Approximately 15 million people in the US need assistance with daily living activities. Daughters most commonly serve as caregivers for aging parents, though caregiving responsibilities often fall unequally on women due to traditional gender roles. Caregiving can negatively impact relationships, employment, and health, though positive effects are also possible, such as feeling closer to care recipients. Nursing homes are a last resort for long-term care, but often have issues like understaffing and patient abuse that families must monitor closely.
This document provides a checklist to help determine if an elderly loved one is in need of assisted living. The checklist includes questions about medications, food/groceries, daily activities, social contact, driving ability, and calls to family/providers. It notes that 7 million older adults currently need assisted living services in the US, and that number is expected to rise to 12 million by 2030. Anticipating the need for assisted living can help defray costs. It's important to consider assisted living for a loved one's well-being even if it's difficult to think about. Resources for caregivers are also listed.
Join us as Griswold’s Chris Kelly, M. Ed & Director of Learning & Development, offers a more holistic perspective on the Sandwich Generation – those that care for their parents as well as their own children. Also discussed are issues facing the three generations involved, and practical strategies and tools for planning and transitioning during this time.
The document discusses strategies that HR professionals can implement to support employees who are part of the "sandwich generation", caring for both children and aging parents. It defines the sandwich generation as middle-aged adults providing care to parents 65 or older while also raising children or financially supporting grown children. Some key challenges faced by these working caregivers include absenteeism, presenteeism, health declines, and financial stresses. The document provides examples of flexibility policies, benefits, resources, and education that employers can offer to help sandwich generation employees balance work and caregiving responsibilities.
This document discusses considerations for professionals working with adolescents. It notes that professionals come from various backgrounds like social work, education, and community services. Some gain experience on the job without formal training. When working with adolescents, it is important to understand adolescent development, individuality, and the importance of relationship building. Relationship building involves being playful, accepting, curious, empathetic, and genuine. The document also discusses motivational interviewing techniques like open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summaries. It emphasizes thinking innovatively when providing case management for adolescents.
This document discusses authority in the context of child welfare. It addresses the different types of authority - moral, professional, and legal - and how to work constructively with each. It also examines the authority of the welfare system as a carer or custodian and how that authority is used. Finally, it briefly outlines different types of care for children, including kinship care, and asks whether the goal of care should be providing a good home or a safe place.
This document discusses children's responses to community experiences of trauma. It covers topics like social isolation, social exclusion, experiences of trauma for Indigenous Australians, and emergency/disaster situations. For Indigenous Australians, trauma has resulted from historical and ongoing losses like forced removals and assimilation policies. Intergenerational trauma can be passed down through parenting and mental health issues. Supporting safe places, people and programs is important for change. Emergency situations can disrupt child development, so principles like safety, calming, efficacy and hope are important for psychosocial wellbeing.
This document discusses grief and loss in children's lives. It covers that children experience loss through various life changes like death of loved ones, parental separation, moving homes, and more. Loss is the awareness of unexpected or undesired change, while grief is the physical, emotional and social response to loss. How children experience and respond to loss and grief depends on their age and cognitive development. Grief is a natural process but can become problematic if not resolved or compounded by additional losses.
The document discusses the challenges faced by the "sandwich generation" - individuals who care for both their aging parents and their own children. As people live longer, families are more multigenerational. This puts a strain on middle-aged adults who must balance the needs of elderly parents with their career and children. Women especially struggle as most caregivers. Without support, the mental and physical health of caregivers suffers from stress. Counselors can help by focusing on resilience and using strength-based questions about family relationships, responsibilities, needs met and neglected, and finding laughter amid challenges.
This document provides a checklist to help determine if an elderly loved one is in need of assisted living. The checklist includes questions about medications, food/groceries, daily activities, social contact, driving ability, and calls to family/providers. It notes that 7 million older adults currently need assisted living services in the US, and that number is expected to rise to 12 million by 2030. Anticipating the need for assisted living can help defray costs. It's important to consider assisted living for a loved one's well-being even if it's difficult to think about. Resources for caregivers are also listed.
Join us as Griswold’s Chris Kelly, M. Ed & Director of Learning & Development, offers a more holistic perspective on the Sandwich Generation – those that care for their parents as well as their own children. Also discussed are issues facing the three generations involved, and practical strategies and tools for planning and transitioning during this time.
