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What Do I Do? How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder Revised and Illustrated Edition By Katherine L. Karr, MEd Photographed by Jesse Karr What Do I Do? How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder (Revised and Illustrated Edition) This page intentionally left blank What Do I Do? How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder (Revised and Illustrated Edition) By Katherine Karr Photographed by Jesse Karr Ö Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK What Do I Do? How to Care for. Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder (Revised and Illustrated Edition) has also been published as Activities. Adaptation A Aging. Volume 7, Number I, September 1985. First published 1985 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor <& Francis Group, an informa business © 1985 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be repro duced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo copying, microfilm and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, with out permission in writing from the publisher. Library °f Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Karr, Katherine. What do I do? Published also as v. 7, no. 1 of Activities, adaptation & aging. Includes bibliographical references. I. Geriatric nursing. 2. Aged—Care and hygiene. 1. Title. RC954.3.K37 1985 613 .0438 85-7649 ISBN 978-0-866-56398-7 (hbk) DEDICATED TO MY GRANDMOTHER, RUBY M. MILLER Grandmother: Your death gave to me new life and purpose. Somehow I know you knew that would happen, and such was pan of your having to end your life in a nursing home, rather than in the home you always made with your family. You remain my teacher. You remain my beloved. This page intentionally left blank What Do I Do? How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder (Revised and Illustrated Edition) Activities, Adaptation & Aging Volume 7, Number 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION 1 How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Physical Level 7 Checkpoint: Clothing Needs and Clothing Care 32 Checkpoint: Skin Care 34 Checkpoint: Other Physical Considerations 36 Checkpoint: Teeth and Denture Care 38 Checkpoint: Eye Care 39 Checkpoint: Ear Care 40 Checkpoint: Hair Grooming and Cosmetology Needs 41 Checkpoint: Nails—Manicuring and Pedicuring 42 Checkpoint: Bedsores 43 Checkpoint: Monitoring Medications 44 Checkpoint: Dietary Awareness 46 Checkpoint: Special Feeding Considerations 48 Checkpoint: Restorative Therapy 49 How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Emotional Level 51 Checkpoint: Understanding Feelings and Developing Empathy Skills 68 Checkpoint: Using Touch to Communicate Care 70 Checkpoint: Overcoming Discounting Behaviors 72 Checkpoint: Patronizing Behaviors 73 Checkpoint: The Role of Music in Caring 74 Checkpoint: Special Seasonal Considerations 75 How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Mental Level 77 Checkpoint: Differentiating Between “Diversionary Activities” and Those Which Encourage Wholistic, Creative Growth 106 Checkpoint: Personalizing Activities 107 Checkpoint: Reality Orientation 108 Checkpoint: Remotivational Therapy 109 Checkpoint: Resident Councils 110 Checkpoint: Family & Friends Councils 112 How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune at the Spiritual Level 115 Checkpoint: Special Times for Spiritual Life 124 Checkpoint: Visits From Church Members, Ministers, Priests? 125 Checkpoint: Preparing for Death 125 IN CONCLUSION 129 EDITOR PHYLLIS M. FOSTER, Activities Program Consultant, Littleton, CO EDITORIAL BOARD JANE D. COOK, BA, Activity Consultant, Editor: Scrapbook Pages. Arlington, VA JOLEEN S. CURLEY, COTA, Activity Coordinator, Alzheimer Madison, Wl ELIZABETH SQUIRE DEICHMAN, EdM, OTR, President. Potentials Development for Health <& Aging Services. Buffalo, NY ALICIA CLAIR GIBBONS, PhD, RMT, Director of Music Therapy, University of Kansas, Lawrence. KS FRED GREENBLATT, MTRS, Director, Activities Department, Jewish Home <ft Hospital for Aged. Bronx, NY. LAURA HARVEY, MA, Instructor, School of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. WILLIAM A. HINES, MD, Geriatrician, Kittredge. CO EVALYN P. HOOVER, MA, Director. Glenrock Senior Center, Glenrock, WY M. JEAN KELLER, EdD, MTRS, Recreation Consultant, Recreation Technical Assistance Office, University of Georgia. Athens, GA OSCAR KURREN, PhD, Professor. School of Social Work, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI ELLEN LEDERMAN, MS, OTR, Occupational Therapist, Bright Horizons Center. Pompano, FL DONALD E. MAYPOLE, PhD, Associate Professor. Department of Social Work. University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls. ¡A LINNEA M. MOE, COTA, Activity Consultant, Evergreen, CO MARIAN PALMER, RMT, Music Therapist Consultant to Geriatric Programs, Dublin, OH MADGE B. SCHWEINSBERG, BA, Activities Director, Activity Therapists Association, Illinois Activity Professionals Association, Evanston, IL EDITH M. SHERMAN, PhD, Retired Director, Institute of Gerontology, University of Denver, Denver, CO BARBARA SZEKAIS, MOT, OTR, TRY THIS . . . Activity Idea Exchange. " Seattle, WA JOAN M. THYS, RN, BSN, Geriatric Rehabilitation Clinician, Geriatric Medical Clinic. Denver, CO JOANNE WILLIAMS, Retired Activity Consultant, Author. Speaker. Roseville. CA
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