group allow me to demonstrate some skills on how to effectively engage group members and at the same time developed the skill of just listening. However, listening is an important skill that I need to develop. Although I listened to…

The Senior Caregiver and Medication Management Nearly 70 percent of seniors who need to be hospitalized have had some sort of complication with a medication. According to the MerckMaual, seniors are 400 percent more likely to have adverse drug reactions than those in other age groups. Even so, it is estimated that over 90 percent of these incidents could have been prevented with proper medication management. For example, upwards of 50 percent of surveyed seniors over 65 admit to not taking…

Family Functioning Kinship caregiver health (physical, mental and emotional of each kin caregiver Ms. Norman stated that she has no health issues nor does she take any medications. She stated that her last checkup was over a year ago. Ms. Norman reported no other health, emotional or mental health issues and stated that she has no disabilities that will prevent her from caring for the children. This interviewer indicated that on a previous home study she was reported to having bipolar. Ms.…

Ineffective caregivers training reduces the quality of palliative care and services as it can lead to caregivers’ inability to provide high standard of care for their loved ones. Ineffective caregivers training can cause the caregivers to have ‘lack of information and skills which result in them not been able to deliver proper care for the patient.’ (Hafsteinsdóttir, Vergunst, Lindeman, & Schuurmans, 2010) For example, a diabetic patient have diabetic foot ulcer that have been developed due to…

emotionally draining for those who directly care for the person with the illness . A caregiver faces many obstacles while caring for their loved ones. Like whether or not they are even able to afford to care for this family member in the near or far future. Being a caregiver is very demanding. Many times they have to put their lives aside for who they are caring for , for example, maybe the caregiver has a school or work schedule, where in some circumstances the person who they…

Since becoming the Senior Social Worker / Acting Caregiver Support Coordinator, I have provided feedback and recommendations that have directly influenced the program’s policies and procedures. For example, when I began working with the program in May 2015, Veterans and their Caregivers had 6 months to appeal the outcome of their assessment for the Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers Programs. Working collaboratively with other program staff, we immediately recognized the length of…

best meet the needs of the student, faculty, and caregivers. Primarily, it is important to take into consideration the child’s living situation and stressors, which limits the student’s ability to function at optimum capacity within the school setting. Educating our client and collaboration is the…

In the journal article, Mediation of Family Dynamics, Personal Strengths, and Mental Health in Dementia Caregivers, it’s about using the structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate the role of family dynamics and personal strengths in the mental health of dementia caregivers from Latin America. The procedure of this experiment was done through a sample of one hundred and ten caregivers from Argentina who suffers from dementia and completed measures of these constructs. As stated in this…

Strategies that Advocate for Students and Caregivers Our school attempts to meet the needs of every child and their caregivers. Our school system makes sure that all the students in the system are taken care of in regards to food and health care needs. Our school system feeds every student a free breakfast every day. Students are also eligible to receive a free dinner if they attend an after school program. This is providing two main objectives. The first being that every child is receiving at…

AlZheimer’s Disease & the Caregiver By David Nolte Purdue Calumet ObJECTIVES • The caregiver will be able to verbally identify techniques to keep the dementia patient grounded in reality at the end of the teaching session. • The caregiver will be able to verbally identify techniques to deal with an agitated patient at the end of the teaching session. • The caregiver will be able to verbally identify ways to provide a safe environment for the dementia patient at the end of the teaching…