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    100 Things Your Elder Care Provider Wants You To Know
    100 Things Your Elder Care Provider Wants You To Know
    100 Things Your Elder Care Provider Wants You To Know
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    100 Things Your Elder Care Provider Wants You To Know

    By Suzy Right

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    100 suggestions made by one elder care provider, with 20 years experience in the field! One of 4 ebooks about quality elder care, written by Suzy Right, who has cared for about 50 elders! Caring for elders' broad range of needs plus interacting with family members is both art and science. After encouragement by friends and associates to 'write it down,' to give concerned consumers a good 'road map' of how to build and maintain satisfactory working relationships with their care providers, Suzy wrote a series of 4 easy-to-read ebooks to spur a national discussion of what makes quality elder care-- how to find it, and how to perform it-- while working in this strenuous, albeit, immensely rewarding vocation! Enjoy reading all of Suzy Right's ebooks about quality elder care. Along with her other titles!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzy Right
    Release dateDec 22, 2013
    ISBN9781311360748
    100 Things Your Elder Care Provider Wants You To Know
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    Suzy Right

    Suzy Right is a lifelong writer, starting out as a child pecking out stories on her grandmother’s typewriter in the attic. After writing throughout college and grad school, Suzy blogged, then produced quick-read e-books about elder care. Returning to her first love, story-telling, Suzy has written three screen plays and her first novel, A House In Flames. Look for more Suzy Right stories coming soon!

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      100 Things Your Elder Care Provider Wants You To Know - Suzy Right

      Introduction

      A growing number of families need quality care for their elders. Quality is enhanced by nurturing the working relationships between elders, the family and care providers. Communicating what services are needed is equally as important as communicating insights about services rendered to others in need. It is the ebb and flow of relationships between elders, the family and care-providers.

      As an elder care provider with 20 years experience, the best care-providers I know ‘read’ their clients, anticipating their needs like TV’s beloved character, Radar O’Reilly, from MASH. They are attentive, proactive & responsive, and graceful under pressure: having empathy for others as well as the situation. Quality elder-care is the ultimate relationship-building vocation between elders, families and care-providers. Done right, elder care-providers enable quality time for families and elders to simply be together.

      Elder care typically consists of personal care (bathing, grooming, hair care, etc.,) meal planning (nutrition planning, preparing, presentation, etc.,) social interaction (family visits, friends, church, neighbors, etc.,) and light housekeeping—plus keeping elders safe and comfortable with genuine companionship-- and possibly, helping families cope with end-of-life care.

      Elder care can vary between daily blocks of a few hours to 24/7 care. Care may start with one schedule for a few specific tasks, and expand into other tasks and full-time care schedules altogether. The key is flexibility on all sides. Elder care is a negotiation based upon needs and wants between the elder, the family and care providers. In any case, elder care providers collaborate with families, making elder care a mutually beneficial, team vocation: providing quality care to the elder; alleviating some of the demands upon the family; and providing satisfaction to the care provider for helping others while earning a fair wage. In order to achieve these objectives, elder care is about effective communication to build and maintain working relationships-- and the purpose of this e-book.

      Elder care is a balancing act between doing for others and encouraging others to stay active and engaged, in the swim of life. The goal is not dependency, but self-reliance as much as possible. This is both art and science: in know-how, agility and, yes— to love thy neighbor. The care providers I have been privileged to know say that this working relationship satisfies a basic desire to help others. But each individual relationship takes time to develop its rhythm: personalities must ‘fit,’ as with

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