Toward Better Behavior: Yours, Mine, and Everyone Else's: A Strategy for Improving the Assessment and Long-Term Care Planning Process - Softcover

Speedling, Barbara F.

 
9781979333788: Toward Better Behavior: Yours, Mine, and Everyone Else's: A Strategy for Improving the Assessment and Long-Term Care Planning Process
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1979333785 ISBN 13: 9781979333788
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

As the long-term care demographics continue to shift and diversify, the greater the need to understand people as individuals. Achieving such understanding presents new challenges and considerations in assessment and care planning. While long-term care facilities once cared almost exclusively for the frail elderly, many of whom had also been diagnosed with dementia, today’s populations are far more varied in age, disability, and psychosocial circumstances. That makes understanding “what makes someone tick” more complicated, at best. This book provides professional caregivers a framework for developing an assessment process that results in a deeper understanding of what motivates someone to do what they do. With greater understanding comes a more focused, personalized plan to accommodate the complicated needs of every individual.

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About the Author

Barbara Speedling, Quality of Life Specialist, is a New York based quality management consultant who provides education, training and support to community, residential and long-term care providers in the development of programs and services to meet a broad range of behavioral health needs. Barbara specializes in improving the quality of care and quality of life of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, mental disorders, brain injury, and complex psychosocial needs. In keeping with the core values of person-centered care, Barbara works closely with caregivers to evaluate and develop individualized approaches to the behavioral and psychosocial needs of their residents. In 2014, she authored, “Why is Grandma Screaming?” a guide to improving the quality of life for people living dependently. In 2015, Barbara was certified by Dr. Susan Wehry as a Master Trainer for the OASIS education program on improved care of residents with dementia.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1979333785
ISBN 13 
9781979333788
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
72