The document discusses strategies that HR professionals can implement to support employees who are part of the "sandwich generation", caring for both children and aging parents. It defines the sandwich generation as middle-aged adults providing care to parents 65 or older while also raising children or financially supporting grown children. Some key challenges faced by these working caregivers include absenteeism, presenteeism, health declines, and financial stresses. The document provides examples of flexibility policies, benefits, resources, and education that employers can offer to help sandwich generation employees balance work and caregiving responsibilities.
This document discusses considerations for professionals working with adolescents. It notes that professionals come from various backgrounds like social work, education, and community services. Some gain experience on the job without formal training. When working with adolescents, it is important to understand adolescent development, individuality, and the importance of relationship building. Relationship building involves being playful, accepting, curious, empathetic, and genuine. The document also discusses motivational interviewing techniques like open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summaries. It emphasizes thinking innovatively when providing case management for adolescents.
This document discusses authority in the context of child welfare. It addresses the different types of authority - moral, professional, and legal - and how to work constructively with each. It also examines the authority of the welfare system as a carer or custodian and how that authority is used. Finally, it briefly outlines different types of care for children, including kinship care, and asks whether the goal of care should be providing a good home or a safe place.
This document discusses children's responses to community experiences of trauma. It covers topics like social isolation, social exclusion, experiences of trauma for Indigenous Australians, and emergency/disaster situations. For Indigenous Australians, trauma has resulted from historical and ongoing losses like forced removals and assimilation policies. Intergenerational trauma can be passed down through parenting and mental health issues. Supporting safe places, people and programs is important for change. Emergency situations can disrupt child development, so principles like safety, calming, efficacy and hope are important for psychosocial wellbeing.
This document discusses grief and loss in children's lives. It covers that children experience loss through various life changes like death of loved ones, parental separation, moving homes, and more. Loss is the awareness of unexpected or undesired change, while grief is the physical, emotional and social response to loss. How children experience and respond to loss and grief depends on their age and cognitive development. Grief is a natural process but can become problematic if not resolved or compounded by additional losses.
The document discusses the challenges faced by the "sandwich generation" - individuals who care for both their aging parents and their own children. As people live longer, families are more multigenerational. This puts a strain on middle-aged adults who must balance the needs of elderly parents with their career and children. Women especially struggle as most caregivers. Without support, the mental and physical health of caregivers suffers from stress. Counselors can help by focusing on resilience and using strength-based questions about family relationships, responsibilities, needs met and neglected, and finding laughter amid challenges.
This document discusses holistic caregiving planning for aging parents. It recommends assembling available resources to help parents and minimize costs to adult children. Living arrangements like staying at home, moving in with children, or assisted living should consider costs and quality of life. Regardless of arrangements, some care like housekeeping, transportation, and bill paying will be needed, which adult children or outside help could provide. Planning ahead allows families to integrate financial and life plans for mutual benefit by evaluating resources and responsibilities.
Public health frame and approach to the prevention of child maltreatmentCasey Family Programs
Presentation by Sally Fogerty of Children's Safety Network (www.ChildrensSafetyNetwork.org) at Building Communities of Hope Event Oct. 23, 2012 in Springfield, Mass.
The document discusses holistic caregiving planning for aging parents. [1] It notes that caring for aging parents can deplete family resources and interfere with children's retirement savings. [2] Long-term care insurance only covers severe impairments and not basic assistance needs. [3] The goal of holistic planning is to share resources between parents and children to meet all family needs in an affordable way.
This document discusses several theories of child development, including cognitive development theories by Piaget and Vygotsky, attachment theory by Bowlby and Ainsworth, and Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. It also covers the importance of early brain development and how children's environments and relationships influence their physiological and social-emotional growth over time.
This document outlines the 2016-2021 strategic plan for Illinois Child Welfare Transformation. The plan aims to promote prevention, child safety, permanency and well-being. Key goals include strengthening families to keep children safe at home whenever possible, achieving permanency through foster care by reuniting families or finding new permanent homes expeditiously, and supporting a successful transition to adulthood for youth in care. The plan calls for a trauma-informed, family-centered approach and emphasizes providing stable placements, consistent case managers, and permanent families for all children and youth in care.
This paper will argue that since the late 1990s, UK policy concerning teenage pregnancy and parenthood has set important precedents in the way in which the family is constructed and related to by the state. The incorporation of teenage parenthood into health promotion and social inclusion frameworks has allowed an apparently de-moralised construction of the teenage mother and her child, but closer inspection reveals that there are new stigmas associated with young parenthood. In particular, the shift to a ‘parenting as skill’ approach assumes that adequate child-rearing requires planning, self-scrutiny, knowledge and utilization of ‘techniques’, and the acceptance of formal support.
