Home Health Care Provider: A Guide to Essential Skills

This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond standard nurses' aide training manuals, the book focuses on the psycho-social needs of home care recipients, stressing the need to maintain the house as a home and sustaining the recipient's way of life throughout caregiving situations. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills that benefit recipient and caregiver, creating a systematic, easy-to-follow plan for delivering quality service and maintaining, or improving, quality of life.

About the Author

Emily Prieto, MBA, LSW, works in nursing homes and an adult day care center. Independently, she offered social work consulting to nursing homes in Central Ohio. In 2001, she started 2nd Watch Senior Care, a business that provides non-medical, companion and errand services to older adults living in the community.