Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care: The Blending of Traditional Practice with Cooperative Strategies

by Rosengarten; Lucille

• ISBN13: 9780789007469
• ISBN10: 0789007460
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000156720
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Social Work in Geriatric Home Health Care stresses to social workers, other health care professionals, administrators, and policy makers, that social workers, working cooperatively and maintaining well documented and efficiently delivered case management, can keep frail elderly safely at home. Based on the author's twenty-five years of social work experinece in geriatric home care case management, you will explore improved ways to organize home health care by use of cooperative strategies, and by privileging the social work role.

Author Biography

Lucy Rosengarten, ACSW, BCD, is Founder and Executive Manager of Concerned Home Managers for the Elderly, COHME, Inc., and is a member of the Social Work Faculty of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Helen Rehr
Introduction	1	(4)
PART I: HINTS OF A NEW KIND OF CASE MANAGEMENT IN TRADITIONAL HOSPITAL-BASED HOME HEALTH CARE	5	(44)
The Dying Marriage Counselor: A Poor Family in Crisis	7	(10)
The Overwhelmed Attorney: A Wealthy Family in Crisis	17	(8)
The Eccentric Artist: The Filial Role in Home Care for the Frail Elderly	25	(8)
Elderly Home Care Clients: Maintaining Purpose in Life	33	(4)
Caregivers and Their Ill Spouses: Creating a Health-Promoting Group for Elderly Couples in a Hospital Home Health Care Program	37	(12)
Principles of Health-Promoting Group Formation	38	(1)
Forming the Group	39	(6)
Fitting In	45	(1)
Later Activities	45	(1)
Unfinished Business	46	(1)
Implications and Observations	46	(3)
PART II: COOPERATIVE HOME CARE IN COMMUNITY-BASED AGENCIES	49	(24)
Aspects of Cooperative Home Care for the Elderly in Bologna, Italy	51	(8)
Cadial	52	(7)
COHME's First In-Service on Cooperativism	59	(14)
Situations Taken from Aides' Problems	67	(1)
Staff Situations in the Office	68	(3)
Replies from Everyone at the General Meeting	71	(2)
PART III: USING COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES---SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND SUPERVISION OF HOME HEALTH AIDES	73	(24)
Training Aides to Care for Dementia Clients	75	(4)
Training Aides to Work in Cluster Care with the Newly Dependent Elderly	79	(12)
Dependency	79	(2)
Training Aides to Care for the Newly Dependent Elderly	81	(1)
Edited Text of In-Service Program: Residence Director's Remarks to Home Health Aides	82	(3)
Cluster Care Confidentiality	85	(1)
Compassion	85	(1)
Edited Vignettes: Breaking the Ice and Introducing Techniques	86	(3)
Conclusions	89	(2)
Developing Trusting Relationships Between White Clients and Black Aides	91	(6)
Results Obtained from the Videotape	93	(1)
Symposium Discussion	93	(2)
Conclusions	95	(2)
PART IV: COHME'S APPROACH TO GERIATRIC CASE MANAGEMENT	97	(24)
Principles of Cohme's Case Management	99	(16)
Geriatric Case Management	100	(1)
Range of Services Provided by Professional Geriatric Case Managers	101	(4)
Contributors to Case Management	105	(3)
Case Study Illustrating Aspects of Skilled Case Management	108	(3)
Controversies in the Case Management Field	111	(2)
New Directions	113	(2)
Teaching the Uses of the Cohme One-Sheet	115	(6)
Presentation	115	(4)
Concluding Thoughts	119	(2)
Index	121