You have been tasked with orienting new registered nurses in the emergency department in your hospital about how to manage child abuse and neglect cases. The orientation should cover child abuse and neglect definitions, prevention, detection, intervention and treatment, reporting, and interdisciplinary resources.
This document provides information and resources for adult caregivers. It discusses who qualifies as an adult caregiver, the growing impact of adult caregiving, advice for caregivers, and resources available to help caregivers. It also covers topics like making health care and financial decisions using powers of attorney, hiring and orienting paid caregivers, and common questions caregivers should ask. The goal is to support caregivers by providing guidance, reducing feelings of isolation, and connecting them with assistance options.
Family Impact Seminar: No-Fault Divorce MorganGeurts
Through my HDFS 6130 Family Policy Course, I chose the topic of No-Fault Divorce for my family impact seminar. I focused on the potential risk factors, protective factors, and promising policies within the literature.
Spiral of Silence: Caregiving, Stress and its Impact in the Workplace Christopher MacLellan
This document discusses the impact of caregiving stress on working family caregivers and proposes that Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann's "spiral of silence" theory helps explain why caregivers do not self-identify at work due to fear. A study of 104 caregivers found that most experienced caregiving stress impacting their work and that some contemplated quitting or had hours cut due to care responsibilities. The economic impact of lost wages and benefits for family caregivers in the US is estimated to be over $300 billion. The document proposes forming a South Florida Caregiving Coalition to create awareness and advocate for issues facing caregivers and employers through collective action.
The document discusses the needs and challenges faced by families of people with substance use disorders (PWID). It begins with the story of a family whose life was impacted by the father's alcoholism, leading to arguments, abuse of the children, and eventually the deaths of the father and mother by suicide.
The seminar aims to discuss how mental health professionals should support these families with equal care and concern, understand their perspectives and needs. Families often experience shock, denial, stigma and financial difficulties in dealing with the PWID. Support from social networks, coping strategies, and a sense of self-efficacy can help moderate these impacts.
The needs of these families include social support, information about the condition and services
This document discusses the issue of foster care youth becoming homeless after aging out of the foster care system in New York City. Over 28,000 children are currently in foster care in NYC, many having come from abusive or neglectful homes. When these youth turn 21, they age out of the system and are at high risk of becoming homeless due to lack of housing, employment, education, and support services. Recent legislation and initiatives have aimed to better track outcomes for former foster youth and hold agencies accountable for ensuring their success after aging out.
Care, caring, and caregiver are words used to describe those who take care of family members or friends out of love. These terms are also used by those who are paid to help and support others. This is confusing on a number of fronts.
One: there is a big difference between being paid to provide care versus not expecting and not receiving financial compensation.
Two: the policy discussions and funding decisions tend to focus on professional and paid care provided by non profits, governments or institutions as if they were the only ones. This paid sector receives the bulk of the financial resources allocated by governments. In this regard, natural care is playing teeter totter with an elephant.
That the dimensions, requirements and scale of natural care is invisible is a serious public policy issue. We have relegated it as a private matter. In fact, it defines us as a species, as a country, as a society, as an individual.
Providers of natural care need resources to support themselves and the people they are caring for. It is a matter of decency, natural justice and our collective survival. This serious matter should be a high public policy priority.
Al Etmanski delivered this presentation on December 7, 2011 along with a webinar you can access here: http://bit.ly/v6w0Bx
Visit our SiG website for further resources: http://sigeneration.ca
The document discusses issues facing foster youth who age out of the foster care system at 18. It finds that these youth often experience negative outcomes like homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration at much higher rates than the general population. It evaluates the need for a program to better support foster youth as they transition to independence. The goal would be to implement a new program that helps prepare foster youth for adulthood through extended care and services, leading to improved and more productive lives.
Reaching Out to the Larger Community: Health Care - Dr. Vipin Kalia (s08b-2)VHP-America
The document discusses reaching out to the larger community to address health care issues. It notes that a combination of economic, educational, medical, psychological, and relational factors can lead to economic disaster for individuals. It argues that while individuals may deny potential problems, institutions can help solve issues by educating to reduce denial, accumulating resources, and persisting in efforts over generations. The document proposes that the HMEC organization can address these issues while furthering its own mission through creative financing strategies like obtaining grants and endowments, offering credit cards that provide funding, and establishing mutual funds.
