Try: The first step in organizing a rational care plan is making a list of needs as family members or friends care for an impaired elderly person several questions present themselves list of needs what are his her needs what kinds of care are needed to allow the elderly impaired person to remain in the community who is going to provide the care when how should the care receiver remain in his her own home live with the children or other relatives or move to other surroundings retirement apartments residential care intermediate care skilled nursing facility or other how can living arrangements be changed to help the person stay in the home or become more independent if outside services are needed does the impaired person have the resources to pay for them how can they be obtained how can care be given to the person in need without denying attention to others spouse or children for whom the caregiver also has responsibility do you as the caregiver feel tired or frustrated from caring for an older person in answering these questions you are developing an important list of needs of the impaired elderly person and bringing into perspective the caregiver caregiver’s needs as well the questions do not have easy answers and the solution may vary in every situation information references "caregiver’s handbook" by the caregiver education and support services seniors counseling and training case management services of the san diego county mental health services no date available at www acsu buffalo edu
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Categories: Sage, Topic, Caregiver Needs&Support, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical, Mobile, Needs Some Assistance, Needs Much Assistance, Immobile, Independence, Some Supervision, Maximum Supervision, Vision, So-So Vision, Poor Vision, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Unaware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory
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Keywords: Care plan care receiver needs organization organizing caregiving care giver plan of action planning
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