What is new in 2010
Assisted Living Series
Mental Health Documentation in the Nursing Home
Practical Psychiatry in the Long Term Care Home: A Handbook for Staff
Psychiatry in Long Term Care
Assisted Living Series
Diabetes Management for the Older Adult
Diabetes is a common condition among older adults. It is estimated that almost 30 percent of persons living in Assisted Living Communities (ALC) have diabetes. If the diabetes is not carefully managed and monitored, complications may occur that often leads to hospitalization. When individuals are unable to manage their diabetes care and insulin regimen or their diabetes care by themselves and/or by the staff in ALCs, they are transferred to a skilled nursing facility.
AMDA has created a training program and toolkit for ALC staff as well as family caregivers to help them care for older adults with diabetes. Our goal is to keep these older persons with diabetes in the most independent living environment possible. Following the recommendations and using the tools in this kit, can provide both a high quality living situation, as well as a safe environment for the older adult with diabetes.
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Product Code: ALDIAB
Member Price: $85
Non-Member Price: $110
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Assisted Living Series
Caregivers Communication Guide: Protocols for Change of Condition
It is essential that caregivers recognize and report a change of condition, especially a sudden one, in older adults. A change of condition means that there is something going on that is not usual for them. Often these changes of condition, if not noticed and quickly acted upon, result in adverse outcomes, resulting in hospitalization or discharge from the Assisted Living Center (ALC) to a skilled nursing facility.
Many times older adults experience small changes that may not be noticed unless the caregiver knows what to look for. Knowing what to look for and what to report can help the Primary Care Practitioner take better care of the older adult. Missing those small changes and not reporting them may cause problems for the older adult. This guide demonstrates organized ways to recognize a change of condition and ways to report changes to the PCP. This guide is intended for use by the caregivers of older adults. While it is best suited for caregivers within an Assisted Living Community (ALC), it can be adapted for family caregivers as well.
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Product Code: CCG
Member Price: $45
Non-Member Price: $65
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Assisted Living Series - Medication Management
Part I - Medication Management Manual: Operations Level
The purpose of this medication manual is to provide practitioners and staff in Assisted Living Communities (ALCs) with information and tools that will help them to improve medication management and reduce medication errors. This manual is intended as a guide for best practice. By using the tools in this medication manual, users will be better equipped to:
- Identify both real and potential medication problems;
- Improve systems and processes of care related to medication management;
- Improve systems and processes related to the coordination and delivery of medications;
- dentify actual and potential ADRs;
- Reduce human errors such as illegible handwriting and missing or nonexistent documentation;
- Enhance decision-making skills of the staff with regard to residents who are capable of self-administering medications;
- Conduct and document performance evaluation of caregivers who administer medications or provide assistance with medications; and
- Reduce medication errors that occur during transitions of care and practitioner visits by using a medication reconciliation form and practitioner order forms.
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Product Code: ALMM1
Member Price: $100
Non-Member Price: $125
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Assisted Living Series - Medication Management
Part II - Assisted Living Management of Medications: A Manual for Caregivers
This guide was written to help caregivers learn the best ways to manage medications taken by residents in Assisted Living Communities (ALCs). The guide will help caregivers learn skills and steps that can be used to better manage residents’ medications. Caregivers will be able to talk about medication(s) with their residents, family members, and primary care practitioners (PCP) (See Definitions). Learning how to manage medications can:
- Help avoid errors.
- Help the caregiver, the resident, and family members know when a medication does not have the effect that it should have.
- Help the caregiver, the resident, and family members know when a medication might be causing a side effect or an ADE/R that could hurt the resident.
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Product Code: ALMMII
Member Price: $85
Non-Member Price: $110
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Mental Health Documentation in the Nursing Home
A web-based, downloadable monograph created to assist primary care physicians (medical directors and attending physicians) in documenting mental health issues as required by law. Content is organized to walk physicians through five specific stages of mental health documentation: preadmission; admission; at times of cognitive/behavioral/mood changes; monitoring processes once an intervention has been implemented; and, clinical and regulatory documentation necessary when residents are placed on psychoactive medications. It provides sample data-gathering collection tools and templates, and sample forms to record decisions on and monitoring use of psychoactive medications.
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Product Code: MHD1
Member Price: $20.00
Non - Member Price: $35.00
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Practical Psychiatry in the Long Term Care Home: A Handbook for Staff
3rd completely revised and expanded edition 2007; David K. Conn, Nathan Herrmann, Alanna Kaye, Dmytro Rewilak, Barbara Schogt (Editors). Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. 328 pages, hardcover
This is a practical book, aimed at providing training and guidance for staff members in long term care facilities. Content is practical, understandable, clinically relevant, user friendly, and jargon free, with the goal to help staff understand and solve the wide range of psychiatric and behavioral problems which are encountered on a day-to-day basis. Numerous clinical case illustrations are presented along with practical management strategies. The material is invaluable for nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists, and occupational therapists. Frontline health care aides, supervisors, and administrators will also find the information useful.
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Product Code: PSY-STAFF
Member Price: $50.00
Non - Member Price: $56.00
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Psychiatry in Long Term Care
Second edition 2009; William E. Reichman, Paul R. Katz (Editors). Oxford University Press. 527 pages, hardcover
This edition of Psychiatry in Long Term Care is an important resource for care providers from all disciplines devoted to improving the well-being of people with mental health disorders living in long term care facilities. Content presents a comprehensive review of the major psychiatric disorders affecting long term care residents and incorporates methods for physician identification and treatment of these disorders. Clinical guidelines on specific disorders include reviews of contemporary strategies for successful psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions and are complemented by chapters on medicolegal considerations, ethics, and education of care staff.
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Product Code: PSY-LTC
Member Price: $60.00
Non - Member Price: $70.00
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