This document is a resume for Christine Kovach Hom, LCSW. It summarizes her experience and qualifications. She has over 15 years of experience in project management, program development, clinical social work, and grant writing. Her experience includes securing over $1.65 million in project funding and managing multiple projects at the Florida Institute for Health Innovation. She also has experience developing and directing social work programs for caregiving youth and former foster youth.
This document discusses the impact of poverty on mental health in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It notes that 36% of children in Kalamazoo live below the poverty line, as do 19.2% in Kalamazoo County, which is above the national average of 14.4%. Living in poverty can lead to increased rates of anxiety and depression in children. The document proposes creating a low-cost psychological treatment program for children in Kalamazoo living in poverty to address these mental health issues. It outlines existing social services and healthcare resources in Kalamazoo that could support such a program.
The document discusses using a trauma-informed lens when working with children in out-of-home care. It notes that children in care often have high rates of mental health disorders and complex needs due to experiencing trauma such as abuse and neglect. While these children need various services and supports, many do not access them. The document advocates for a trauma-informed therapeutic foster care training program that focuses on helping foster carers understand the impact of trauma and how to support children's recovery through safe, nurturing relationships.
1) Frailty refers to a loss of physiologic reserve that makes older adults susceptible to disability from minor stresses or challenges. It is not dependent on age, diagnosis, or functional ability.
2) Common features of frailty include weakness, weight loss, muscle wasting, exercise intolerance, frequent falls, immobility, and instability of chronic diseases.
3) Frailty exists on a continuum from vigorous to frail. Early intervention can help reduce disability and adverse outcomes like falls, injuries, hospitalizations, and death in frail older adults.
Frailty applications in clinical practice. Assessing level of frailty can help identify underlying risks to contextualize conversations with patients and their caregivers.
Frailty is a condition primarily affecting older adults that increases the risk of disability, falls, and mortality. It is characterized by loss of muscle and bone strength due to aging. Factors like multiple chronic diseases and physical inactivity can contribute to frailty. Key components include weight loss, fatigue, weakness, and slowed movement. Exercise can help improve symptoms but also carries risks for frail individuals like injury and dehydration that must be managed.
This document discusses holistic caregiving planning for aging parents. It recommends assembling available resources to help parents and minimize costs to adult children. Living arrangements like staying at home, moving in with children, or assisted living should consider costs and quality of life. Regardless of arrangements, some care like housekeeping, transportation, and bill paying will be needed, which adult children or outside help could provide. Planning ahead allows families to integrate financial and life plans for mutual benefit by evaluating resources and responsibilities.
Public health frame and approach to the prevention of child maltreatmentCasey Family Programs
Presentation by Sally Fogerty of Children's Safety Network (www.ChildrensSafetyNetwork.org) at Building Communities of Hope Event Oct. 23, 2012 in Springfield, Mass.
The document discusses holistic caregiving planning for aging parents. [1] It notes that caring for aging parents can deplete family resources and interfere with children's retirement savings. [2] Long-term care insurance only covers severe impairments and not basic assistance needs. [3] The goal of holistic planning is to share resources between parents and children to meet all family needs in an affordable way.
This document discusses several theories of child development, including cognitive development theories by Piaget and Vygotsky, attachment theory by Bowlby and Ainsworth, and Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. It also covers the importance of early brain development and how children's environments and relationships influence their physiological and social-emotional growth over time.
This document outlines the 2016-2021 strategic plan for Illinois Child Welfare Transformation. The plan aims to promote prevention, child safety, permanency and well-being. Key goals include strengthening families to keep children safe at home whenever possible, achieving permanency through foster care by reuniting families or finding new permanent homes expeditiously, and supporting a successful transition to adulthood for youth in care. The plan calls for a trauma-informed, family-centered approach and emphasizes providing stable placements, consistent case managers, and permanent families for all children and youth in care.
This paper will argue that since the late 1990s, UK policy concerning teenage pregnancy and parenthood has set important precedents in the way in which the family is constructed and related to by the state. The incorporation of teenage parenthood into health promotion and social inclusion frameworks has allowed an apparently de-moralised construction of the teenage mother and her child, but closer inspection reveals that there are new stigmas associated with young parenthood. In particular, the shift to a ‘parenting as skill’ approach assumes that adequate child-rearing requires planning, self-scrutiny, knowledge and utilization of ‘techniques’, and the acceptance of formal support.
