
- 180 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Action with the Elderly: A Handbook for Relatives and Friends contains practical advice that will help the elderly citizens adjust in this mobile, technological, and rapidly changing society. This handbook describes the services it offers as complementing the qualities of a ""good doctor, the good priest, the good neighbor, and even the qualities of the good parent."" The text addresses the value of independence in old age, with some case studies to drive the point. The book explains rendering help in a personal way through visits, conversation, or reading; the text likewise offers tips on helping in practical ways such as cooking, memory compensation, and offers of appropriate and nourishing food. The book lists and explains other ways of caring such as maintenance of the home, appropriate health concerns, and communications. The text lists organizations and persons responsible for the elderly. The family doctor, voluntary organizations, and churches all contribute to the well-being of the elderly. The book then discusses the problems of the elderly such as psychological changes or bereavement. This handbook also offers advice on how to deal with serious mental disturbances, for example, depression, delirium, paranoia, or senility. This book will prove its worth to relatives, friends, caregivers, voluntary workers, social workers, religious ministers, and administrators of home for the aged institutions.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Action with the Elderly: A Handbook for Relatives and Friends
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations
- List of Photographs
- Foreword
- Editorial Introduction
- Publisher's Note
- CHAPTER 1. Independence in Old Age
- CHAPTER 2. Helping in a Personal Way
- CHAPTER 3. Helping in a Practical Way
- CHAPTER 4. Other Ways of Helping
- CHAPTER 5. Health
- CHAPTER 6. Communications
- CHAPTER 7. Those Responsible for the Elderly
- CHAPTER 8. Problems of the Elderly
- CHAPTER 9. Serious Mental Disturbances
- CHAPTER 10. Visitor's Charter
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter Notes
- Further Reading
- Useful Local Addresses
- List of People being Visited
- Appendix1
- Index