books by Karl Pillemer     books:     Karl Pillemer      The Nursing Assistant's Survival Guide Dr. Karl Pillemer, Martin Schumacher, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 1999 Most Helpful Book I've Ever Read! I've been a CNA for about 2 years, and really, really liked this book. The section on angry residents is particularly useful! Its rare to find a book that really seems like it understands what we CNAs have to go through!             Family Members Survival Guide: What Every Relative of a Nursing Home Resident Needs to Know (10 Pack) Karl Pillemer, Rhoda Meador, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 The Family Member's Survival Guide includes short chapters on Welcoming the New Resident, Keeping an Eye on Nutrition, Dealing with Dementia, and more. Designed to distribute widely to residents' families, this booklet can be a significant step. With this booklet you'll be able to: Ease the natural anxieties of families and other loved ones, ...             Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family Auburn House, 1986 This volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators.             Solving the Frontline Crisis in Long-term Care: A Practical Guide to Finding and Keeping Quality Nursing ... Karl Pillemer Delmar Cengage Learning, 1996 This resource is full of practical tips for creating a stable and loyal frontline caregiving staff. Based on over a decade of original research, this Special Report examines the industry-wide problem of recruitment and retention in all its complexity, and shows you how to solve it in your facility! As we move into the 21st century, the long-term ...             The Resident Assistant's Survival Guide Karl Pillemer, Rhoda Meador, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 With simple, no-nonsense language and lighthearted illustrations, The Resident Assistant's Survival Guide gives your caregivers step-by-step tips on how to handle specific, often difficult, problems like: getting along with others as a team, being a good communicator, managing job stress, dealing with death on the job, relating to family members, ...             CNA Mentoring Made Easy: Everything You Need to Run a Successful Peer Mentoring Program (Pretest Clinical ... Karl Pillemer, Rhoda Meador, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 Based on best practices and field-tested in hundreds of facilities, this book will help train, orient, and support your new CNAs; give your veteran CNAs added status and responsibility; and REDUCE your turnover! You don't need additional staff or a big budget to kick-off or maintain a CNA mentoring program. CNA Mentoring Made Easy has everything ...             Social Integration in the Second Half of Life The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 Social scientists use the term social integration to refer to individuals' connections with others in their environments. The concept and its consequences have been the subject of considerable study. Many researchers have asserted that meaningful and enduring ties to other persons serve as a buffer against stress, and thereby promote physical and ...             Abuse-Proofing Your Facility: A Practical Guide for Preventing Abuse in Long-Term Care Facilities Karl Pillemer, Diane A. Menio, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 Can't happen here? Think again. Resident abuse can happen in any long-term care facility. Abuse is shocking, heartbreaking, and costly. It is also preventable. This book shows how long-term care administrators can take steps NOW to dramatically lessen the potential for resident abuse in their facilities. Based on research into the real nature ...             Leading the Way: The Busy Nurse's Guide to Supervision in Long-Term Care Karl Pillemer, Rhoda Meador Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 Leading the Way, written by a team of experts in management and in long-term care, is an easy-to-read mini-handbook that takes the mystery out of management. Appropriate for the new charge nurse or the veteran supervisor, this 50-page straight-talking book covers such invaluable topics as: the essentials of leadership and team-building, the ...             Intergenerational Ambivalences, Volume 4: New Perspectives on Parent-Child Relations in Later Life ... JAI Press, 2003 This book is an in-depth, cutting-edge report on the intergenerational ambivalence perspective: an innovative framework for understanding parent-adult child relationships that has emerged from work in several disciplines such as sociology, psychology, history, and family therapy in the US and Europe over the past ten years. It is an excellent ...             Expert Cna's Illustrated Guide To Documentation Pack of 10 Rhoda Meador, Martin Schumacher, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 This booklet is intended for distribution to your entire frontline staff. It is focused on changing staff behaviors that sometimes compromise the quality of care they provide. Written in a punchy and entertaining style, with illustrations based on the real daily life of a CNA, this booklet addresses one of the most critical caregiving issues. ...             CNA Career Ladder Made Easy: Everything you Need to Run a Successful Career Ladder Program Karl Pillemer, Rhoda Meador, ... Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001 Instead of a career, most CNAs are offered a locked-in, no-growth job which almost ensures that they will eventually move on to something else. A career ladder program, on the other hand, offers them a sense of pride and feeling of professionalism in their position. If your facility invests the time and energy, this program will help you reduce ...             WORKFORCE ISSUES IN LONG-TERM CARE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Aging KARL PILLEMER, MARK S. LACHS Macmillan Reference USA, 2002 As the Baby Boomers head toward retirement, the four-volume ?Encyclopedia of Aging? offers a timely resource encompassing all aspects of aging. Covering a variety of disciplines?biology, medicine, economics, law, psychology, sociology and history?the Encyclopedia also explores related issues such as religion, spirituality, and ethics.             Parent-child Relations Throughout Life Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991 The study of parent-child relationships has long been of interest to behavioral scientists, both for its theoretical importance and for its practice and policy implications. There are, however, certain limitations to the knowledge in this area. First, research on parents and children is spread throughout a number of disciplines and as a ...             GUIA DE Supervivencia de los Asistentes de Enfermeria 10-pack Karl Pillemer Delmar Thomson Learning, 2004          products you might be interested in search for books abuse-proofing, ambivalences, documentation, intergenerational, parent-child, supervivencia      toavi.com    web we recommend Most Helpful Book I've Ever Read! randomly chosen book: Heirate mich!