You have been tasked with orienting new registered nurses in the emergency department in your hospital about how to manage child abuse and neglect cases. The orientation should cover child abuse and neglect definitions, prevention, detection, intervention and treatment, reporting, and interdisciplinary resources.
This document provides information and resources for adult caregivers. It discusses who qualifies as an adult caregiver, the growing impact of adult caregiving, advice for caregivers, and resources available to help caregivers. It also covers topics like making health care and financial decisions using powers of attorney, hiring and orienting paid caregivers, and common questions caregivers should ask. The goal is to support caregivers by providing guidance, reducing feelings of isolation, and connecting them with assistance options.
Family Impact Seminar: No-Fault Divorce MorganGeurts
Through my HDFS 6130 Family Policy Course, I chose the topic of No-Fault Divorce for my family impact seminar. I focused on the potential risk factors, protective factors, and promising policies within the literature.
Spiral of Silence: Caregiving, Stress and its Impact in the Workplace Christopher MacLellan
This document discusses the impact of caregiving stress on working family caregivers and proposes that Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann's "spiral of silence" theory helps explain why caregivers do not self-identify at work due to fear. A study of 104 caregivers found that most experienced caregiving stress impacting their work and that some contemplated quitting or had hours cut due to care responsibilities. The economic impact of lost wages and benefits for family caregivers in the US is estimated to be over $300 billion. The document proposes forming a South Florida Caregiving Coalition to create awareness and advocate for issues facing caregivers and employers through collective action.
The document discusses the needs and challenges faced by families of people with substance use disorders (PWID). It begins with the story of a family whose life was impacted by the father's alcoholism, leading to arguments, abuse of the children, and eventually the deaths of the father and mother by suicide.
The seminar aims to discuss how mental health professionals should support these families with equal care and concern, understand their perspectives and needs. Families often experience shock, denial, stigma and financial difficulties in dealing with the PWID. Support from social networks, coping strategies, and a sense of self-efficacy can help moderate these impacts.
The needs of these families include social support, information about the condition and services
This document discusses the issue of foster care youth becoming homeless after aging out of the foster care system in New York City. Over 28,000 children are currently in foster care in NYC, many having come from abusive or neglectful homes. When these youth turn 21, they age out of the system and are at high risk of becoming homeless due to lack of housing, employment, education, and support services. Recent legislation and initiatives have aimed to better track outcomes for former foster youth and hold agencies accountable for ensuring their success after aging out.
Care, caring, and caregiver are words used to describe those who take care of family members or friends out of love. These terms are also used by those who are paid to help and support others. This is confusing on a number of fronts.
One: there is a big difference between being paid to provide care versus not expecting and not receiving financial compensation.
Two: the policy discussions and funding decisions tend to focus on professional and paid care provided by non profits, governments or institutions as if they were the only ones. This paid sector receives the bulk of the financial resources allocated by governments. In this regard, natural care is playing teeter totter with an elephant.
That the dimensions, requirements and scale of natural care is invisible is a serious public policy issue. We have relegated it as a private matter. In fact, it defines us as a species, as a country, as a society, as an individual.
Providers of natural care need resources to support themselves and the people they are caring for. It is a matter of decency, natural justice and our collective survival. This serious matter should be a high public policy priority.
Al Etmanski delivered this presentation on December 7, 2011 along with a webinar you can access here: http://bit.ly/v6w0Bx
Visit our SiG website for further resources: http://sigeneration.ca
The document discusses issues facing foster youth who age out of the foster care system at 18. It finds that these youth often experience negative outcomes like homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration at much higher rates than the general population. It evaluates the need for a program to better support foster youth as they transition to independence. The goal would be to implement a new program that helps prepare foster youth for adulthood through extended care and services, leading to improved and more productive lives.
Reaching Out to the Larger Community: Health Care - Dr. Vipin Kalia (s08b-2)VHP-America
The document discusses reaching out to the larger community to address health care issues. It notes that a combination of economic, educational, medical, psychological, and relational factors can lead to economic disaster for individuals. It argues that while individuals may deny potential problems, institutions can help solve issues by educating to reduce denial, accumulating resources, and persisting in efforts over generations. The document proposes that the HMEC organization can address these issues while furthering its own mission through creative financing strategies like obtaining grants and endowments, offering credit cards that provide funding, and establishing mutual funds.
This document is a resume for Christine Kovach Hom, LCSW. It summarizes her experience and qualifications. She has over 15 years of experience in project management, program development, clinical social work, and grant writing. Her experience includes securing over $1.65 million in project funding and managing multiple projects at the Florida Institute for Health Innovation. She also has experience developing and directing social work programs for caregiving youth and former foster youth.
