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Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides, 5e
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About Providing Home Care: A Textbook For Home Health
Product Description Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aide's 5th edition is a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. This edition contains new and updated information about person-centered care, Alzheimer's disease and many other diseases, infection prevention, and death and dying. The textbook retained all of the elements that customers valued: - Beautifully illustrated chapters organized around learning objectives - Clearly-marked procedures and color tabs for easy location of material - An accessible reading level, perfect for the many different types of students in today's classroom - A table of procedures/skills, chapter review questions, and a glossary - Comprehensive information about nutrition and meal preparation, as well as special diets - Green boxes that contain material about how to be environmentally friendly And was updated to reflect customers' needs: - Added an additional set of exams for every chapter - Updated material about Alzheimer's disease and infection prevention - Introduced person-centered care and reinforced the concept throughout the textbook - Reorganized the chapters to be even more body-systems-based: anatomy and physiology is now paired with related diseases and conditions - Expanded web and community resources for students - Added many new photographs About the Author William Leahy, MD, practices neurology outside Washington, DC. He became involved with home health aide education both out of an interest in the care his patients received and to give direction and meaning to the lives of young people in his community. Royalties from his books fund a foundation for teaching high school students health care careers. Dr. Leahy speaks to groups about enriching our communities and volunteers his spare time to teach. He has been named a "Hometown Hero" by Washington Magazine.