This document discusses the impact of poverty on mental health in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It notes that 36% of children in Kalamazoo live below the poverty line, as do 19.2% in Kalamazoo County, which is above the national average of 14.4%. Living in poverty can lead to increased rates of anxiety and depression in children. The document proposes creating a low-cost psychological treatment program for children in Kalamazoo living in poverty to address these mental health issues. It outlines existing social services and healthcare resources in Kalamazoo that could support such a program.
The document discusses using a trauma-informed lens when working with children in out-of-home care. It notes that children in care often have high rates of mental health disorders and complex needs due to experiencing trauma such as abuse and neglect. While these children need various services and supports, many do not access them. The document advocates for a trauma-informed therapeutic foster care training program that focuses on helping foster carers understand the impact of trauma and how to support children's recovery through safe, nurturing relationships.
1) Frailty refers to a loss of physiologic reserve that makes older adults susceptible to disability from minor stresses or challenges. It is not dependent on age, diagnosis, or functional ability.
2) Common features of frailty include weakness, weight loss, muscle wasting, exercise intolerance, frequent falls, immobility, and instability of chronic diseases.
3) Frailty exists on a continuum from vigorous to frail. Early intervention can help reduce disability and adverse outcomes like falls, injuries, hospitalizations, and death in frail older adults.
Frailty applications in clinical practice. Assessing level of frailty can help identify underlying risks to contextualize conversations with patients and their caregivers.
Frailty is a condition primarily affecting older adults that increases the risk of disability, falls, and mortality. It is characterized by loss of muscle and bone strength due to aging. Factors like multiple chronic diseases and physical inactivity can contribute to frailty. Key components include weight loss, fatigue, weakness, and slowed movement. Exercise can help improve symptoms but also carries risks for frail individuals like injury and dehydration that must be managed.
This document discusses frailty, which is defined as an age-related clinical state of increased vulnerability and decreased ability to maintain homeostasis across multiple physiological systems. Frailty is characterized by declines in functional reserves and is related to, but distinct from, disability and disease. Frailty results from underlying physiological alterations associated with aging and can be compounded by disease. It increases vulnerability to stressors and risk of adverse health outcomes. Diagnosis focuses on clinical presentation and functional impairment. Treatment aims to identify frailty early, address underlying causes, prevent adverse outcomes through comprehensive geriatric care, and maintain strength, nutrition, and activity levels.
Introduction to Sarcopenia and frailtyMary Hickson
This document provides an introduction to sarcopenia and frailty in older adults. It discusses how sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs with age, impacting physical function. Prevalence of sarcopenia increases with age and for those in long-term care facilities. Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterized by increased vulnerability to stressors and reduced physiological reserves, putting older adults at higher risk for adverse health outcomes like falls and disability. Frailty varies in severity and can be assessed using tools measuring factors like gait speed, weight loss, exhaustion and physical activity levels. While both sarcopenia and frailty are linked to aging, lifestyle interventions around exercise and nutrition may help reduce their negative impacts.
This video is a talk by Dr. Prakash Khalap on 19 Mar 2016. Topic "Falls in Elderly". This is part of the HELP Talk series at HELP,Health Education Library for People, the worlds largest free patient education library www.healthlibrary.com.
El documento describe al anciano frágil como aquel que tiene una disminución de las reservas fisiológicas y mayor riesgo de declive de la salud. Presenta características como enfermedades crónicas, edad avanzada, vivir solo, ser mujer o en situación de pobreza. Incluye criterios médicos, funcionales, mentales y sociodemográficos para evaluar la fragilidad, así como recursos sociosanitarios de apoyo.
This document discusses falls in the elderly, including risk factors and nursing interventions. It begins by defining a fall and noting that risk increases with age. Environmental factors like inadequate lighting and behavioral factors like multiple medications increase risk. Nursing interventions include exercises to improve strength and balance, environmental modifications like grab bars, and managing risk factors such as reviewing medications. The goal is to prevent injuries through risk assessment and effective interventions.
The document discusses falls in the elderly from a physical therapy perspective. It provides statistics showing that 28-50% of elderly people fall each year, with rates increasing with age. Falls are the leading cause of injury and death for those over 55. Risk factors include both intrinsic factors like physical/functional limitations and extrinsic environmental hazards. A comprehensive falls risk assessment incorporates questionnaires, single-task tests like sit-to-stand and gait, and multi-task tests like Berg Balance Scale. Physical therapy can help prevention through multi-component exercise, whole-body vibration training, home hazard modification, and hip protectors for high-risk individuals. Urgent international action is needed for risk assessment and reduction.
This document provides information from a presentation on preventing falls for older adults. It discusses common risk factors for falls, statistics about falls, where falls commonly occur in the home, exercises that can help prevent falls, having medications and vision reviewed, and making home modifications like installing grab bars to reduce fall risks. The document emphasizes the importance of regular exercise, medication management, annual vision checks, and conducting a home safety assessment to help older adults prevent falls.
The document summarizes the challenges faced by the "Sandwich Generation" - adults who care for both aging parents and their own children. It notes that over 50 million Americans provide care for family members each year, with adult children often caring for parents. For the Sandwich Generation, caring for parents adds additional responsibilities on top of work and parenting duties. This can cause physical, financial, and emotional strain. While the number of family caregivers is growing, caregiving often remains a solitary task. It is important for caregivers to seek support through respite care, home health assistance, and community resources in order to avoid burnout and continue providing quality care.
Lifecare & the sandwich generation. Caring for Aging parents and caring for your kids. The phenomenon of the "sandwich generation" is here to stay. Is your family ready ?
Problem Framing: Early Childhood LearningKevin Morris
A team of MDes students from OCAD University in Toronto defines problem areas and opportunities for innovation in early childhood learning in urban slums.
Dementia Home Care: Context and Challenges in IndiaSwapna Kishore
Most dementia care in India happens at homes and is provided by family caregivers. Volunteers and other concerned persons need to understand the realities of dementia home care in India to be able to provide suitable help and suggestions, while remaining sensitive and respectful of what families achieve in face of so many challenges.
Read discusssions on handling dementia home care in India at: http://dementiacarenotes.in/caregivers/
This paper will discuss the definition, roles and evolution of
the family caregiver, before delving into the topic of caregiver fear – including the sources, consequences and mechanisms for alleviation.
The document discusses several social problems that affect students today including poverty, homelessness, teenage parenting, child abuse, substance abuse, suicide, violence, bullying, and school dropout. It notes that these problems often overlap and cluster together, putting students from disadvantaged backgrounds at higher risk of difficulties in school. The document also examines issues like family composition, poverty, homelessness, sex education, abuse, and steps schools can take to help students from challenging situations.
Challenges and Threats to Filipino Familiesgraecha
Disintegration of families, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, substance abuse, dangers of drugs, ways to help children say "NO' to drugs, parental absenteeism, economic difficulties, absence of family goals and values, early sexual involvement, negative influence of media. A POPCOM Learning Package on Parent Education on Adolescent and Health and Development.
Children living in poverty face overwhelming stress that hinders their cognitive and social development. Growing up in high-stress environments correlates with higher rates of mental illness and weakened development. The constant state of stress deteriorates children's mental health and cognitive abilities needed for academic and social success. Additionally, untreated mental illness is common among impoverished children due to the high costs of treatment and lack of access to resources. This perpetuates a cycle where poverty increases the risks of mental illness and vice versa.
This document provides an overview of trauma-informed transportation for foster children. It discusses how childhood trauma affects brain development and behavior. Traumatized children may experience abnormal behaviors due to their brain prioritizing survival over reasoning. The document emphasizes understanding behaviors from a trauma-informed lens rather than judging them as "bad." The goal is for transporters to help children feel safe and soothed.
This document discusses the impact of disabilities on families. It identifies five factors that influence how families respond to a child's birth defect, including emotional stability, relationships, religious beliefs, culture and socioeconomic status. Parents may go through stages of shock, realization, retreat, acknowledgement and nonlinear responses. Having a child with disabilities can cause stress between spouses and in parent-child, sibling and extended family relationships. Families are diverse and should receive multidisciplinary, family-centered support through training for parents, families and professionals.
Welfare reform for hscf mental health sig july 2012hscf
The document discusses the implications of economic downturn and welfare reforms on mental health and wellbeing. It provides evidence that adverse family environments and experiences in early life can negatively impact children's mental health. Interventions that strengthen parenting skills and provide pre-school education can help promote wellbeing. Maintaining good working conditions and employment opportunities is also important for mental health. The document outlines groups that may be particularly vulnerable to poor mental health effects from welfare changes, such as those receiving incapacity benefits. Priorities to protect health include providing advice, advocacy, and support services during the transition.
Caring for dependents can impact a family's resources in several ways. It may reduce the time and energy caregivers have available and increase financial demands. The effects depend on factors like the dependents' ages and needs. Caregiving also often requires modifying housing and accessing community services, which takes additional time and resources. Open communication within the family is important for successfully managing all these changes.
Dr. Grace was privileged to offer this presentation to a panel at the Unicef located at UN headquarters concerning the ministry of the Kenya Heritage Foundation.
The document discusses the main causes of child poverty in Lancashire, including income-related poverty, worklessness, welfare dependency, health and educational disadvantages, family structure, and lack of social abilities. Child poverty rose in the 1980s and started declining in the 2000s. Income poverty has a huge effect, as working families on low incomes struggle to provide for their children. Children living in poverty face implications like long-term health issues and difficulties in education. The government needs new social policies and welfare reforms to better understand and address the causes of child poverty.
The document discusses the main causes of child poverty in Lancashire, including income-related poverty, worklessness, welfare dependency, health and educational disadvantages, family structure, and lack of social abilities. Child poverty rose in the 1980s and started declining in the 2000s. Income poverty has a huge effect, as working families on low incomes struggle to provide for their children. Children living in poverty face implications like long-term health issues and difficulties in education. The government needs new social policies and welfare reforms to better understand and address the causes of child poverty.
Demographic change is demanding new responses from our society, workplaces, public services and family life
as our population and workforce age. As the number of working age people caring for older loved ones with
health conditions such as dementia rises, the impact on people’s ability to work is becoming an increasingly
critical issue for employers.
Half the UK’s 6.5 million carers are juggling paid work alongside caring. Within the total population of carers,
the number of people caring for loved ones with dementia is rising and is set to reach 850,000 by the end of the
decade.
1 Research has shown full-time working carers are most likely to care for a loved one with dementia.
2 The employers and carers we work with are telling us the same story as the statistics – that dementia and the
impact on employees of caring is a key issue for workforce retention, recruitment and resilience. Very often
the need to care for an elderly parent comes at peak career age. Without the right support, the challenges of
combining such caring with work (often also with other family responsibilities) can quickly become too difficult
to manage. Employees with valuable experience and skills will then either leave their jobs or struggle to cope
in the workplace. From earlier research we already know that 1 in 6 carers leave work or reduce their hours to
care.
2.8 Roundtable Discussion: Improving Economic Stability Through Employment and Education
Speaker: Mark Putnam
This roundtable discussion will explore strategies to improve the long-term economic well-being of homeless families and youth. Attendees are invited to share the strategies they use to help families and youth transition out of poverty. Strategies to facilitate families’ and youth’s access to education, workforce development, and asset development opportunities will be discussed.
Similar to Ch12 caring for the frail elderly rev 11 11 (20)
A.A Profile of CaregivingAccording to the General Accounting Office, approximately 12 million people needed some assistance with daily living in 1995. Only 9 percent of people aged 65 to 69 need help with activities of daily living (ADLs), while 43 percent of those older than 85 needed help. Children are most likely to provide care to aging parents, followed by a spouse. Caregiving generally lasts from five to seven years.
Home and community-based services: most common are: Personal care, such as bathing, dressing, feeding, and grooming.Housekeeping, including meal preparation and planning, grocery shopping, transportation to medical services, bill paying.Case management is provided by a social worker who assists frail elderly people and their families in obtaining the medical, social, and personal services needed.
High turnover leads to poor care, placing the most vulnerable population group at risk of bedsores, falls, and inadequate diet.
Patient abuse very/not very common; may be verbal or physicalHigh turnover and high absenteeism among staff creates situations that provoke abuse. Aides may use restraints to control patients, pinch or slap them. More often abuse is more subtle and psychological.Federal government and states have established vigilant rules in an attempt to protect patients.Greatest protection against abuse in nursing homes is presence of an “Ombudsman program”.Serve as watchdogs, monitor the quality of care in nursing homes by investigating complaints by families and residents against facilities.
Patient abuse very/not very common; may be verbal or physicalHigh turnover and high absenteeism among staff creates situations that provoke abuse. Aides may use restraints to control patients, pinch or slap them. More often abuse is more subtle and psychological.Federal government and states have established vigilant rules in an attempt to protect patients.Greatest protection against abuse in nursing homes is presence of an “Ombudsman program”.Serve as watchdogs, monitor the quality of care in nursing homes by investigating complaints by families and residents against facilities.